ANNUAL REPORT 2О11 ANNUAL IN THE FIRST REPORT 2011 PERSON Official Address of the Foundation’s President Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce the publication of the Skolkovo Foundation first Annual Report 2 Our history dates back to the beginning of 2010, and We have attracted venture investments into the proj- today we are summarizing the results of our work for ect: in 2011, accreditation with Skolkovo was obtained this whole period. Undoubtedly, we are at the begin- by 24 venture funds with the total amount of obliga- ning of our long path, since the Foundation is building tions exceeding 10 billion rubles. from scratch an innovation centre with global impact. Late 2011 – early 2012 have confirmed the viability However, the main achievements of 2011 make it and efficiency of the innovation ecosystem we are possible for us to assert that we have succeeded in creating: the first stories of Skolkovo’s success have laying a foundation, setting up a platform for realizing begun to be born. Skolkovo’s participant Rock Flow our mission, which is creation of the ecosystem favor- Dynamics signed an agreement with one of the larg- able for promotion of entrepreneurship and research. est American independent oil companies on selling First, this applies to development and implementation licenses to its latest product — software for oil and of all necessary procedures for awarding the status gas fields simulation in the USA. Another Skolkovo of a Skolkovo Project participant: by the end of 2011, participant, Vist Group, is planning on IPO on the In- the number of innovative companies that received the novations and Investments Market at MICEX (MICEX status of Project participants exceeded 330. This is by MII). Parallels, another Skolkovo participant, has far more than we expected. Today, 1,600 applicants embarked on marketing its solution - Parallels Auto- are awaiting this status. The amount of applications for mation for Cloud Infrastructure (PACI) - which was participation in the Project is snowballing. developed with the help of the Foundation’s grant. In 2011, we developed and introduced grant On April 27 of 2012, Skolkovo’s participant Center of procedure, which made it possible for 70 companies Innovative Development STM (involved in designing working in Skolkovo to receive grants for implementa- hybrid locomotives of the new generation) success- tion of their innovative projects. In 2012, we expect the fully launched its first locomotive at the Riga Railway amount of grantees to double. The total value of grant Station in Moscow. In April, Skolkovo’s participant financing that we are planning to distribute in 2012 will GazokhimTekhno signed a joint-venture agreement amount to 6 billion rubles. with Oil Company Rosneft OJSC. The joint venture Besides developing processes and mechanisms will be involved in designing and constructing a that ensure the efficient functioning of the Skolkovo plant for processing natural and oil-well gas into a Project, in 2011, we also set up the main institutes of synthetic hydrocarbon blend. Skolkovo’s participant the innovation ecosystem. In the end of October of DisplAir signed an agreement with a Skolkovo-ac- 2011, the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technol- credited investor that is going to invest USD 1 million ogy was incorporated (SkTech). Technopark Skolkovo in setting up production of the interactive air screen, was founded and started operating. The Intellectual a device that can project high-resolution 3D images Property Center was established; it assists the Project in the air. participants in protecting their intellectual property The results of the past year and, first and foremost, rights. In July 2011, the Customs and Finance Com- the specific examples of commercialization of research pany (TFK Skolkovo) was founded. Its main task is results of various companies that have been Project to provide a customs representative’s services to the participants for a short time, inspire in me confidence Project participants. The amount of investments into that we are able to resolve the task set before us. I am the Project is an important achievement of 2011. The confident that we can create the innovation ecosystem Foundation received almost 3.5 billion rubles from pri- that will comprise hundreds of most advanced and vate sources; out of them almost 2 billion rubles were promising innovative technologies, ensure their devel- invested into development of the participants’ projects opment, and allow us to promote new and absolutely and 1.5 billion rubles were spent on SkTech funding. unique products on the Russian and international Large business companies came to believe in Skolko- markets. Although the Innovation Centre has been vo’s success; among them are the world’s industrial operating fully for only 3-4 years, the trends of its giants Siemens, IBM, Nokia, Ericsson, EADS, Cisco, operations that we see today are encouraging! May we and many others. In 2011, we signed agreements with all succeed in this endeavor! 13 major Russian and Western companies with the pur- pose of setting up R&D centers in the precincts of the Victor Vekselberg Skolkovo Centre, with the total budget of over 13 billion President rubles and estimated staff of 1,100 people. Skolkovo Foundation 3 ANNUAL REPORT 2011 Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Skolkovo Is a Capital of Innovations 6 Chronicle of Main Events 8 Mission 12 Strategic goals 14 Skolkovo Territory 18 Technopark 22 Innocity 32 RESULTS Research 44 Cluster of Energy Efficient Technologies 46 Nuclear Technologies Cluster 50 Space Technologies and Telecommunications Cluster 54 Biomedical Technologies Cluster 58 Information Technologies Cluster 62 44 68 Project Participants 72 Skolkovo Partners Skolkovo Institute of Science 76 and Technology (SkTech) 84 Skolkovo Open University 90 Skolkovo School Financial Results 94 Overview REFERENCE BOOK 104 Skolkovo in the News Project Participants: Rules of Application, Benefits, 108 Advantages 114 Grant Financing Management of the 116 Foundation 120 Committees and Councils 122 Prospects 126 Contacts and Information 555 ANNUAL EXECUTIVE REPORT 2011 SUMMARY Skolkovo Is a Capital Russia is building Skolkovo Is Knowledge-Based Economy a new city Construction of new cities and towns scientific and educational unit consisting where scholars, always involved a qualitative leap in of the Skolkovo Institute of Science the national culture’s development. and Technology, the Open University designers, Skolkovo is a breakthrough into the and the Skolkovo School will ensure future. The main asset of this city is not integration of education, science, engineers, and its geographic location or its vicinity and research, while engaging young businessmen to the raw material resources, but its scholars and engineers into innovation unique innovation ecosystem capable activity aimed at yielding economic together with of attracting scientists, engineers, results. students, and investors. Technologies developed in Skolkovo young researchers The Skolkovo Project comprises are called to modernize the industry in will develop development of Technopark, a its most promising sectors. Information, university complex, and the city itself. medicine, energy-efficiency, nuclear and and implement Technopark will provide the innovators space technologies were singled out as with all the necessary services and the priority technologies of today. The innovative projects utilities needed for their technological Innovation City itself will be born as a with global impact. assets and corporate structures. The result high technologies application. 6 of innovations Skolkovo Is Where Innovations Meet With Investments The Skolkovo Foundation is aimed at Any talent needs support and the Foundation provides comprehensive creating a state-of-the-art scientific and environment where talents are in financial and organizational support technological complex operating on the demand. Innovators need funding, to hundreds of advanced innovative 4E principles: energy efficiency, ecological and investors look for promising projects. compatibility, ergonomics, and economic projects. The market offers venture- The Innovation City is still under efficiency. The city infrastructure will financing mechanisms aimed to construction, but it is already operating. provide maximum convenience with the search for innovative technologies. Naturally, this is a long-term project. minimum resources spent. Finally, the Skolkovo’s advantage lies in its Although it is at its initial stage, it urban environment will create conditions complex cumulative approach. It is has proven to be viable. It is already for development and commercialization an incubator of technologies where attracting investors, scientists, and of innovative technologies. Creation of appropriate conditions for development implementers who are eager to grasp the urban environment that is attractive and implementation of innovations are new opportunities. In Skolkovo, to investors and innovators is a very created. renowned high-tech companies set up ambitious city-planning task. Such Despite the fact that it has been their representative offices; professors environment should have attractive only two years since President of the world’s major technological technical conditions and amenities, as well Dmitry Medvedev unveiled the institutes find work; and venture as stimulating intellectual atmosphere. Innocity initiative, today, the Skolkovo investors look for investment projects. 7 ANNUAL EXECUTIVE REPORT 2011 SUMMARY