NUCLEAR

TECHNOLOGIES

CLUSTER

Skolkovo, 2014

SKOLKOVO INNOVATION CENTER – INNOVATION-PURPOSED

ENVIRONMENT JUST OUTSIDE OF MOSCOW

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The Innovation Center will occupy 389 ha

just 3 km West of Moscow Automobile

Ring (part of the “New Moscow”)

At the basis of the architectural concept –

mixed-purpose quarters – living and

office/labs area put together.

TARGET HIGHLIGHTS

Area - 400 ha

9 300 residents

5 700 highly-paid research-oriented

workplaces

26 000 working places

5 100 students and university

research stuff

2014 г. – completion of the first

construction phase

SKOLKOVO INNOVATION CENTER AND NUCLEAR CLUSTER.

BALANCED-COMPONENTS INFRASTRUCTURE

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Technopark Skolkovo Business School

Science and Technology Institute

Skolkovo Open University

1 000 STARUPS

900 IP RIGHTS REGISTRATION APPLICATIONS IN 2013

$200 MLN.

REVENUE OF STARTUPS

13 000 PPL.

NEW WORKPLACES

$300 MLN.

GRANT FINANCING APPROVED

$550 MLN.

TOTAL VOLUME OF PROJECTS SUPPORTED

INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS – CORNERSTONES OF THE INNOVATION

ENVIRONMENT CONCEPT

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International Companies: Russian Companies :

TECHNOLOGICAL PRIORITIES OF THE NUCEAR CLUSTER

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Plasma generation, nuclear waste management, etc.

Isotopes, laser/plasma/Thz/linacs applications, imaging/NDT, sterilization, coatings, filters, etc.

Nanostructuring, composites, materials engineering, rare earth materials, superconductors, etc.

Accelerations, neutron generation, robotics and automation, sensors/detectors, calibration, etc.

Predictive modeling, extreme environment design, life-time cycle modeling, imaging/visualization, etc.

1. Nuclear science spin-offs

2. Radiation technologies

3. New advanced materials

4. Advanced equipment

5. Engineering technologies

NUCLEAR CLUSTER SNAPSHOT

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27

grants

92

participants

310

applications

1. Nuclear science spin-offs

2. Radiation technologies

3. New advanced materials

4. Advanced machinery technologies

5. Engineering technologies

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25

26

24

3

1

6

11

9

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TECHNOLOGICAL PRIORITIES Participants Grants

Mln Rub

Grants 540

Incl mini-grants 44

Grants co-financing 300

Add. private invest. 270

Partnership agreements with Skolkovo and/or partners of

the Cluster participants

SKOLKOVO PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM

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• Support of R&D, engineering and

commercialization activities through

tailored ecosystem

• Access to hightech competencies,

innovations and infrastructure through

startups, Technopark and Skoltech

• Initial Russian market entry support

package, including spin-offs launch

• GR/PR support from Skolkovo

• Financial resources (grants) in support of

market expansion and technological

project development

• Vertical technological integration

opportunities through startups to MNCs

chain

• Tax benefits

• Russian-foreign companies partnership

platform

• Market insight to effectively manage grant

portfolio and stimulate commercial

acceleration of the participating startups

• Significant physical presence at Skolkovo

sight: people, sq. meters

• Technological foresight and expertise

• Financial commitment to invest into

development of the R&D/engineering

infrastructure

• Mutual PR support

• Significant tangible results of the mutual

cooperation: new technologies, new IP,

financial growth, ecosystem development

• Educational programs and mentoring

SKOLKOVO’S VALUE PROPOSITION SKOLKOVO’S EXPECTATIONS

SKOLKOVO PROJECT PARTICIPANT – REQUIREMENT AND BENEFITS

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Alignment with the

technological priorities

Innovation – a product has no

analogs or exceeds the existing

ones

Team – IP rights, motivation and

entrepreneurship

International exposure of the

project

Readiness to physically move

to Skolkovo territory starting from

2016

Focus on R&D and

commercialization activities

(trade, mass sales over 1 bln rub

and similar are prohibited,)

Tax and custom duties incentives

– Payroll-related social tax reduction (30% to 14%)

– Zero income tax, property tax and VAT

– Reimbursement of the custom duties and import VAT

Access to financial resources and business

development expertise

– Venture capital and business angels network

– Infrastructure and technologies of the industrial partners

Infrastructure access and consulting services

– Technopark infrastructure and offices

– Accounting, tax issues and IP consulting

– Personnel center, simplified visa procedures

– International and national events

– Education, mentoring, etc. (Clusters, Open University,

Skoltech, Technopark)

Opportunity to receive grant financing (see further)*

PARTICIPANT STATUS REQUIREMENTS

PARTICIPANT STATUS BENEFITS

* Applicable only for start-ups and industrial partners spin-offs

GRANT FINANCING PRINCIPLES

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PRINCIPLE OF GRANT FINANCING – FINANCIAL INVESTMENT FROM PRIVATE INVESTORS

Idea

Research

Development

Early stage Early stage

Business plan and research program, market research and fundraising

Idea testing, research completion, laboratory testing

Development, prototype testing and first sales

Production line deployment, profit generation, etc.

up to

up to

up to

up to mln rub

mln rub

mln rub

mln rub ths usd

Grant size Private financing share

ths usd

ths usd

ths usd

150

1 000

5 000

10 000

APPENDIX 1: RUSSIAN INNOVATIVE CLUSTERS — NUCLEAR

TECHNOLOGY COMPETENCE CENTRES

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Saint-Petersburg

Тroitsk

Chernogolovka

Dubna

Оbninsk

Novosibirsk

Тomsk

Sarov

Dimitrovgrad

- The most intense project activity

- Centre with average dynamics of project activity

- Centre with low dynamics of project activity *) Based on number of submitted project applications, 2011-12.

APPENDIX 2: NUCLEAR CLUSTER WORLD-CLASS EXPERT PANEL

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Number of scientific and business experts, working with Cluster's projects in various formats – more than 100

4. Engineering and instrumentation: V.D. Shiltzev, Director of Center for Accelerator Physics, National Accelerator Laboratory Enrico Fermi (U.S.)

2. Advanced Materials: S.L. Dudarev, Program Manager for materials and leader of simulation materials group, the European Atomic Energy Community, the Agency for Atomic Energy of the UK

3. Simulation and Lifecycle Management: L.А. Bolshov, Corresponding Member of RAS (1997), Director of IBRAE RAS state. Prize of the USSR (1988).

5. The spin-off of nuclear science: V.E. Fortov, Member of the Advisory Science Council, the Director of the Joint Institute for High Temperatures of RAS, Academician

1. Radiation technology: Richard Lanza, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Nuclear Engineering, MIT

Bement Arden, Director NSF and NIST (former)

Velikhov Eugeniy Pavlovich, President of Kurchatov Institut, Member of the RAS

Nt Cluster's Board of Experts:

Werner Burkart, Untill 2010 – IAEA Deputy Director

International expertise:

100% areas of the cluster’ foresight are covered by the experts, each foresight area is designated with more than 30 experts *

*) Taking into account the intersection for the experts working in several areas

Panchenko Vladislav Yakovlevich, Director of Institute of Laser and Information Technologies RAS, Member of the RAS

APPENDIX 3:

INDISTRIAL PARTNERS – FORMS OF COOPERATION WITH SKOLKOVO

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Definition Comments

“Partner” Entity involved in project

development

Legal entity aiming to carry R&D activities on

Skolkovo territory. Agreement to establish R&D

Center is executed. Any form of legal entity and

country of residence. As a rule, the head

company of a group.

Opportunity to put R&D

branch* in Skolkovo and get

land permission aside of the

public tender procedure.

“Key partner” Additional status for large

companies

Partner with following characteristics:

$1/0,25 bln of annual revenue of

foreign/Russian companies

30+ employees of the R&D Center within 3

years

100 mln rub of investments during 3 years

Right to sit at the Industrial

Board and influence key

ecosystem decisions.

“R&D Center” Entity involved in project

development

Partner’s subsidiary directly involved in R&D

activity in Skolkovo. Any form of legal entity and

country of residence.

Opportunity to carry on R&D

activities without time limits.

“Partner’s R&D

Center” Project participant

Russian legal entity with Charter corresponding

with the Skolkovo Law requirements. This can be

either R&D Center or its subsidiary.

Tax preferences.

* R&D status of a branch is confirmed by target R&D/General personnel ratio of 60%

APPENDIX 4: PARTICIPANT STATUS PROCEDURE

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APPLICANT SKOLKOVO FOUNDATION EXPERTS*

01

Application

submittion

www.sk.ru

02

Formal criteria assessment

procedure:

Documentation

completeness

Russian legal entity

status

Alignment with the

technological priorities of

the Foundation

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Substance expertise

Theoretical grounds

Significant

competitiveness on the

global scale

Commercialization

potential

Project team with

sufficient experience to

complete the project in

the international

environment

* 10 independent external experts, randomly chosen out of pool of

topic-related expert panel (currently, more than 1000 community-

renowned experts)

Applicant Project participant status

APPENDIX 5: GRANT APPLICATION PROCEDURE

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* 3-6 external independents experts, randomly chosen out of pool of topic-related expert panel (currently, more

than 1000 community-renowned experts)

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Application Grant memorandum Memorandum review Grant committee

Application submission through www.sk.ru

10 days

Foundation decision on acceptance of the application

Grant memorandum submission

90 days (preparation) 10 days (Sk review)

Memorandum completeness check

Internal and external (experts) review of the grant memorandum

~ 1,5 months

Expert approval

Grant committee preparation

2 weeks

Foundation Grant committee decision

APPENDIX 6: Skolkovo Innovation Center – Master Plan

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400 ha of the territory

2 km West of Moscow Ring

More than 2,5 mln sq.m. of multi-purpose buildings

25 000 residents

More than 30 000 commuters daily

D1

D4

D2

Z1 D3

Four mixed-purposed districts, Central Z1 zone

and the green zone – Skolkovo is a unique city

within the Moscow metropolitan area

APPENDIX 7: Skolkovo Innovation Center - Visualization

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