Oxford University’s commercialization office showed interest in nine innovative projects from Tomsk and Novosibirsk

Under the agreement for commercialization of Russian inventions in the foreign markets among the Tomsk Region Administration, Rusnano and Isis Innovation (a subsidiary of the University of Oxford), nine projects potentially interesting for foreign partners were selected.

According to Aleksey Stukanov, Head of the Region Department for International and Regional Relations, they were selected among 27 competitors. "The projects which are not on the list will win anyway," he says. "All applications were thoroughly analyzed by an international team of experts. The firms will be able to learn lessons from this assessment, correct their mistakes and modify their development path accordingly."

The projects selected by Isis include seven projects from Tomsk and two projects from Novosibirsk. Both Novosibirsk projects were submitted by Sigma. They are micro-arc coating for the associated gas reactor and new grades of bearing cast iron.

Tomsk innovative company NIOST is represented by two inventions. Isis experts are convinced that it is possible to franchise the methodology of one of the inventions (non-catalyzed HNBR elastomer treatment) to other companies in the global market. As for the other invention (new dicyclopentadiene polymerization processes), there is a plan to investigate the possibilities to make contacts with foreign partners.

Among other projects selected by Oxford experts are nano-powders for fingerprinting developed by the Tomsk Polytechnic University which have already been positively rated by Russian experts. Isis says there are several potential customers for this technology in Europe. Microwave circuit testing and optimization software developed by an innovative company from Tomsk ELLIKS can be attractive for telecommunications companies.

Isis will also continue to work with Tomsk projects such as Emission (oil exploration based on electromagnetic radiation from the surface), Bio Eco (formaldehyde-free glue in wood board production) and Elcom+ (software for Motorola radio sets).

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