INOTomsk’2020 presented at Hannover Messe

For the first time after a five years' break a Tomsk Region delegation came to Germany for the world's leading showcase for industrial technology Hannover Messe to present INOTomsk'2020, Tomsk Special Economic Zone of technical innovation type and other projects which make Tomsk Region attractive for "smart investment".

Hannover Messe is held annually. Its participants include companies specializing in new materials, instruments, industrial automation systems, electrical engineering, energy saving technologies; and innovations and technology transfer experts.

The participants from Tomsk preferred not to use a traditional static general overview stand. Rather, they developed individual programs. That approach of targeted delivery of information to potential partners proved effective.

"It is important to take into account that small innovative firms often find it difficult to speak the same language with large business that prefers to deal with finished product," says the Tomsk Region Committee for Science and Innovation Policy. "Innovators normally offer a model, a solution which have not yet been elaborated to the level of mass production. That is when partnership with large business is vitally important."

Four firms from Tomsk received partnership proposals from German companies, which testifies to the fact that Tomsk innovations meet world class standards. Sibpark, resident of the Tomsk SEZ may enter into a joint venture based on a surface finishing technology for measuring equipment produced by a German company. BioEco, another resident of the Tomsk SEZ will supply samples of its eco-friendly furniture glue to four German wood companies for trials. One of those four companies is the flooring division of EGGER International. A laser technology developed by the Tomsk Institute for Atmospheric Optics may find use in measuring equipment produced by a German company. Representatives of the Tomsk Polytechnic University received an offer from Medizintechnik — Entwicklung und Produktion Juke Systemtechnik on joint production and German certification of devices for the determination of a number of biological objects' parameters. Joint research projects in biotechnology and biomedicine are also planned with Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie.

"It is worth noting that the partners who helped us with the individual work programs are our former compatriots currently living in Germany," the Committee says. "We placed our bets on those compatriots who not only speak fluent German but also possess necessary knowledge in various fields of science and in technology transfer matters. That facilitated the selection of potential partners and ensured the maximum effect of the meetings with them."

Background

The concept of the INOTomsk'2020 project was approved by the Government of the Russian Federation on October 6, 2011. The project involves creation of a world class center for education, research, and development in Tomsk by 2020. The key goal of the INOTomsk'2020 project is to focus intellectual resources on seven key areas:

• Continuous multilevel model of education
• Energy saving technologies and equipment for energy intensive industries
• Nanoelectronics and intelligent power electronics
• Nanotechnologies, advanced materials, and development of beam, plasma, and electric discharge technologies
• High tech medicine, medical biotechnologies, and pharmaceutical technologies
• environmental conservation and value-added processing of natural resources
• Nuclear technologies

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