The SKOLKOVO Fund and state Corporation "Rosatom" launch a joint business accelerator

The main goal of the business accelerator is to develop the best innovative projects in the priority areas of non-nuclear business development of the Rosatom state Corporation. The business accelerator should not only help you find and effectively Finance the development and launch of new products, but also identify the most promising technologies for priority investment in the development of new businesses.

The selection of promising projects in the business accelerator will be carried out in several areas:

Metallurgy;
TEK;
Incineration plants and waste processing technologies;
Additive technologies.

The selection of projects will start on may 29, 2020 and will last until June 22, 2020. Based on the results of the subject examination, 30 projects will be selected. Among them, the industry expertise of representatives of Rosatom state Corporation will select 10 projects to participate in the acceleration program, which will last from June 29, 2020 to August 31, 2020.

You can apply for participation in the accelerator on the website: https://rosatom.sk.ru/.

As part of the acceleration program, it is planned to:

conducting face-to-face mentoring sessions with industry experts;
development of technical, technological and product solutions;
weekly tracking meetings with project teams;
working with industry experts and experts of the SKOLKOVO Foundation.

After the completion of the acceleration program, a DemoDay will be held where the winners of the selection will be selected based on the results of the face-to-face presentation of the projects to the jury.

Stanislav Krechetov, General Director of TVEL-KC JSC: "the Goal of Rosatom state Corporation is to develop new non-nuclear business lines. This is why we are very different from other business accelerators. Our main task is to find business ideas for joint implementation and scaling. Now we are working on the main goal-to increase revenue in new business areas from new products."

Alexey Belyakov, Vice President and Executive Director of the SKOLKOVO Foundation's advanced manufacturing technologies Cluster: "the SKOLKOVO Foundation has a long history of partnership with Rosatom structures both in developing new businesses of the state Corporation and in interacting with startups. In this light, continuing to work with the Industry accelerator of the Rosatom state Corporation is a logical development of the partnership with SKOLKOVO. We hope that within the framework of the program, the business accelerator and the program participants will form partnerships that will allow them to successfully develop their business in new markets for high-tech products."

Reference information

The SKOLKOVO Foundation is a non-profit organization created on the initiative of the President of the Russian Federation in September 2010. The goal of the Foundation is to create an ecosystem that is conducive to the development of entrepreneurship and research in the fields of energy efficiency and energy conservation, nuclear, space, biomedical, strategic computer technologies and software. The Fund is responsible for managing The SKOLKOVO Innovation center, which is regulated by a special law that provides special economic conditions for startups that have passed a special external technological expertise (now there are more than 1,900 of them). In 2018, the revenue of the companies participating in SKOLKOVO amounted to 91.9 billion rubles, and the total revenue for 9 years of the project's existence reached 301.1 billion rubles. Startups employ 33,000 people. More than 1300 developments and technological solutions have been patented. An important part of The SKOLKOVO ecosystem is the research University-SKOLKOVO Institute of science and technology (Skoltech), which was established and operates with the support of the Massachusetts Institute of technology. The construction of the infrastructure of the IC SKOLKOVO at the expense of the Federal budget has been completed (a Technopark, University, Gymnasium, road and engineering infrastructure have been built). More than 600 thousand square meters of objects were put into operation. This figure will double in the next 3 years.

Website: www.sk.ru.
Rosatom state Corporation is one of the global technology leaders, a multi-profile holding that combines assets in the energy, engineering, and construction sectors. It is one of the ten largest companies in Russia. With expertise in all parts of the nuclear fuel cycle, Rosatom ranks first in the world in terms of its portfolio of foreign projects, with 36 power units in 12 countries at various stages of implementation. Rosatom is the largest electricity producer in Russia, providing over 19% of the country's energy needs. Rosatom's activities also include the production of equipment and isotope products for the needs of nuclear medicine, scientific research, materials science, digital products, and the production of various nuclear and non-nuclear innovative products. Rosatom's strategy is to develop low-carbon generation projects, including wind power. Rosatom state Corporation unites more than 350 enterprises and organizations, employing a total of about 250 thousand people.