The Skolkovo IP Center and the National Technology Transfer Initiative (NATT) signed a partnership agreement during the international conference Distant & Digital.
The agreement aims to bring together participants in the technology transfer process to build mutually beneficial cooperation and improve the professional level, to promote the creation of favourable conditions for the growth of entrepreneurial activity of developers of applied scientific ideas.
IPC Skolkovo and NATT agreed on the joint implementation of research programs, including remotely and on the basis of high-tech enterprises, development institutions, scientific institutions, educational and scientific-practical events, conferences, seminars, discussions, panel sessions. In addition, this document contributes to the exchange of best industry practices, popularization and promotion of inventive activity and professional technical specialities.
Anton Pushkov, Managing Partner of Skolkovo IP Center: “We highly appreciate the results and potential of our cooperation not only with NATT, but also with the Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent) and the non-state development institute Innopraktika. The most important area of our interaction will be assistance to the participants of the NATT digital platform “National Open Innovation Window” in matters of protection of intellectual property abroad. Participants of the NATT digital platform face urgent tasks in the field of commercialization of intellectual property. CIS Skolkovo can provide them with effective assistance, as it provides innovative companies with a full range of legal and patent services”.
Alexey Filimonov, Executive Director of NATT: “The agreement is aimed at stimulating the creation and legal protection of the results of intellectual activity that are in demand by the business community and the state, as well as, in general, at improving the culture of handling intellectual property in our country. Innovative activity helps to increase the competitiveness of the Russian economy and ensure the growth of the gross domestic product”.
