TOMSK, Jun 26 – RIA Tomsk. Participants of the territorial innovative cluster Smart Technologies Tomsk developed a "road map", which will be provided to the Ministry of Economic Development (MED) in July; the main direction – is dialogue between innovative companies with universities and leading accelerators, the innovation portal of the Tomsk region reports on Monday.
Earlier it was reported that SMART Technologies Tomsk was included in the number of 11 clusters which are within the framework of the project "Development of Innovative Clusters — Leaders of World-class Investment Appeal" (aimed to increase the competitiveness in the world market) will be supported by the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.
"Representatives of the enterprises made proposals to the "roadmap" for creating the interface for direct interaction between universities and companies, as well as for holding PR-actions to develop the brand of the Smart Technologies Tomsk cluster abroad ... In July, the "road map"... will be submitted for consideration to the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation", - is said in the statement.
It is explained that the development of the "road map" was conducted in the directions of "Innovative medicines", "Technical vision", "Arctic" and "Industrial robotics". When developing the document, the CEO of the IFAR company Veniamin Khazanov expressed the opinion about the need to develop partnership with the leading foreign accelerators for the fastest output of the cluster's products to the global markets.Representatives of universities raised the issue of the need of training seminars on projects packaging on the format of the National Technical Initiative. They also proposed to create intra-cluster business cafe in Tomsk, develop network educational programs in Tomsk universities and from the budget compensate to the companies costs for research and development, ordered by universities and scientific organizations.
SMART Technologies Tomsk - is the direct heir of the cluster "Pharmaceuticals, Medical Equipment and Information Technologies of the Tomsk region". Within the framework of the cluster 11 prospective markets were identified. Among them - are technical vision, telemedicine, industrial robotics, probiotics, pharmaceutical ingredients. Since 2017, the cluster companies will begin to promote their products in these markets.