TOMSK, Mar 20 – RIA Tomsk. The delegation of the Embassy of Israel headed by the first secretary Ilay Levi, responsible for economic cooperation, visited the Tomsk region with a working trip on Tuesday as a result of which preliminary agreements on cooperation of Tomsk innovators with "technological greenhouses" of Israel were reached, the correspondent of RIA Tomsk reports.
The delegation of the Embassy of the State of Israel worked in Tomsk on March 20. Members of the delegation participated in a meeting of the round table "Israel – Tomsk: problems of innovative cooperation" and met the Vice Governor on Economy Andrey Antonov and the leaders of the Center of Cluster Development of the Tomsk region.
"We would like to expand interaction between Israeli and Tomsk hi-tech companies. At the moment some companies interact on their own, and we would like to provide them government support as we see high potential in your region", – Levi noted following the results of the meeting.
According to Antonov, one of problems of the Tomsk region within the Scientific and Technological Development Strategy of Russia (STDS) – creation of "factory of startups" in the region. Such experience is available for Israel with its system of "innovative technological greenhouses" (the Israeli business incubators – Ed.).
"We discussed issues of interaction of the Tomsk innovative companies with "technological greenhouses" in detail which are available in Israel. Interaction with these "greenhouses" is very important for entry of the local companies into the international markets to bring competences of the Tomsk companies to the global markets. Our purpose is to build continuous interaction with the Israeli innovative ecosystem", – Antonov told.
The parties agreed about the organization of a trip of representatives of the Tomsk innovative companies to Israel within the planned autumn visit to this country of delegation under the chairmanship of the Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich.
Earlier it was reported that STDS is approved by the Russian President and is directed to formation of a modern control system in the field of science, technologies and innovations. The Tomsk and Novosibirsk regions became pilot regions which will fulfill two different models of its realization. Within the Tomsk model it is the basic large university or association of universities and a startup community around them as a basis for innovative development.