Winners of the Youth Innovation Projects Competition
The best innovative projects of young scientists of the Russian Federation have been identified
i-russiaDNA diagnostics of infectious and hereditary diseases, alternative energy, new materials science technologies are among the main winning projects of the All–Russian Competition for the Support of Youth Innovation Projects organized by the National Association of Innovation and Development of Information Technologies (NAIRIT) with the support of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Its results were summed up on Tuesday, March 1, in Moscow.
Thus, 59 projects received grants in the amount of 150 thousand to 1.5 million rubles. In total, 2,518 applications were submitted to the competition, in which scientific groups and creative teams of young people under the age of 35 were invited to participate – 335 of them were rejected due to non-compliance with formal requirements. Of the total number of accepted projects, 1,375 were at the stage of an innovative idea, 655 were at the startup stage. And 153 – at the stage of development of the company.
The largest number of works were devoted to energy-saving technologies (28 percent). Innovations in the field of medicine interested 26 percent of young researchers. The development of information and nuclear technologies was considered in 24 and 4 percent of the projects, respectively; 5 percent of the work was devoted to innovations in the telecommunications of the space industry. The greatest interest in the competition was shown by university staff (39 percent of projects).
36 percent of the papers were accepted from young scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Commercial companies and independent developers submitted 16 and 9 percent of applications, respectively. According to the Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician Sergey Aldoshin, who was present at the award ceremony, in many respects the fact that the Academy does not take a leading position in this case is due to the fact that serious innovative technologies created within the walls of the Russian Academy of Sciences can hardly be implemented through 217-FZ.
"Last year, more than 700 small enterprises were established at universities. And only 13 are in the Russian Academy of Sciences," Aldoshin noted. – Yesterday we met with representatives of Rusnano, directors of academic institutions and the Commission on Innovation and Intellectual Property and discussed the existing problems. The directors expressed strong concerns about the Federal Law: how can the intellectual property of large developments of national importance be legally transferred to commercial companies?"
Recall that the competition was held in two stages. At the first stage, the jury selected projects that best meet such criteria as the relevance and novelty of the work, its practical significance and the current level of development. At the second stage, in which 175 projects participated, those whose authors were able to offer the most optimal and effective conditions for their implementation were selected from the total number of works.
Most of the winners are works dedicated to innovations in the field of medical technologies (17 projects). As noted by the director of the Institute of Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician Igor Sokolov, who headed the jury of the competition, although 59 innovative projects are not many, "the gap between the winners and the "non–winners" is only one point on a ten-point scale." According to NAIRIT President Olga Uskova, "this victory in the competition will be the first step for young innovators on their way to becoming successful innovative entrepreneurs."
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