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2nd International Skolkovo Robotics Conference to be held March 1-2 in Moscow

By Frank Tobe | February 10, 2014

By Susan and Mike McFarlane, RobotGuide
Edited by Frank Tobe, The Robot Report
Technopark “Skolkovo”, created in 2010, provides innovative companies participating in the project to
support the development of technology assets, contributing to their establishment in the Russian and global markets.

“Robotics holds a priority place on the Russian Communications and Media Ministry’s list of the most promising IT development lines, which is reflected in the IT Development Strategy prepared by the Ministry and approved by the Russian Government at the end of 2013. Our objective goes far beyond promoting research in this field. What we’ve got to do is to draw the attention of the wider public to robotics proper,” said Mark Shmulevich, Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Media.

In 2013, as part of the Moscow International Forum Open Innovations, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen and French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault took part in a discussion that centered on what governments can do to support innovation. 

Mr Medvedev said, “We have approved a Strategy of Russia’s Innovation Development to 2020 and expect that its implementation will result in innovations adding about one percentage point to our economic growth, starting from 2015. We suggest that innovation activity should be regarded as a positive-sum game, where all participants derive the maximum gain precisely from a strategy of cooperation. There can be no isolationism here, because it leads nowhere.”

Finnish Prime Minister Katainen suggested that hyper-connectedness means that Microsoft has become the symbol of Finnish innovation. Microsoft understood what it was doing when it bought Nokia – investing in a very important sector.
The three nations supported innovative development within their countries and see the importance of working with strategic partners – including other nation states and businesses – in order to support the best innovative development and their growing economies.

Sustainable economic development is often at the mercy of politics, election cycles and alterations in federal investment, all of which effect how dreams can be realised. Those in the room all seemed committed to finding the will to sustain world-beating innovation utilizing their information technology advantage and large talent pool of well-educated young people.

Robohub’s Hallie Siegel attended last year’s event and summarized her visit and the event in a post entitled “Russia looks inward and outward at Moscow’s 2013 Open Innovations Forum.”

Thus the 2014 Skolkovo Robotics Conference takes on a special importance in the pursuit of those goals. The 2-day agenda includes an exposition of robotics pilot projects and addressses and round-table discussions by notable international guests and partners.

“The venture market in 2012 was $46bn in the US and $1bn in Russia with growth by 2020 to $75bn in the US and $5.5bn in Russia,” said Mikhail Shekhovstov from J’son & Partners Research.

The main funding methods available to innovative companies in Russia today include venture capital, business angels and seed accelerators. Although crowd funding and crowd investment was discussed at the 2013 conference, it is not really present yet in the Russian investment market. Business angels also are only just starting to become a part of the funding toolbox in Russia.

The importance of inspirational Russian investors such as Yuri Milner, Dmitry Grishin and Dmitry Itskov, and the global investment community is not ignored, but all recognise that they are few and far between.

Source: The Robot Report’s Global Map of Robotic Providers

About The Author

Frank Tobe

Frank Tobe is the founder of The Robot Report and co-founder of ROBO Global which has developed a tracking index for the robotics industry, the ROBO Global™ Robotics & Automation Index. The index of ~90 companies in 13 sub-sectors tracks and captures the entire economic value of this global opportunity in robotics, automation and enabling technologies.

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