Fourth cohort of Volga tech projects ready to turn heads in U.S.
A new group of Russian tech start-ups and university projects arrived in Maryland earlier this week to participate in a two-week training program and meetings with potential investors and partners
Apr 16, 2015
This is yet another dimension to cooperation between Russia and the United States in technology innovation, an area which the Western sanctions against Russia do not cover.
This new group consists of four projects from the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod (UNN) and two from the Perm Polytechnic (PNRPU). Both universities are located in Russia’s Volga Federal District. The technology solutions this current visit to the U.S. is intended to help promote to both the American and broader international markets are fairly diverse and aim to bring improvement to various sectors.
For example, new ferromagnetic materials with given properties, being developed at UNN, would be very useful in medicine for magnetic-liquid hyperthermia. Another project from Nizhny Novgorod, also to support physicians, is rapid remote diagnostics of both physical and psychoemotional condition of a patient. UNN is offering the world market its deep resolution system, too, a scanning solution drawing upon methods from both microelectronics and biomedicine to ensure high-sharpness imaging of deeply seated objects. There are solutions for telecommunications as well: for example, new UNN technology for the development of radio frequency integral circuits (RFICs). The latter is based on RFID technology and, in addition to commercial applications, may provide support for UNN’s biomed research, which is a priority at this Russian university.
Perm innovators have also brought interesting projects to the U.S. One of these is an effort to develop technology and make equipment for plasma treatment of nonferrous metals and alloys to dramatically improve the properties of these materials.
This is a fourth cohort of Russian developers to land in the U.S. to establish closer business ties with American partners since the 2013 launch of the US-Russia Innovation Corridor, one of the key infrastructure support initiatives which UNN is implementing under the EURECA Program backed by the US-Russia Foundation (USRF). UNN is the main Russian partner in the initiative, and the program has been designed in partnership with the University of Maryland. Last year the Perm Polytechnic joined the program under the guidance of its UNN colleagues in Nizhny Novgorod.
Under the Corridor provisions, twice a year UNN and PNRPU projects are placed into a two-week intensive iCorps style training program, where they are introduced to dozens of potential partners and customers in order to enhance their U.S. market entry strategies.
For this spring, for example, in addition to networking in Maryland meetings, talks and presentations have been planned in Washington, DC, and the neighboring state of Virginia.
Places the Russian innovators expect to visit include George Washington University, George Mason University, and the Carnegie Institution of Science.
This new group consists of four projects from the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod (UNN) and two from the Perm Polytechnic (PNRPU). Both universities are located in Russia’s Volga Federal District. The technology solutions this current visit to the U.S. is intended to help promote to both the American and broader international markets are fairly diverse and aim to bring improvement to various sectors.
For example, new ferromagnetic materials with given properties, being developed at UNN, would be very useful in medicine for magnetic-liquid hyperthermia. Another project from Nizhny Novgorod, also to support physicians, is rapid remote diagnostics of both physical and psychoemotional condition of a patient. UNN is offering the world market its deep resolution system, too, a scanning solution drawing upon methods from both microelectronics and biomedicine to ensure high-sharpness imaging of deeply seated objects. There are solutions for telecommunications as well: for example, new UNN technology for the development of radio frequency integral circuits (RFICs). The latter is based on RFID technology and, in addition to commercial applications, may provide support for UNN’s biomed research, which is a priority at this Russian university.
Perm innovators have also brought interesting projects to the U.S. One of these is an effort to develop technology and make equipment for plasma treatment of nonferrous metals and alloys to dramatically improve the properties of these materials.
This is a fourth cohort of Russian developers to land in the U.S. to establish closer business ties with American partners since the 2013 launch of the US-Russia Innovation Corridor, one of the key infrastructure support initiatives which UNN is implementing under the EURECA Program backed by the US-Russia Foundation (USRF). UNN is the main Russian partner in the initiative, and the program has been designed in partnership with the University of Maryland. Last year the Perm Polytechnic joined the program under the guidance of its UNN colleagues in Nizhny Novgorod.
Under the Corridor provisions, twice a year UNN and PNRPU projects are placed into a two-week intensive iCorps style training program, where they are introduced to dozens of potential partners and customers in order to enhance their U.S. market entry strategies.
For this spring, for example, in addition to networking in Maryland meetings, talks and presentations have been planned in Washington, DC, and the neighboring state of Virginia.
Places the Russian innovators expect to visit include George Washington University, George Mason University, and the Carnegie Institution of Science.