Agreements reached on U.S.-Russia Innovation Corridor
The University of Nizhny Novgorod and the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), have agreed to put together what is termed as “the EURECA U.S.-Russia Innovation Corridor,” EURECA reports.
Jan 29, 2013
The University of Nizhny Novgorod and the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), have agreed to put together what is termed as "the EURECA U.S.-Russia Innovation Corridor," EURECA reports.
The EURECA U.S.-Russia Innovation Corridor is a project to increase collaboration in innovation and commercialization between the U.S. and Russia.
The Corridor will incubate collaborations in innovation between the U.S. and Russia, starting with Maryland and Nizhny Novgorod entities, and drawing upon the services and resources of the Maryland International Incubator at UMD. The Corridor initiative grows out of the partnership between UMD and UNN that was founded and developed during the two year pilot of the EURECA program, and represents the deepening of a State-Region relationship established in March 2010.
The UNN-UMD partnership within EURECA focused on building university relations with industry, and the U.S.-Russia Innovation Corridor is a product of that work. During October and November, American Councils and UMD developed and then presented models for intake of companies to the Corridor and the Corridor program. American Councils and UMD also worked with the State of Maryland to secure financial support, and with their Nizhny Novgorod contacts and UNN to link in Russian regional government support.
At the November 27-29 EURECA Conference in Nizhny Novgorod, UNN leadership announced it will fund the Russian side costs of the Corridor, and pledged to provide travel funds for UNN-affiliated companies. UMD crafted and presented a draft memorandum of understanding to UNN to govern their cooperation and UMD, American Councils and UNN further discussed the model and its role within a proposed EURECA II. American Councils invited ITMO, a St. Petersburg-based university, to consider start-ups for the Corridor and to explore how the iDealMachine Accelerator might also cooperate with the initiative.
The State and Region governments, along with the administrations of UNN and UMD and American Councils met to discuss the model in person, including ways to include start-ups not affiliated with UNN directly. In this way, the U.S.-Russia Innovation Corridor can also serve other institutions' start-ups and UMD's resources can be leveraged to help establish other U.S.-Russia collaborative research partnerships.
As part of this effort UNN, UMD and American Councils visited the NN Region supported Innovation Business Incubator, which is also active in the national business incubation community. UNN has agreed preliminarily with the regional administration that it will support travel costs for other companies from the Nizhny Novgorod region to access the Corridor.
The EURECA U.S.-Russia Innovation Corridor is a project to increase collaboration in innovation and commercialization between the U.S. and Russia.
The Corridor will incubate collaborations in innovation between the U.S. and Russia, starting with Maryland and Nizhny Novgorod entities, and drawing upon the services and resources of the Maryland International Incubator at UMD. The Corridor initiative grows out of the partnership between UMD and UNN that was founded and developed during the two year pilot of the EURECA program, and represents the deepening of a State-Region relationship established in March 2010.
The UNN-UMD partnership within EURECA focused on building university relations with industry, and the U.S.-Russia Innovation Corridor is a product of that work. During October and November, American Councils and UMD developed and then presented models for intake of companies to the Corridor and the Corridor program. American Councils and UMD also worked with the State of Maryland to secure financial support, and with their Nizhny Novgorod contacts and UNN to link in Russian regional government support.
At the November 27-29 EURECA Conference in Nizhny Novgorod, UNN leadership announced it will fund the Russian side costs of the Corridor, and pledged to provide travel funds for UNN-affiliated companies. UMD crafted and presented a draft memorandum of understanding to UNN to govern their cooperation and UMD, American Councils and UNN further discussed the model and its role within a proposed EURECA II. American Councils invited ITMO, a St. Petersburg-based university, to consider start-ups for the Corridor and to explore how the iDealMachine Accelerator might also cooperate with the initiative.
The State and Region governments, along with the administrations of UNN and UMD and American Councils met to discuss the model in person, including ways to include start-ups not affiliated with UNN directly. In this way, the U.S.-Russia Innovation Corridor can also serve other institutions' start-ups and UMD's resources can be leveraged to help establish other U.S.-Russia collaborative research partnerships.
As part of this effort UNN, UMD and American Councils visited the NN Region supported Innovation Business Incubator, which is also active in the national business incubation community. UNN has agreed preliminarily with the regional administration that it will support travel costs for other companies from the Nizhny Novgorod region to access the Corridor.