A grants contest for innovative companies started in the Novosibirsk Region

An innovative companies competition on the right to receive subsidies from the regional budget of the Novosibirsk Region started, the website of the Ministry of Education, Science and innovation policy of the region reports. Grants are allocated to preparation, implementation, transferring and commercialization of technologies, including the production of an experimental batch of products and its certification, modernization of production and other activities.

Grants are given to the innovative companies for the commercialization of technologies, such as:

• completion of research and development activities;
• prototyping and patenting;
• release of an experimental batch of products;
• introduction of entirely new or a new consumer properties of goods (works, services);
• creation and application of new methods and modernization of existing techniques of production, distribution and use of goods (works, services).

Applications for participation in the contest can be submitted from June 4 to 18, 2012.