Irkutsk State University sets up Tech Transfer Center

Irkutsk State University in Siberia has set up its own Tech Transfer Center as a spin-off company to commercialize university projects

Irkutsk State University (ISU) in Siberia has set up its own Tech Transfer Center, the ISU press service announced. The Center has been established as a spin-off limited liability company and is expected to offer a classic range of consulting services, including search for partners and customers, and assistance for innovators in doing paperwork for investors and packaging their projects. According to Yevgeny Semyonov, the CEO of the new company and head of ISU?s department for innovation development, ?the Center will primarily focus on the commercialization of the university?s R&D results and assistance in raising government and private capital to fund innovation projects.? The university has its own Taiga Start-up School which is said to be developing 18 innovation projects originating from ISU labs...