INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION ICSTI

INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION (ICSTI) INNOVATIVE BUSINESS SUPPORT: ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS

BASIC FACTS • Intergovernmental organization established 27 Feb 1969. HQ in Moscow; • 21 member states (Governments); • Associated partners (private business) ~ 50 partners from 14 countries.

ICSTI Member States

ICSTI MANDATE • Facilitate and support international co-operation in science, information exchange, technology transfer and innovations; • Provide services in the field of scientific and technical information; • Assist small and medium innovative technologydriven business.

OPERATING PRINCIPLES • Governing body: Committee of Plenipotentiary Representatives – high-level officials appointed by governmental agencies of ICSTI member states; • Headquarters – management and implementation; • Network of National Focal Points – governmental agencies (science and R&D, technology and innovations, education), national centres of STI; • Partners – organizations in member/non-member states, international agencies (UN family, EU, etc. ), business companies, individual researchers.

TRADITIONAL ICSTI ACTIVITIES • Development of and on-line access to data bases (R&D results, meta-data, technology offers, business, etc. ); • Development of information tools (thesauri, software); • Analytical reviews and market research; • Capacity-building projects; • Publications; • Conferences, exhibitions, workshops.

ICSTI ADVANTAGES • Almost 40 years of professional activities; • Established network of partners in member / nonmember states; • Regional/multilateral approach; • International, intergovernmental status and long-term experience in managing business projects; • Partnerships with large innovation/business associations in member and non-member states. • Standing relations with international agencies supporting SMEs, innovations, technology transfer (e. g. , UNIDO, etc. )

COOPERATION WITH INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS • Development and distribution of information products (software, thesauri); • Translation, publication and distribution of newsletters, bulletins, other information materials; • Capacity-building projects; • Regional meetings, workshops, etc.

THE MAIN TASKS OF ICSTI DURING 2005 -2008 • Development of mechanisms for promotion of innovative activity and provision of related analytical support. • Information and analytical work. • Information, organization and methodology support to innovative and technological sphere. • Assistance to entrepreneurship

Information, organization and methodology support to innovative and technological sphere • Development and establishment of the Innovation Promotion Network (IPN) of the ICSTI; • Publishing of the international journal “Information and Innovations”; • Evolution of the portal “Business-office for innovative and technology-driven organizations” and Internet-platform for networking; • Organizing of international seminars and business meetings on issues of exchange of technologies, scientific, technological & innovative cooperation.

Main Targets of IPN • Creation of opportunities for direct access to and exchange of the information between participants of the Network. • Provision of a wide range of intermediary services in the field of innovation and technology transfer. • Development of a mechanism supporting SMEs of ICSTI member states in innovation and technology related projects.

ICSTI Innovation Promotion Network Structure • NCC - Navigation by the innovation structures of the respective countries • NO - Collection and presentation of information about technologies and requests for them Coordinating organization: ICSTI Headquarters National and international Coordination centers (NCC) National organizations of innovative activity of SMEs (NO) Innovation Promotion Tools (IPT) High-quality Intermediary Services (IS) Business Communities (BC) Significant experience of Information & Technology Brokers (I&TB) IPT IS BC I&TB R&D and educational establishments and organizations, SMEs, holders and users of technologies

List of the IPN Focal Points (Memoranda and Agreements on innovative and technology cooperation have been signed) Country Republic of Belarus Organization Belarusian Institute of System Analysis and Information Support for Scientific and Technical Sphere (Bel. ISA) Republican Center for Technology Transfer of the Republic of Belarus (RCTT) Republic of Kazakhstan National Center for Scientific and Technical Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan (NC STI RK) Ukraine Ukrainian Institute of Scientific, Technical and Economic Information (Ukr. ISTEI) Russia Association “Russian House for International Scientific & Technical Cooperation” (RH ISTC) Republic of Poland Federation of Scientific and Technical Associations of the Republic of Poland (FSNT NOT) Czech Republic Association of Innovative Entrepreneurship of the Czech Republic (AIE CR) Republic of India Mitcon Consultancy Services Ltd Serbia Eco Technology Group

IPN Products and Tools § Bilingual international journal "Information and Innovations"; § Business Office for innovation-technological enterprises and Internet Platform for networking, including: - Network databases; - Complex of educational-methodological materials for raising business qualifications; § Permanent exposition of innovative technologies from SMEs in ICSTI Headquarters; § Regular international business-meetings of the holders of technologies with potential buyers; § International events: seminars and conferences; § Training on various aspects of innovation activity.

Journal themes • Needs and challenges facing national systems of STI, national innovation systems and their interaction. • Global tendencies and trends in innovative processes. • Information support to commercialization of innovative projects, technologies, products. • Activities of international organizations committed to innovations and technology transfer. • Regular materials dedicated to current ICSTI activities.

Business-office for innovation-technological structures

Business E-Coach

High-Tech Products Database

CD-ROM “Promising Technologies and High-Tech Products” More then 250 offers of high-tech products and technologies from databases of ICSTI and its partners. On-line requests and technological offers for entering in ICSTI DB. Comprehensive presentation of trainings on innovation subjects.

Exhibition of Hi-Tech Products and Innovative Technologies ICSTI member states present high technologies in the field of modern material science, ecology and energy-saving

Examples of ICSTI workshops and seminars during last year • International seminar “Challenges and prospects of scientific and technical cooperation of Belarus and countries of the CIS ” • International seminar-presentation “Scientific and Technical Developments of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia for Multilateral Cooperation”. • Seminar-presentation of ICSTI in the National Center of Scientific and Technical Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan • International Congress “Scientific and Methodology Support to Development of the System of Scientific and Technical Information in the Republic of Belarus” • Conference of the International Working Group of the Innovation Promotion Network

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION (ICSTI) www. icsti. su 21 -B Kuusinen St. , 125252, Moscow, Russia Tel. : +7 -499 -1986430, 1987025; Fax: +7 -499 -9430089, business-office@icsti. su, info@icsti. su