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Experience and Vision of Open Innovations in Russia and Baltic Region: the FRUCT Program

Authors:
Sergey Balandin

Keywords: Open Innovations; FRUCT; Industry-to-Academia; R&D cooperation; new trends in innovations; Russia-Finland partnering; Russia-Baltic cooperation

Abstract:
This paper discusses our vision and experience of developing Open Innovations framework program, how it was implemented and why. The Open Innovations paradigm is a new trend for performing research and development that was proposed only a few years ago in 2003. The main em-phasis of this approach is on setting cooperation in form of direct industry-to-academia joint R&D project and de-velopment of the corresponding competence incubators around the most relevant technologies. As an example this paper presents the open innovations framework program FRUCT that is targeted in development of telecommunica-tions R&D ecosystem in Russia and Baltic region. The need for such cooperation is already recognized by the local in-dustry, academic community and government authorities. In particular, Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks expressed readiness and interest to invest into this project by contributing competences and providing some financial support.

Pages: 440 to 445

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2010

Publication date: October 25, 2010

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4278

ISBN: 978-1-61208-100-7

Location: Florence, Italy

Dates: from October 25, 2010 to October 30, 2010