Note: If an English-version
of the page is available, the resource is marked with .
Information support and professional training
On-line information guide "International support for Russian science and higher school"
The Web site "Innovations of the North-West" - a project sponsored by the Eurasia Foundation. The site contains information related to technological innovation activities in Russia's North-West region: participants of innovation acitivies, the infrastructure of innovation activities, info on patents, legislation, recommendations on business planning, sources of investment, database of technologies, analytical materials, etc.
Small
Business Resource Center - a TACIS project
NIS
Technology Companies and Organizations - A list of companies
and organizations participating in commercial projects dealing with science
and technology in the former USSR. This list has been made by the Technology
Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce .
The
FREEnet network information resources - this is one of the major
academic networks in Russia .
Information
resources on the Informika server - information on the Ministry
of Education of the Russian Federation, training of managers, distance
learning, conferences, exhibitions, competitions, grants, databases .
"The
Russian list of information resources related to scientific and technological
development"
Electronic bulletin "Technology Business" - an Internet-based forum for exchange of information and experience among Russian small innovative enterprises, consulting agencies, and financial institutions involved in technology business.
Electronic version of the journal "Innovations"
The
"Intellectual Property" Web site
On-line competition "Business Web site'99" - this competition of Russian Internet resources has started in August 1999. The nominations include: Finance and Economics, Corporate Web site, Advertising and Exhibitions, References and Information Materials, Goods and Services (including e-commerce), Internet-based Mass-Media.
"Garant" company - a major source of news about Russian legislation.
"Web-Consult" - a database of consulting companies operating in Russia.
Links
to Russian consulting and audit firms in the Weblist catalogue .
Web
resources on Russian science
Experts
& Consultants Intergroup (Moscow)
Technoconsult
(Moscow)
Technology
Park in Moskvorechye (Moscow)
Science
Park "Izmailovo" of the Moscow Institute of Energy (Moscow)
Center for Technology Commercialization (Moscow)
International
Technology Incubator (Moscow)
Republican
Research Scientific-Consulting Center for Expertise (Moscow)
Center for Assistance to Science and Technology Business Development in Higher School (Moscow) and its regional affiliates. German-language version of the page is available.
Innovation
Agency (Moscow)
Academy of Management and Market - the Morozov Project (Moscow)
Obninsk Science and Technology Park INTEGRO (Kaluga region)
Obninsk Center for Natural Sciences and Technologies (Kaluga region)
St.
Petersburg Regional Fund for Science and Technology Development
ILIP company ("Innovations of Leningrad Institutes and Enterprises") - St. Petersburg
Nizhny Novgorod Center for High Technology Incubation
Center for Innovation Business (Ekaterinburg)
Novgorod Technopark (Novgorod Veliky)
Tomsk Center for Assistance to Innovation
Fund
for Assistance to Science and Education - Tomsk Regional Technology Incubator
International Consulting Center (Novosibirsk)
Interactive consulting on legal issues on the Internet (Nizhny Novgorod)
International
Science and Technology Center (ISTC)
Civilian
Research and Development Foundation
The
Eurasia Foundation - the mission of the foundation is to provide
small grants that make for the transition from the planned to the market
economy by means of developing entrepreneurship, training of specialists
in the sphere of business and management, education and research in economics
(I have mentioned only those directions which are relevant to this page).
In 1998-99 the Eurasia Foundation, together with the Fund
for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises, funded the program
"Development of Consulting Services for Small Innovative Enterprises".
The
British Council provides assistance to development of contacts
between British and Russian organizations which promote high tech entrepreneurship.
The objective is to exchange information in such fields as technology evaluation
and technology audit, to provide access to Russian science for British
investors.
"Business
for Russia" - an IREX program
Fund for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises
Ministry of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation
Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation
Russian Fund for Technological Development
Russian
Venture Capital Association
European
Bank for Reconstruction and Development
The
US-Russia Investment Fund (TUSRIF)