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The Corporate Venture Capital Investors Association has been created in Russia. Softline Venture Partners, Orbita Capital Partners (Rosatom), New Industry (Gazprom Neft, Gazprombank, RVC, Veb Ventures), AFK Sistema and Severstal are named among the possible members.

 
 The association members will discuss and choose technology solutions for various business areas, for example, green energy, business processes automation and the Internet of Things. The association also plans to hold pitch sessions to select projects, organize tests and promote the created products.

 
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TASS

Corporate Venture Capital Investors Association Created in Russia

An information security consortium is expected to be created in Russia for exchange of experience and common solutions development. Positive Technologies, Kaspersky Lab, R-Vision, as well as specialized units of Russian Railways, Rosatom and other companies may join the consortium.

 
 There is no concept of consortium in the current Russian legislation, but there is one of partnership. The latter involves a joint activity agreement between several legal entities acting together without creating a legal entity to make a profit, says Yaroslav Schuetzle from the Rustam Kurmaev and Partners law firm.

 
 The Ministry of Digital Development supported the proposal, but specified that “first of all, this is a commercial project, not a state one”. Rosatom says that “combining resources and capacities will bring the next generation of cyber security systems to the domestic and global markets”. Kaspersky Lab noted that “there is a shortage of resources in the industry right now, so the unification would be useful”. According to a source of Kommersant, the legal structure of the project “is in development, and all partners are yet to approve it”.

 
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Kommersant

Cyber Security Consortium Discussed in Russia

Rosatom has completed the development and testing of alpha and beta versions of Repeat - a model-based environment platform. It can be used to create mathematical models of complex processes and objects in the energy sector, including digital twins.

 
 The company’s experts claim that Repeat is a competitive alternative to foreign software that can replace Matlab, Simulink, ETAP, Simcenter Amesim, and other solutions. It is expected that the solution will help to reduce the cost of production processes. According to the plan of the developers, the first official release of Repeat is scheduled for the fall of 2022.

 
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Rosatom Develops Software for Mathematical Modeling of Objects and Processes in Energy Sector

T-Kom (an enterprise of the TVEL fuel company of Rosatom) started assembling telecom equipment at the Moscow Polymetal Plant. The company launched a workshop for SKD assembly of products, where they are labeled, packaged, and the software is installed and tested.

 
 According to the company’s information, the planned capacity is 1200 pieces of equipment per month. Currently, the production of more than 70 models of managed switches has been set up. T-Kom also produces equipment with Russian software, which will be included in the register of Russian software.

 
 The company’s experts say that the key consumers of its equipment are industrial companies, enterprises in energy, telecommunications and the nuclear sectors, and also scientific, educational, and medical institutions.

 
 According to the forecast of Freedom Finance analysts, in the near future the launch of new production facilities by the subsidiaries of large companies can become a trend in Russia, especially in areas where the issue of of import substitution is acute.

 
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T-Kom Launches Production of Telecom Equipment in Moscow

In mid-February, the Ministry of Economic Development will publish for the first time the White Paper, a summary report on the development of certain high-tech areas. It is expected to be released annually.

 
 In addition to the department, other ministries participated in creating the document, as well as the Higher School of Economics, Sberbank, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Rostec, Rostelecom, Rosatom, Russian Railways (RZD), Rosseti, Roskosmos and Gazprom. First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov ordered to prepare such a book in the summer of 2021.

 
 The authors of the White Book specify that Russia, among other countries, ranks from 7th-8th to 19th in terms of publication activity of researchers and from fourth-sixth to the border of the second and third ten in patent activity. The development of technology in Russia is hampered by a strong dependence on the import of components and equipment, sanctions, a lack of qualified specialists, as well as an insufficient number of start-ups and the almost complete absence of unicorns.

 
 In particular, the document states that:

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 <li>from 2015 to 2019, the global number of patent applications related to artificial intelligence (AI) increased from 22,500 to 63,700. Russian authors filed about 100–140 patent applications per year. In the total volume of scientific papers on AI, the share of Russian authors is 1.5% (2020 data). Among the main AI developers in Russia are Yandex, VisionLabs, NtechLab, Sberbank, VK, MTS, Gazprom Neft, Kaspersky Lab.</li>
 <li>Russia accounted for 0.2% of the total number of patent applications for inventions related to the Internet of things&nbsp;(IoT) in the world (2019 data) and 1.5% of the total number of scientific publications (2020 data). Among the leading Russian companies in this area are MTS, Beeline, MegaFon, Rostelecom, Rostec, etc. The main advantage of Russian players compared to the foreign ones is more functional software, more efficient data processing algorithms, storage solutions data and monitoring, etc. However, the main hardware solutions are made on a foreign element base.</li>
 <li>Russia accounted for 0.1% of the global number of patent applications for inventions related to fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks in 2019 and 1.8% of the total number of scientific publications (2020 data). Already, the penetration rate of 5G in the USA, China and South Korea is 15-20%, while in Russia the technology is implemented only in pilot zones, their full launch has been postponed until 2024. By this date, “the gap can reach critical values ​​both in terms of the level of development of the infrastructure of 5G networks and the degree of readiness of services based on them,” the authors of the document said.</li>
 <li>In 2019, Russia accounted for 1.5% of total patent applications related to quantum computing and 4.7% of scientific publications (2020 data). Rosatom, the Russian Quantum Center and various universities are developing these technologies in the country. The technological gap between Russia and the world leaders in the field of quantum computing is estimated at seven to ten years. In 2025-2030, when quantum computers will be massively introduced, “non-quantum technological leadership of the state will become impossible,” the document says.</li>
 <li>Russian authors occupied 0.2% in the total volume of patents in the field of distributed registry technologies (data of 2019) and 2.1% in scientific publications (according to the results of 2020). The project using this technology is being implemented by the National Settlement Depository, the Federal Tax Service, Dom.RF, Sberbank, Raiffeisenbank, Norilsk Nickel, Gazprom Neft, and others.</li>
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Russia Сreates a White Book on Technologies

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The platform is used for attracting financing to business projects – technical, creative, social and other projects. Boomstarter helps the authors of creative and technical projects attract funds for their realization, using a crowdfunding model.

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