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INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION (ICSTI)

INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION (ICSTI). ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS SUPPORTING INNOVATIVE BUSINESS. BASIC FACTS. Intergovernmental organization established 27 Feb 1969. HQ in Moscow; 21 member states (Governments);

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INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION (ICSTI)

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  1. INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION (ICSTI) ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS SUPPORTING INNOVATIVE BUSINESS

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

  3. ICSTI Member States

  4. 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 technology-driven business.

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

  6. 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.

  7. ICSTI ADVANTAGES • Over 35 years of professional activities; • Established network of partners in member / non-member states: government agencies, research, academic, information, business communities; • 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.)

  8. 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.

  9. The Main Tasks of ICSTI during 2001 - 2007 Years 2001-2002 – provision of access to information resources of ICSTI community and development of in-house information resources. 2003-2004 – provision of information support in the sphere of innovations and active work with companies of small and medium business. 2005-2006 – development of mechanisms for promotion of innovative activity and provision of related analytical support.

  10. The Main Directions of ICSTI Activities in 2006-2007 years 1. Information and analytical work. 2. Information, organization and methodology support to innovative and technological sphere. 3. Assistance to entrepreneurship

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

  12. Main Aims of IPN • Creation of opportunities for direct access to and exchange of the available information between the members and participants of the Network, as well as provision of a wide range of intermediary services in the field of innovation and technology transfer. • Facilitation of access for SMEs of ICSTI member states to information and services provided by international projects supporting small and medium business. • Development of a mechanism supporting SMEs participation in innovation and technology related projects.

  13. Innovation Promotion Tools (IPT) High-quality Intermediary Services (IS) Business Communities (BC) Significant experience of Information & Technology Brokers (I&TB) IPT IPT IS IS BC BC I&TB I&TB IPT IPT IS IS BC BC I&TB I&TB 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) R&D and educational establishments and organizations, SMEs, holders and users of technologies

  14. List of thePotential IPN Focal Points (Memoranda and Agreements on innovative and technology cooperation have been signed)

  15. 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; • Important international events: seminars and conferences; • Training on various aspects of innovation activity.

  16. Journal themes THEMES: • Needs and challenges facing national systems of scientific and technical information, national innovation systems and their interaction. • Global tendencies and trends in development of 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.

  17. Business-office for innovation-technological structures

  18. Business E-Coach

  19. High-Tech Products Database

  20. CD-ROM “Promising Technologies and High-Tech Products” More then 100 offers of high-tech products and novel technologies from databases of the ICSTI and its partners. On-line requests and technological offers for entering in the ICSTI DB (needs a computer connected to the Internet). Comprehensive presentation of trainings on innovation subjects.

  21. 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

  22. Examples of ICSTI workshops and seminars • International seminar on the problems of the international innovative - technological cooperation and participation of ICSTI in the projects of the Asian - Pacific Center for Transfer of Technologies (АРСТТ) • Training course “ Role of the state in support of the small and medium innovational technological enterprises ”. Organizers: ICSTI, Fund of Assistance to Development of Small Forms of Enterprises in the Scientific and Technical Sphere (Russian Federation) and ANVAR (France) with support of the Scientific Committee of NATO. • The International Seminar “EUROPEAN COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF DEVELOPMENT OF MOBILE PERSONAL COMMUNICATION” jointly with the European Commission and with support of the Ministry of Communications and Ministry of Science of Russia. • Regular International Seminar “SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION IN THE COUNTRIES OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE” are held jointly with the Center of Information Processing of the Republic of Poland. • “Days of Russian High Technologies in London” were organized jointly with the innovational company PERA International (Great Britain) with support of the Ministry of Industry, Science and Technologies of Russia and the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Great Britain.

  23. 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 (NCSTI RK) • International Congress “Scientific and Methodology Support to Development of the System of Scientific and Technical Information in the Republic of Belarus”

  24. UNIDO-ICSTI International Seminar: “Scientific and Technological Innovation: National Experience and InternationalCooperation” and 58th sitting of the Committee of Plenipotentiary Representatives of ICSTI member states 29-30th May 2007 Vienna International Centre

  25. 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

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