Open Innovations (Forum and Technology Show) is an annual international forum that focuses on new technologies and perspectives of the international cooperation on innovations. The focus of Forum is to provide a platform for discussions, interaction and exchange amongst experts in leading edge technologies, scientists, top-managers from Russian and foreign corporations, startups, and state authorities including top public officials. The international exhibition of high-tech achievements is also part of Forum. Forum has been held in Moscow since 2012 under the guidance of the Russian Government with the support of Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, Moscow City Government and Russian development institutes:

Rusnano Rusnano Group (russian: Роснано АО, lit=Rosnano plc.) is a Russian state-established and funded company. The Rusnano Group's mission is to create competitive nanotechnology-based industry in Russia. Rusnano invests directly and through i ...

Russian Venture Company RVC (russian: Rossijskaja Venchurnaja Kompanija) (JSC) is a state fund of funds and a development institute of the Russian Federation, one of Russia's key tools in building its own national innovation system. RVC is founded by Russian Government ...

Skolkovo Foundation The Skolkovo Foundation is the principal agency, as a part of VEB.RF group (ex-Vnesheconombank), responsible for the Russian Skolkovo Innovation Center, a scientific and technological center for the development and commercialization of advanced t ...

Vnesheconombank VEB.RF, or VEB (russian: ВЭБ.РФ (ex-Vnesheconombank)), is a Russian state development corporation. It was founded in 2007 as a development institute. VEB.RF is an investment company and development institute in Russia. It has financed more t ...

, Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises in Science and Technology (FASIE). Forum aims to establish itself as a major global innovation platform, capable of predicting the development of the global innovative ecosystem, popularize innovative Research and Developments, involve top public officials, international corporations and leaders of the innovation community into a dialogue about strategic partnership, and create new tools of international cooperation in innovation.

History

Forum 2012

The first Open Innovations Forum and Open Innovations Expo (an associate exhibition) took place in Moscow between 31 October and 3 November 2012, in Expocentre. For three days Forum hosted more than 150 events involving 700 speakers from 40 countries. Forum was attended by more than 5000 people from 42 regions of Russia and 30 countries around the world. The event was also broadcast online to a wider audience. With 22 000 sqm of space, Open Innovations Expo hosted more than 500 companies from 16 countries representing more than 1000 of the latest engineering solutions. The exhibition was attended by 10 000 people.Open Innovations Forum, Moscow, 31 October – 2 November 2013
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committee A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly. A committee is not itself considered to be a form of assembly. Usually, the assembly sends matters into a committee as a way to explore them more ...

of Open Innovations Forum was chaired by Vladislav Surkov.

Dmitry Medvedev Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev ( rus, links=no, Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев, p=ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪdˈvʲedʲɪf; born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician who has been serving as the dep ...

and other officials participated in the first day sessions of Forum.

Deputy prime minister A deputy prime minister or vice prime minister is, in some countries, a government minister who can take the position of acting prime minister when the prime minister is temporarily absent. The position is often likened to that of a vice president, ...

s Vladislav Surkov and

Arkady Dvorkovich Arkady Vladimirovich Dvorkovich (russian: Арка́дий Влади́мирович Дворко́вич; born 26 March 1972) is a Russian politician and economist, who was Deputy Prime Minister in Dmitry Medvedev's Cabinet from 21 May 2012 ...

gave speeches and represented Russian government agencies at Forum. Heads of Russian state corporations Igor Agamirzyan ( RVC),

Anatoly Chubais Anatoly Borisovich Chubais (russian: Анатолий Борисович Чубайс; born 16 June 1955) is a Russian politician and economist who was responsible for privatization in Russia as an influential member of Boris Yeltsin's administ ...

(

Viktor Vekselberg Viktor Felixovich Vekselberg (russian: Виктор Феликсович Вексельберг, uk, Віктор Феліксович Вексельберг; born April 14, 1957) is a Ukrainian-born Russian–Israeli-Cyprus oligarch, billion ...

( Skolkovo) also spoke at Forum. Among the many participants were Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group, Josh Lerner, head of the Entrepreneurial Management unit at

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...

, Alan AtKisson, counselor of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, David Yang, founder and director of the board of ABBYY, Wim Elfrink, Cisco's executive vice president and CGO for Industry Solutions,

John Gage John Burdette Gage (born October 9, 1942) was the 21st employee of Sun Microsystems, where he is credited with creating the phrase The Network is the Computer. He served as vice president and chief researcher and director of the Science Office ...

, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Hans Vestberg, president and CEO of Ericsson AB. Forum resulted in more than 20 signed agreements between major Russian and global companies in the field of renewable energy, hi-tech technologies, education, science, healthcare and

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. According to research conducted by the Centre for Studying Regional Problems, Forum rated second in TOP-10 events in the area of innovations in 2012.

Forum 2013

In 2013, Forum and exhibition took place in Moscow between 31 October and 2 November in Crocus Expo International Exhibition Center. Forum hosted 75 events including ambassadors and foreign delegations from 22 countries, Russian and foreign ministers, Russian

innovator Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services. ISO TC 279 in the standard ISO 56000:2020 defines innovation as "a new or changed entit ...

s from 26 districts of the Russian Federation, and 28 governors of the constituent entities of Russia. Forum was attended by more than 4000 people from 47 countries. The event was covered by 900 representatives of mass media.Results of the II Moscow International Forum for Innovative Development "Open Innovations" and Open Innovations Expo 2013
/ref> The organizing committee of Open Innovations Forum was chaired by Deputy Prime Minister

; and

Sergei Sobyanin Sergey Semyonovich Sobyanin (russian: link=no, Сергей Семёнович Собянин; born 21 June 1958) is a Russian politician, serving as the 3rd Mayor of Moscow since 21 October 2010. Sobyanin previously served as the Governor of ...

, the mayor of Moscow, officially opened the Forum. The main topic of Forum in 2013 was " Disruption and Innovation: Game Changers Powering the Global Market". This topic was discussed during 3

plenary sessions A plenary session or plenum is a session of a conference which all members of all parties are to attend. Such a session may include a broad range of content, from keynotes to panel discussions, and is not necessarily related to a specific style ...

and 60 industry sessions with 400 performing speakers. For the first time in 2013, Forum introduced the term, "partner country". Finland and France became partner countries in 2013. Representing Russia and partner countries respectively were,

, prime-minister of Russia,

Jyrki Katainen Jyrki Tapani Katainen (born 14 October 1971) is a Finnish politician who served as the European Commission's Vice-President for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness from 2014 until 2019. Katainen was previously Prime Minister of Finland f ...

, prime-minister of Finland, and

Jean-Marc Ayrault Jean-Marc Ayrault (; born 25 January 1950) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 15 May 2012 to 31 March 2014. He later was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2017. He previously was Mayor of Nantes from 1989 t ...

, prime-minister of France. The three dignitaries took part in Forum where they met with representatives of innovative entrepreneurship and scientific community, members of "100 innovators" youth program, and participated in the plenary sessions. Before the plenary sessions

has a bilateral meeting with

. Among other invited participants were

Jason Pontin Jason Matthew Daniel Pontin (born 11 May 1967) is a British-born venture capitalist and journalist. He is a partner at the venture capital firm of DCVC in Palo Alto, and is a board member and seed investor in a number of life sciences companies ...

, editor-in-chief of

MIT Technology Review ''MIT Technology Review'' is a bimonthly magazine wholly owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and editorially independent of the university. It was founded in 1899 as ''The Technology Review'', and was re-launched without "The" in ...

; Andrea Wong, president of Sony Pictures Entertainment;

Ralph Simon Ralph Simon, FRSA, is a business executive, first in the music industry, and now in the mobile entertainment industry. Early life He was raised in Johannesburg, South Africa where he went to the University of the Witwatersrand, and left South Afri ...

, CEO of Mobilium Global; Duncan Mitchell, senior vice president of Emerging Markets at

Cisco Cisco Systems, Inc., commonly known as Cisco, is an American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, ...

, EVP Innovation and R&D; Gerald Schotman, chief technology officer at Royal Dutch Shell; Ian Hudson, president of DuPont Europe, Middle East and Africa and many others. Representing government agencies were: Vladislav Surkov, deputy prime-minister; Igor Agamirzyan (CEO, RVC);

(chairman of board of directors,

) and

(president of Skolkovo). There were 530 companies from 9 countries gathered at the integrated Open Innovations Expo exhibition which demonstrated more than 1000 hi-tech developments and attracted more than 12 000 people. The first two days of Forum resulted in the signing of more than 30 agreements on cooperation in

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, chemistry, areas in IT, education, ecosystem enhancement, competence and

business development Business development entails tasks and processes to develop and implement growth opportunities within and between organizations. It is a subset of the fields of business, commerce and organizational theory. Business development is the creation of l ...

Forum 2014

In 2014, between 14 and 16 October, Open Innovations Forum and exhibition took place in Technopolis Moscow and attracted more than 15 000 people from 70 countries. Forum hosted more than 160 events and welcomed representatives of science, education, technological companies, investors and state authorities with more than 800

startups A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable business model. While entrepreneurship refers to all new businesses, including self-employment and businesses that never intend t ...

from 19 countries.Outcomes of Third Moscow International Forum 'Open Innovations'
/ref> The official partner country of the 2014 Forum was the People's Republic of China. Chinese partners held a special event within Forum called "Dialogue on Innovations: Interaction of Innovation Policies of the Partner Countries" where experts outlined trends for further cooperation with Russia. Forum was personally attended by Li Keqiang, the premier of the state council of the People's Republic of China. The main topic of Forum "Creative Destruction: Staying Competitive in the 21st Century" was discussed at more than 70 events. The highlight of the plenary session, "Emerging Global Innovation Map and Ways to Close the Technological Gap between Countries", was the participation of

and Li Keqiang, heads of the government of Russian and China. The session also welcomed

Andrei Fursenko Andrei Aleksandrovich Fursenko (russian: Андрей Александрович Фурсенко; ; born 17 July 1949 in Leningrad) is a Russian politician, scientist and businessman. He was the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian ...

, aide to the president of the Russian Federation;

Dmitry Livanov Dmitry Viktorovich Livanov (russian: Дми́трий Ви́кторович Лива́нов, born February 15, 1967 in Moscow) is a Russian Doctor of Physics, professor, former rector of Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, and the Minister ...

, minister of education and science of the Russian Federation; Denis Manturov, minister of industry and trade; Sergei Donskoi, minister of natural resources and environment; Sergey Sobyanin, mayor of Moscow. Among other participants of Open Innovations Forum 2014 were Cabinet members

Nikolai Nikiforov Nikolay Anatolyevich Nikiforov (russian: Никола́й Анато́льевич Ники́форов; born 24 June 1982) is a Russian politician. In 2012, he became Minister of Communications and Mass Media of Russia. Career At age 19, N ...

and Alexander Galushka; heads of companies:

( Skolkovo), Dmitry Konov (

Sibur SIBUR (PJSC SIBUR Holding) is a Russian petrochemicals company founded in 1995 and headquartered in Moscow. SIBUR is the largest integrated petrochemicals company in Russia and one of the fastest-growing companies in the global petrochemicals ...

(

), Bo Andersson ( AvtoVAZ), Guo Ping ( Huawei), Joe Liu ( 3M), Rupert Keeley ( PayPal); scientists:

Vladimir Fortov Vladimir Yevgenyevich Fortov (russian: Владимир Евгеньевич Фортов; 23 January 1946 – 29 November 2020) was a Russian physicist and politician who served as director of the Joint Institute for High Temperatures (1992– ...

Kurt Wüthrich Kurt Wüthrich (born 4 October 1938 in Aarberg, Canton of Bern) is a Swiss chemist/biophysicist and Nobel Chemistry laureate, known for developing nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods for studying biological macromolecules. Education and e ...

and others. The key speakers at Forum were Richard Roberts ( New England Biolabs),

(EZH Zürich),

Zhores Alferov Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (russian: link=no, Жоре́с Ива́нович Алфёров, ; be, Жарэс Іва́навіч Алфёраў; 15 March 19301 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian physicist and academic who contributed signific ...

, Bertrand Piccard (

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), Georgette Yakman ( STEAM Education), and Eckard Foltin (

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MaterialScience). At the end of Forum winners of GenerationS 2014, the federal accelerating competition for technological startups, were announced. The winners were Promobot (Industrial), Kera-Tech (BioTechMed), NanoServ (CleanTech) and VeeRoute (IT).

Forum 2015

In 2015, Forum and exhibition took place in Moscow on 28 October-1 November at Pavilion 75, VDNH. For five days Forum hosted 115 business events involving more than 200 speakers from more than 30 countries. In 2015, the participants of Forum discussed how technologies influence productivity, habitat, education, health and entertainment. The major event of Forum in 2015 was the plenary session "Humanity in the Center of the Technological Revolution" that took place on 28 October. It involved Prime-Ministers of Russia and Serbia –

and

Aleksandar Vučić Aleksandar Vučić ( sr-Cyrl, Александар Вучић, ; born 5 March 1970) is a Serbian politician serving as the president of Serbia since 2017, and as the president of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) since 2012. Vučić served ...

as well as economist Jeremy Rifkin, futurist Gerd Leonhard, ABBYY founder David Yang. The session was moderated by Mike Butcher ( TechCrunch Europe). Among the many participants were economist

Nouriel Roubini Nouriel Roubini (born March 9 1958) is a Turkish-born Iranian-American economist. He is Professor Emeritus (2021–present) and was Professor of Economics (1995–2021) at the Stern School of Business, New York University, and also chairman of Ro ...

, airspace designer

Burt Rutan Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan (; born June 17, 1943) is a retired American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, and energy-efficient air and space craft. He designed the record ...

, Jim Morris ( Pixar), Aubrey de Grey (

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), Axel Flaig (

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), Carlo Ratti ( SENSEable City Lab MIT). Representing government agencies were Deputy Prime-Minister of Russia

, mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin, Cabinet members of

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, India, China, Brazil, Israel, the

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. As part of Forum winners of competitions such as Venture Investor, RUSNANOPRIZE 2015, TechUp 2015, Tech in Media 2015 and other were announced. The exhibition part of Forum featured Russian and foreign exhibits including the Moscow City Government, Russian development institutes, ministries of Russia, Association of Innovative Regions of Russia, IBM, Intel to name a few.

Heads of states and governments who took part in Forum

The table below lists top public officials who participated in the events of Forum as well as events throughout.

Associated events

Apart from plenary sessions, Forum's program includes the exhibition, youth program and cultural program.

Exhibition of hi-tech achievements

Open Innovations Forum also hosts the exhibition of hi-tech achievements. Between 2012 and 2014 the original name for the exhibition was Open Innovations Expo. In 2015, the exhibition evolved into Open Innovations Technology Show.

Youth program

The youth program consists of a number of events for startups arranged as part of Open Innovations Forum. Selection procedures to decide on participants of the youth program are held both in Russia and abroad. During Forum, members of the youth program are offered tours to innovation sites of Moscow, meet with representatives of development institute and investors, participate in lectures and master classes, and get involved in business program of Forum.100 Innovators Group at the SCO Countries’ Student Spring
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References

External links

*{{Official website, forinnovations.ru/en/
Official Youtube channel
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