On 11 December Skolkovo Foundation signed cooperation agreement with Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council, sponsored by the Indian government with the aim to support hi-tech Indian companies in international markets outreach.
On 11 December Skolkovo Foundation signed cooperation agreement with Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council, sponsored by the Indian government with the aim to support hi-tech Indian companies in international markets outreach. The document was signed by Victor Vekselberg, President of Skolkovo Foundation, and D K Sareen, Executive Director of the Council. The signing ceremony took place in the framework of the official visit of the Russian President Vladimir Putin to India.
The agreement stipulates:
As a part of this Agreement the Council already invited 15 Skolkovo’s startups to take part in the largest IT conference Indiasoft-2015, which will be held in February 2015 in New Delhi. Skolkovo Foundation invited Indian startups to take part in the international conference Startup Village 2015 - to be held in June 2015 in Skolkovo, near Moscow.
Victor Vekselberg, President of Skolkovo Foundation: “Information technologies sector in Indian economy shows very fast and sustainable growth rates in recent years. As a result India’s IT sector’s input into country’s GDP amounts to 8.9%. Exchange of experience with Indian companies becomes vital for Russian startups”.
About Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council
The Council, founded in 1989, is the leading organization in India to support companies in their efforts to outreach international markets. The Council unites over 2300 companies engaged in export of electronics hardware, information technologies and services, IT enabled services, telecom hardware and software. Companies supported by the Council export to more than 200 countries.
About the Skolkovo Foundation
The Skolkovo Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in September 2010 by the Russian government with an objective to accelerate transformation of Russia from a resource-intensive to an innovation-based economy. To achieve this objective the Foundation is overseeing the creation of the Skolkovo Innovation Center composed of companies and startups, developing innovative technologies (currently numbering over 1000), a Technopark, the Skolkovo Institute of Technology (Skoltech), a new graduate research University established in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Skolkovo city, located near Moscow. Together these entities will establish a vibrant ecosystem of technology innovation and entrepreneurship. 30 world’s most successful corporations, including Boeing, Cisco Systems, EADS, GE, Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Siemens, Nokia, Samsung etc. have already recognized the opportunity Skolkovo presents having signed R&D partnership agreements with the Foundation.