Russia’s Olympic Committee Innovation Center to Award GenerationS-2015 Best
Russia's Olympic Committee Innovation Center has become a partner of GenerationS-2015.
As part of their cooperation, the ROC IC and GenerationS will focus on developing projects in the field of biotechnology, medicine and health, information and telecommunication systems, including educational technologies and technologies in the field of sports and healthy lifestyle. The Innovation Center of the Olympic Committee has established three categories for participants in the accelerator. Within the categories, the ROC IC experts will select up to nine young technology companies, provide them with expert support, and help to bring their products to market.
The ROC Innovation Center introduces the following categories for GenerationS participants: "Sports and healthy lifestyle mobile applications", "Portable devices for continuous monitoring of the human body state," and "Equipment for sports physiology and medicine. "The ROC IC Expert Group will select projects at the stage of GenerationS full-time corporate accelerators in September-November 2015. A special prize to nominees will be a certificate for participation in the Sports Technology Incubator created on the basis of ROC IC.
Participation in the Incubator will allow young companies to get marketing support for the project, access to high-tech platform for testing of the devices created, professional support from partners of the incubator, support for the project at the implementation stage, and help in finding an investor.
Denis Gusev, Head of ROC IC Sports Technology Incubator, said, "Participation in the GenerationS accelerator is an important step for ROC IC in building a sustainable ecosystem for development of sports startup projects. Collaboration with RVC in selecting and supporting projects gives us a unique tool for the timely identification of the most promising projects in the sports industry."
Gulnara Bikkulova, Director of Innovation Market Department and Member of the Board of RVC, said, "The results of collection of applications for GenerationS-2015 have shown that life science is a popular trend among young entrepreneurs. Through participation of such a strong partner as the ROC Innovation Center is, we can give these entrepreneurs more opportunities for development and advancement of their projects."
