NPO Saturn became the GenerationS 2015 accelerator's Corporate Partner

GenerationS has been held by RVC since 2013 with the support of Russian corporations, development institutions, and representatives of venture infrastructure. During the acceleration, the best projects selected by the results of a multi-stage examination gain an intensive development and opportunities for investments. In 2015, GenerationS will be held in close cooperation with major Russian corporations interested in finding promising innovative technologies through the regional partner network of GenerationS. This network combines startup schools, business incubators, universities, and other participants in the innovation ecosystem working with startups exhibiting investment perspective and technically feasible developments.

NPO Saturn will be the major Corporate Partner of GenerationS industrial track for high-tech and industrial tools for the aerospace industry (GenerationS Aerospace). Based on the competition's results, Samara "Regional Center for Innovation" (RCI) was selected GenerationS Aerospace track's operator. A number of acceleration events for technological entrepreneurs of different stages will be held as part of cooperation between RVC, NPO Saturn and RCI. "Participation in the national acceleration program as an industrial partner, it is the opportunity to elaborate an innovation network around the company made of team projects with interesting developments, – says Ilya Fedorov, Executive Director of NPO Saturn. – We hope that there will be many different projects. Of course, we, like any engineering company, are interested in start-ups in the field of additive technologies, new materials and processing techniques, engineering projects, robotics, software associated with the modelling and calculation, etc. All of this is of a great interest for our business and is required by all the high-tech companies operating in global markets. Another important moment for the development of our internal competencies is the fact that the best specialists of Saturn will become experts for the applications consideration and mentors for the projects, it will let us look beyond the current technical capabilities, see prospects in interdisciplinary areas. For us, GenerationS is the next step of "Saturn" into open innovations, and we are glad that we are making it together with such an experienced partner as RVC".

NPO Saturn participation in GenerationS is a pilot format of use of the "open innovations" tools in the corporate environment. RVC CEO and Chairman of the Board Igor Agamirzyan notices:"The GenerationS goal is to ensure synergy of major Russian innovation corporations and promising technological projects offering solutions that are required by these corporations even today. Using the GenerationS opportunities, RVC together with NPO Saturn is going to support the projects that will be required including by innovation enterprises of territorial cluster "Gas turbine and power plant engineering" in Yaroslavl region. Thus, the agreement will help to attract new high-tech projects in the cluster's innovation environment and will become an important step in implementing Saturn's initiative to create an innovation infrastructure around the company".

Sergey Bogdanov, RCI NP Executive Director:"Being the operator of the AeroSpace track of GenerationS accelerator, we are planning to involve the greatest country universities training specialists and engaged in the research work in areas which are attractive for both corporate partners of the accelerator and other leading companies in the aerospace industry. And, as inter-industry relations are more relevant today like never before, we will invite to participate in GenerationS the projects whose connection with the aerospace industry may not be obvious, but which can solve any problem in production, safety issues, IT or management efficiency".