Technopark Russian - innovative development of budget billions

Initial event

On June 4, 2018, at the meeting with the residents of the FEFU technopark, the director of the technopark and the university rector voiced the plenipotentiary amount for the design and construction of the “Russian Technopark” on Fr. Russian is 0.3 and 5.7 billion rubles, respectively. It is planned that the area of the technopark will be 80,000 sq.m. The need is motivated by the fact that the concept of the FEFU development laid down the construction of a technopark, as well as the fact that 2000 sq. m of premises that the university has allocated for the technopark should, according to the FEFU management, be over by the autumn of 2018. The money for the design and construction is planned to be allocated from the development fund of the Far East [1].

What is it? The next global election promises? Or just PR before the mass submission of documents by applicants?
In order to at least somehow answer this question, it is necessary to dive into the history of innovation in FEFU, to see the practice in the Russian Federation and not in the Russian Federation, to identify needs and see the possibilities.

The history of innovation and incubators Vladivostok

1. Until 2008, it was not very interesting for everyone (the general public of bureaucrats, including those from science and education) about innovations, until presidential candidate Medvedev presented his presidential economic program.
2. The FRAU business incubator Terra Creativa was created in 2011 as a division of the innovation infrastructure of the Far Eastern Federal University and "... represents a unique infrastructure platform where ideas are transformed into projects and move towards commercialization ...".
The total area of the business incubator is more than 500 square meters, of which the recreational zone includes negotiation zones equipped with the necessary equipment for holding teleconferences, presentations, meetings, seminars and other events; there are 35 workplaces equipped and equipped with special office furniture, office equipment, Internet access, access to reference and information systems.
Location: Vladivostok, ul. Aleut 65 b, 5 floor and room number 504.
The place chosen is excellent - it was the building of the FENU Scientific Library built in 2007. The interiors are fresh, photos of the events were excellent for the reports.

3. Then, in 2013, a move to the FEFU Russian campus island, building A, level 5, co-working Ajax for the business incubator, a new room of 1200 square meters was prepared.
Around 2015, the business incubator was disbanded by the then leadership of the university.

4. In 2017, the FEFU business incubator was re-created under the name STARTUPOLIS.
"... The purpose of the STARTUPOLIS business incubator is: to create and support (incubate) small enterprises that carry out innovative projects at an early stage of their activity by leasing equipped premises and providing consulting, accounting, legal and other services for preferential terms. Key areas of work business incubator: information technologies, new devices and hardware systems, modern materials and technologies for their manufacture, other areas that meet priority areas of development Russian Federation tions. At present, the business incubator FEFU STARTUPOLIS works on organization of the internal spaces for collaboration (co-working area). All information on the business incubator can be obtained from the Department of innovative development FEFU ... ".
Location: Vladivostok, about. Russian, pos. Ajax, FEFU, building 20, B717, B730
5. In the same year of 2017, during the Eastern Economic Forum, FEFU together with Skolkovo opened the Russian Technopark. And it seems like now the technopark area is 2000 sq. M on the FEFU campus on Fr. Since the establishment of the steel park, 30 companies have become Russian residents.
Until 2015, the business incubator was the structure of the innovation department, the department was subordinate to the vice-rector for science and innovation, which was subordinate to the rector. Those who came across state purchases will understand the pain of this decision when they need to buy something quickly, and everything is not so simple.
According to the Russian legislation, a business incubator is an organization that solves the problems of supporting small, newly created enterprises and start-up entrepreneurs who want, but do not have the opportunity to start their own business related to helping them create viable, commercially viable products and efficient production based on their ideas.
Keyword "productions". With the production of all the sad. It seems like there is equipment, but it is impossible to legally use production services for a reasonable price.

2. Peeped from them (cut of 2011)
What is declared in the USA:

Business incubators help entrepreneurs who are agents of change and catalysts for the economic growth of the region and the country as a whole.

Small business in the USA (less than 100 employees):

more than 89% of all employees;
from 60% to 80% of all new jobs;
97% of all product experts;
generate 13-14 times more patents per employee than large firms

Factors:

More than half of the companies in 2009 were listed on the Fortune 500 during a recession or a stagnant market.

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Business incubator:

Mission: to help innovators commercialize their ideas, reduce risks to create a company and increase the chances of success.
Focus: entrepreneurship / high-risk technology communities.
Premises: laboratories, offices and cubes of various sizes and equipment.
Stages: sowing / startup / early stages / growth / expansion.
Areas: mixed types of technology (biomedicine, technology, software development).
Rental price: below market / basic services included.
Advantages: increase the speed of market entry and return on investment.

Access to collective services:

Mailbox / Postal Service.
Cubes, offices and laboratories (of various sizes).
Reservation of rooms for negotiation.
Internet access / connection and configuration services.
Providing copying equipment and fax.
24-hour access to the building (24/7).
The provision of utilities.
Parking.
Coffee machines.
Security Service.

Training programs to attract investment:

Entrepreneurs in the incubator (training).
Innovative research for small businesses, a review of search and offers.
Accounting software for small businesses.
Seminars and trainings on drawing up business plans.
Trainings for accountants of small enterprises.
Trainings and seminars on marketing and brands.
Legal seminars.
Training to attract investors and partners.
Seminars and monthly meetings of entrepreneurs.
Angelic forum (meetings and acquaintances).

This is a brief summary of almost any business incubator presentation. In 2011, within the framework of the SABIT, the following institutions visited the incubator of the New Jersey Institute of Technology [2], the Northern Virginia Technology Council [3] and the California Small Business Development Center [4].
I asked them about the best way to create an incubator, gave a link to the American Association of Business Incubators [5], saying that they should look there and that's all.
And to the question of what not to do, they answered that it was impossible to make a shopping center from the incubator to rent the premises.
Below are the insides of the incubators:

NJIT EDC:

NVTC:

SBDC:

The truffiest Californian with concrete walls. The cost for 2011 was about $ 50 per 4 sq. M (workplace in a cube + table, chair, Internet access).
Incubators are located near large settlements, and therefore in densely populated areas and near industrial and financial centers.

The funding map correlates with the density map:

Technopark Russian 2017 ...

In 2017, during the Eastern Economic Forum, the Russian Technopark was opened. Even solemnly accepted the first resident.
There are plans to build a separate technopark building with an area of 80,000 square meters for 6 billion rubles O_O.
This is about 75,000 rubles per square meter. m. (which corresponds to the construction of administrative buildings in the territory of Vladivostok). Most likely, this is only the walls, roof and the necessary minimum for the functioning of the property itself. Adequate technopark should assume equipment, heavy industrial equipment. This is exactly what is not known about the equipment (it is known in the meaning, but unofficially, and officially on the same FEFU site there is no information about the equipment available and the possibility of obtaining services for using this equipment for research or production purposes for money). Since 2007, universities that have now joined FEFU (FESU and FESTU) have purchased equipment with grants for billions of dollars, but where is this equipment, what condition is it after moving to Russian island, how loaded is it, and is it possible to get access to using this equipment to technopark residents is unclear. There is no specifics, there are only general phrases about centers of collective use and more opportunities for residents of the technopark in the future.
If it is planned to build a technopark with equipment, then there is no specifics about what kind of equipment it will be, how it will be possible to use it. When equipped with equipment, the total cost of the technopark will increase at least 2 times.
At the meeting on June 4, 2018 in FEFU, which was attended by the first residents of the FEFU technopark, the plenipotentiary Trutnev Yu.P. and acting Governor of Primorsky Krai A. Tarasenko the residents of the technopark asked for a lot and reasoned that they needed a technopark.
The FEFU management and the director of the technopark asked the plenipotentiary to allocate 6 billion rubles from the development fund of the Far East for the construction of a technopark of 80,000 square meters. m. As noted above - in this amount you can build office space without equipment. With the same Skolkovo, their built technopark has an area of 95,000 sq. M [9] with a construction cost of 12 billion rubles in 2016 prices [10]. Residents gather there from all over the country not only because the Skolkovo Technopark provides premises and equipment, but also because until 01.01.2019 all participants in the Skolkovo project must become residents of the Skolkovo Technopark, otherwise they will lose the status of the Skolkovo project participant and tax privileges. Technopark Russkiy does not offer anything yet, except for space and consulting services. Again, the population density of the Central Federal District is multiple times higher than the population density of the Far Eastern Federal District and companies are also multiple times smaller, therefore comparable areas are redundant. Even the areas currently existing in FEFU for a technopark of 2,000 square meters are not filled.

What can be stated on the current situation:
1. There is no adequate feasibility study of the need for precisely such large areas. There are only colorful presentations and throwing figures without calculations, based on the real situation of the economy.
2. The leadership of FEFU often changes: in 6 years there were 3 management personnel with their teams + criminal cases and arrests of managers. Therefore, any large-scale statements are regarded as pre-election campaigning, which almost always remains only campaigning without real incarnation.
3. The real term of designing such objects with the preparation of estimates and passing state examination for at least 1 year. Real construction lines for such an object, taking into account the preparation of tender documentation and bidding for at least 3 years. Thus, the technopark will be able to earn not earlier than 2022 in new areas.

Again, Vladivostok has the sad experience of building large-scale facilities in the face of Hyatt hotels (the start of construction is 2008, for 2018 they were not commissioned at a cost of more than 18 billion rubles). Chances are high that the construction of a technopark will repeat the fate of Hyatt.

In any case, there should be an alternative scenario. But before that the real needs of high-tech companies that are not in the field of pure software development.

Real needs

Production

Prototyping

If there is any device or mechanism in the idea, then it is necessary to create a prototype. Dendro-fecal technology has not been canceled, but to demonstrate to an investor or potential customers, it is desirable (mandatory) that the prototype should look adequately at the stated price. Laser-iron technology and parts printed on low-cost Chinese 3D printers can still be used to create a working prototype and demonstrate capabilities, then trouble with small-scale production.

Small batch production

In Vladivostok (or even Primorsky Krai) there are, of course, factories that make helicopters, repair ships and even make some kind of electronics for the military, so it’s legal to use their facilities to create a small series is unrealistic. Either they will request 100500 million at once, or they will shut up and stop coming to contact. Knowing the phone the right specialist question of course can advance, but only illegally and in cash. There are, of course, small workshops that carry out individual orders, but as a rule, it is turning out machine parts (cars, trucks, special equipment), it is also expensive and the turn is big, but also because of the large number of orders and the presence of a small amount of production equipment, frequent failures of this equipment and waiting in an unpredictable way stretches for weeks.
As an option to order in other regions, which is cheaper, but longer, or in China, which is cheaper and faster, but you need to be careful with both the Chinese and customs.
We need production equipment in the technopark. Production is in demand, but the choice of machines and equipment is limited. In 2011-2012, the creation of a center for collective use was voiced where enterprises could transfer working equipment for renewal of funds for conditional compensation, and this equipment could be used to produce low-precision manufacturing and to train technicians to work on equipment. In 2017, the Department of Economic Development of the Primorsky Territory planned to create an Engineering Center [8], but for some reason, in the form of a consulting services center ... So far, everything has been multiplied by zero.

Market entry

To the Russian market

Need certification, lobbying, distribution. But for the Far East, the Russian market is a large transportation cost. The market is only near Moscow and Leningrad regions. Then everything is much smaller in volume:

To the Asian market (China, South Korea, Japan)

All the same certification, lobbying and distribution, only taking into account the specifics of the markets. For 30 years, we have been well sharpened to find, bring, discharge and sell products made in the PRC, Japan, South Korea and the USA. In the opposite direction while much less flow of goods.
Again, if you look from east to west, then the market is quite capacious beyond the borders of the Russian Federation:

Marketing

Marketing does not exist .
But it is necessary to advertise goods and somehow promote them in the markets. Small companies, namely, usually technoparks and business incubators are guided by them, can hardly afford to hire marketers for each market.

Intellectual property protection

Rescues the CIS Skolkovo. There are no local experts. Well, that is Of course, they are, but they do not advertise themselves. It seems that they are waiting for people to go to them themselves. Again, in Asia, its specific IP protection.

Investments and preferences

On the current date, Technopark Russky does not give any preferences over tax legislation for residents. It seems like they are promising, jointly with Skolkovo, to make it possible for regional companies to maintain the status of a participant in the Skolkovo project if they become a resident of an accredited regional technopark.
For the time being, companies that are in Skolkovo are residents of the Free Port of Vladivostok, one of the territories of priority development or a free economic zone (if these still remain), have preferences.
Funding and investment that differ from the federal (IIDF, Innovation Promotion Fund, Skolkovo Foundation, RVC) are almost imperceptible. Interesting experience DI-Group and Tomsk State University [6]. In FEFU in this regard, everything is sad (or the information is not advertised).

One of the options

FEFU in the mainland of Vladivostok has buildings left that previously housed different departments of universities united in FEFU [7]:

No	Name	Address	Purpose	Area, square m
one	Building	Vladivostok, Ekipazhnaya str., 18	Educational and Laboratory	2445.6
2	Building (lit.D, D1, D2)	Vladivostok, Ekipazhnaya str., 18	Educational and Laboratory	872.2
3	Building - FESTU (lit.1)	Vladivostok, st. Pushkinskaya 10	Educational and Laboratory	2761.2
four	Building - FESTU (lit.1,1A, B, C, D)	Vladivostok, st. Pushkinskaya 27	Educational and Laboratory	2319.4
five	Building - FESTU (lit.2)	Vladivostok, st. Pushkinskaya 10	Educational and Laboratory	1665,4
6	Building - FESTU (lit.3)	Vladivostok, st. Pushkinskaya 10	Educational and Laboratory	1247
7	Building - FESTU (lit.4)	Vladivostok, st. Pushkinskaya 10	Educational and Laboratory	770.3
eight	Building - FESTU (lit.5)	Vladivostok, st. Pushkinskaya 10	Educational and Laboratory	1299.5
9	Building - FESTU (lit. 6,7, 6A-extension, 7A-extension)	Vladivostok, st. Pushkinskaya 10	Educational and Laboratory	3398.9
ten	Building - FESTU (lit.8)	Vladivostok, st. Pushkinskaya 10	Educational and Laboratory	329.7
eleven	Building - educational building (lit. In)	Vladivostok, Ocean Avenue, 19	Educational and Laboratory	2525.7
12	Building - educational building (lit. D)	Vladivostok, Ocean Avenue, 19	Educational and Laboratory + bomb shelter	8159.9
13	Building - educational building (lit.B)	Vladivostok, Ekipazhnaya str., 18	Educational and Laboratory	407.9
14	FENU building (lit. 1, 1A extension, 1B extension, 1B extension)	Vladivostok, Sukhanov str., 8	Educational and Laboratory	4891.6
15	The building of the academic building (lit. A)	Vladivostok, st. October 27	Educational and Laboratory	10333
sixteen	The building of the building of FENU (lit. 1)	Vladivostok, Ocean Prospect, 37	Educational and Laboratory	2791.5
17	Library building (lit. A, A1)	Vladivostok, st. Aleut 65b	Educational and Laboratory	9191,6
18	Educational building (lit. 1)	Vladivostok, Ocean Prospect, 39	Educational and Laboratory	5990.6
			Total:	61401

At the date of publication, the area of real estate objects on the mainland part of Vladivostok, which are under the operational management of FEFU, is more than 60,000 sq. M. and many premises are empty, FEFU pays for their protection, pays taxes, pays utility bills.

There is a proposal for embassies not to allocate money from the Far Eastern development fund for the construction of the Russian Technopark, but to oblige FEFU to use the existing real estate objects for the technopark, re-equip them and purchase equipment (for prototyping and small-scale production).
It is more likely to gradually introduce 2000-5000 square meters of space for a technopark per year if there are residents ready to use the services of a technopark than to bury billions in construction of facilities for which the need has not been proven.

This would save a lot of money on construction, speed up the process of creating a technopark, would allow choosing the most suitable areas for the residents of the technopark ...
We need support from the state and large companies to enter Asian markets for Far Eastern companies.

And what?

And nothing. In the literal sense, nothing yet. There are the next beautiful pictures and loud promises.
Instead of using the existing buildings on the mainland of the city with an area of more than 60000 square meters. m, the proposed construction of the building area of 80,000 square meters. m. Instead of real assistance in the production and promotion of the proposed rental of office space and the provision of consulting services.