Innovation Department

Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University was among the first Russian universities to begin the formation of an innovative field and the creation of a favorable climate for innovative activities in the Novgorod region. The innovation management was established in order to coordinate the university innovative activities in 1994.

The innovative activity in NovSU is focused on creating, implementing and obtaining the economic, social and other types of effects from the implementing of the innovative products:

• education innovations are the results of innovative activities in the form of new training courses, specialties, areas of training and re-training, new education technologies;
• scientific and technical innovations are the results of innovative activities in the form of new equipment, materials, technologies, high-tech services and other high-tech products;
• innovations in management are the results of innovative activities in the form of new activity and business management technologies (including education);
• objects of industrial property and copyright implemented according to the laws of the Russian Federation.

As part of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation programme “On the state support for the development of innovative infrastructure in the federal higher vocational education institution” Novgorod State University implemented the project “Development of the NovSU innovative structures as a basic component of a regional innovation cluster” in terms of which training innovative entrepreneurship center, business incubator, innovation consulting center, forecasting laboratory center, and patenting center were established.

The development of the student construction department and the technological cluster continues. As a part of this project NovSU Innovation portal was created, one can take a close look at the infrastructure activities and small innovative enterprises production.

The main directions of NovSU small innovative enterprises activity are information technology and energy conservation, instrumentation and microelectronics, environmental and software development projects.

Innovative activity areas are:

• Commercialization of the NovSU of intellectual activity results;
• Development of innovative infra-structure for creating and supporting of innovative projects;
• Attracting of financial resources for the implementation of innovative projects and infrastructure development;
• Intellectual property management;
• Organization of the innovative projects examination;
• Consulting services in the innovative companies business area;
• Development of the NovSU cooperation with organizations of the real sector of economy;
• Advertising services.