Skolkovo performance indicators

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• Skolkovo Innovation Center
• Financing Skolkovo
• Skolkovo Resident Companies
• Skoltech (Skolkovsky Institute of Science and Technology, Skoltech)
• History Skolkovo

2020: Skolkovo fund residents' revenue growth by 60%, up to 160 billion rubles

In 2020, the total revenue of residents of Skolkovo funds amounted to 160 billion rubles, which is 60% more than a year earlier, when the figure was measured at 100 billion rubles. Such data on April 8, 2021 was presented by the chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation Arkady Dvorkovich. According to him, 20 billion rubles of investments were attracted, but we are talking about a small amount. More details here.

2019: Total revenue for all years - 400 billion rubles

At the end of 2019, the revenue volume of Skolkovo member companies amounted to 100 billion rubles with an average growth rate of 36% over 3 years.

Skolkovo participants in 2019 paid taxes totaling 10 billion rubles. The Skoltech project at the same time entered the world ranking of the top 100 young universities.

Over the 10 years of its existence, the Skolkovo project was able to attract 130 billion rubles of private investment, while state investments amounted to 56 billion rubles.

This was stated by the head of the Board of Trustees of the Skolkovo Foundation, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, speaking at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Fund on June 3, 2020, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the project.

The most rapidly developing development direction within Skolkovo, according to Medvedev, is Promising Methods of Artificial Intelligence: Skolkovo participating companies in this segment increased turnover by 127% in 2019.

The head of the Skolkovo Foundation, Arkady Dvorkovich, in his speech added that at the beginning of 2020 the number of Skolkovo participating companies reached 2248 (a year earlier - 1896), the number of companies with revenue amounted to 1319, and with revenue of more than 100 million rubles per year - 257. The total revenue of participating companies during the existence of the Skolkovo project reaches 400 billion rubles.

2018: Total revenue for all years - 147 billion rubles, 27 thousand jobs

As of May 2018, startups that have undergone a special external technological examination are more than 1800. The total revenue of Skolkovo member companies for the period 2011-2016. exceeded 147 billion rubles. They created more than 27 thousand jobs, patented more than 1200 developments and technological solutions.

In 2016, Skolkovo participants located inside the ecosystem earned 9.6 billion rubles, in 2017 - 17.4, and in 2018 - already 27.2 billion. At the same time, 63% of residents of the technopark (including coworking), the Technopark office center and Hyperkub grew in revenue or at least maintain the level of 2017^[1].

2017

TsKP fulfilled orders for 136 million rubles

The Skolkovo technopark in February 2018 summed up the results of the first year of work: for example, exactly a year ago, the new building of the Technopark on the territory of the Skolkovo innovation center took the first residents within its walls. As of February 13, the technopark is 97.5% full, 204 companies are located in its offices and laboratories, another 210 have concluded contracts for work in coworking.

The capabilities and services of Technopark are used by 1,678 researchers and technology entrepreneurs.

In the first year of work in the technology park, 26% of resident companies attracted investments, 48% began to receive revenue. According to the technopark, moving to Skolkovo accelerates the startup's revenue growth by an average of 94%. The number of developments also increased: in the first half of 2017, startups received 46% more patents than in the same period of 2016.

The Technopark operates 16 collective use centers (CCP) with infrastructure for prototyping, computer engineering, microanalysis and various tests. They accelerate the commercialization of scientific and technical developments of residents. In 2017, the Central Control Committee completed 414 orders totaling 136 million rubles. In 2018, a full-fledged online platform will be launched to search for and order the services of collective use centers for everyone (including those not related to the Skolkovo ecosystem).

There is also a comfortable coworking service for residents and guests of Technopark, where there is everything necessary for productive work: meeting rooms, areas for meetings and leisure, round-the-clock access to the workplace and fast Internet.

At the end of 2017, a hackspace was opened in Technopark - a platform equipped with modern technological equipment for creating prototypes. Here on 500 sq.m. more than fifteen jobs equipped with modern 3D printers, machines and tools for mechanoprocessing, microelectronic soldering, etc. are placed.

Residents of the Skolkovo Biomedical Technology Cluster have the opportunity to get a laboratory for individual needs in 7 days, from the drawing to the delivery of keys. Or use SK BioLab, access to which is provided not only to the participants of the Skolkovo project, but also to anyone who is engaged in bio-research. The laboratory is designed for 40 + workplaces and is equipped with the necessary equipment for cellular and molecular measurements, tests and experiments. The minimum rental time is one day.

On the territory of Technopark there are support programs for 11 Russian accelerators, during the year 12 joint events were held with them.

At the end of 2017, a platform for searching for business partners of Business Meets was added to the services of service companies of the technopark (accounting, legal, translation and consulting center), and the Work in Skolkovo Telegram channel gained more than 6,000 subscribers in three months since launch. In December alone, 15 specialists found work in the companies participating in the fund with its help. At the request of residents, Technopark recruiters close complex, highly specialized positions. Residents and clients were provided with 1300 visa and migration services, 120 call campaigns were conducted, 500 mailings by base in 300 thousand addresses.

Forecast until 2020: revenue 44 billion rubles

According to the results of 2020, the revenue of Skolkovo residents will grow by a third compared to 2017 - from 33 to 44 billion rubles. The number of jobs in companies over the same period according to plans will increase from 25 to 35 thousand people, and the volume of extrabudgetary investments by 2.4 billion rubles - up to 10.9 billion. Such targets were announced in December 2017 at a meeting of the Board of the Skolkovo Foundation.

By the end of 2020, the Fund plans to commission facilities under construction on the territory of the innovation center, with an area of ​ ​ 1.1 million square meters. At the end of 2017, this figure will be 500 thousand square meters. In three years, 450 residents will be housed in Skolkovo buildings, compared to 300 in 2017, as well as 55 centers for research and development (R & D) partners. Now there are 25 such centers. The Fund also plans to increase the number of regional operators from two to seven by 2020.

Skolkovo Ventures will continue to develop. Created in 2017, Skolkovo Ventures should in the next three years increase the volume of assets in direct investment funds from 6.6 billion to 18.6 billion rubles. The return on investment in funds is expected at the level of 8 to 30% within 7-8 years. With the help of Skolkovo Ventures, the volume of investments invested in residents of the Fund is also projected to grow from 2.7 billion to 4.4 billion rubles. Non-residents in 2020 will receive financing in the amount of 2.2 billion rubles against 0.7 billion in 2017.

The rental space of Technopark in 2020 should be filled by 98% (90% according to the results of 2017), and the number of acceleration programs according to the plans will reach 12 (in 2017 there is one program). By this time, 450 residents will use the services of Technopark - in 2017 there are 180 such companies.

At the Council of the Fund, it was also decided to approve the allocation in 2018 of a grant to the Skolkovsky Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) in the amount of more than 5 billion rubles. The funds will be used to complete the construction of the Skoltech campus, which is due to be commissioned in May next year, and to begin work on the construction of a laboratory complex. The grant will also fund Skoltech's research projects and innovation programs.

2015: Grants issued for 1.7 billion rubles, 1432 participants

The total amount of grants allocated to residents of the Fund at the end of 2015 amounted to 1.7 billion rubles, and 17% accounted for micro- and mini-grants. The share of private co-financing under grant agreements was 47%.

In 2015, the Skolkovo investor pool was replenished with another 8 organizations, including the large Chinese fund Cybernaut Investment Group. In 2015, accredited investors conducted 25 transactions with Fund participants totaling 1.3 billion rubles. 19 Russian and foreign companies and organizations decided to open R & D centers in Skolkovo. "

• The annual growth of the Fund's participants amounted to 25%: 1,147 participants were at the end of 2014, 1,432 - at the end of 2015. At the same time , in 2015, 2653 applications for  the status of a resident of a technopark were accepted - this is almost  twice as much as  in 2014

• The expert panel of the Fund includes more than 680 experts, about 30% of which are foreign specialists

• The quality of the examination is guaranteed by the competence of experts, they include about 20 academicians and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, more than 150 professors of leading Russian universities, over 100 doctors of sciences of Western universities, more than 150 top managers and founders of companies. The experts are not staff members of the Fund and their identities are not known to the applicants or to the staff of the Fund working with the applicant.

• At the end of 2015, the list of accredited venture funds totaled 46 organizations, the volume of "soft" obligations of which amounted to almost 35 billion rubles, and "solid" - 5.7 billion rubles.

• Despite the negative economic situation, in 2015, 8 new funds were attracted, including the fund of the Cybernaut investment group from China, which was a milestone in the development of relations with partners from Southeast Asian countries. At the end of 2015, the number of transactions to attract investments exceeded 35.

• Since its inception, Skolkovo has submitted over 1,000 applications for registration of intellectual property and over 180 international patent applications for patents abroad.

2014

Second estimate: revenue 27.8 billion rubles

In 2014, participants in the Skolkovo project received revenue of 27.8 billion rubles, although the fund itself planned that they would receive income of about 2 billion rubles. This is stated in the Skolkovo annual report, which was presented to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on June 3, 2015 at the fund's board of trustees. The amounts of revenue were confirmed by representatives of Skolkovo^[2].

Small innovative companies received this income, said the representative of Skolkovo. According to him, planning revenue, the fund itself did not expect such a rapid growth in startup revenue.

In total, since 2010, Skolkovo has been counting on a total revenue of 5 billion rubles, but its projects have earned a total of 43.6 billion rubles, the Skolkovo representative adds.

The number of Skolkovsky projects increased to 1070. 45% of them were able to receive revenue, 3% of which were able to exceed income of 100 million rubles. In addition to the revenue of its projects in 2014, Skolkovo exceeded the plan for patent applications, receiving 645 applications with a planned 200. But Skolkovo almost fulfilled the plan to raise money, gaining 4.45 billion rubles. with a planned 4.5 billion rubles.

In 2014, Skolkovo approved grants for 1.5 billion rubles, most of which came from a cluster of energy-efficient technologies (457 million rubles), and the least - from an IT cluster (61 million rubles). In 2014, Skolkovo approved 55 of 350 applications for grants.

Since the beginning of the project, Skolkovo has approved grants in the amount of 10.6 billion rubles, of which it transferred 8.1 billion to projects.

First estimate: revenue for the year 16 billion rubles

In January 2015, representatives of Skolkovo announced that the total revenue of all Skolkovo residents in 2014 was about 16 billion rubles. The total revenue of the IT cluster participants amounted to about 10 billion rubles. compared to 5 billion in 2013^[3].

The total number of jobs (programmers, engineers, marketers, etc.): as of December 2014, 8.5 thousand work in the IT cluster (out of 14 thousand in all clusters).

The volume of private investments in IT cluster companies amounted to 1.3 billion rubles in 2014. This is quite a lot, given that the total volume of private investment in all Skolkovo residents was approximately 2.5 billion rubles.

But by the number of applications for registration of intellectual property (patents), the IT cluster does not lead - there were about 150 of them, in general for Skolkovo - about 550.

IT cluster revenue 15.7 billion rubles

In the fall of 2014, Skolkovo reported that the revenue of the IT cluster amounted to 15.76 billion rubles. It is followed by a cluster of energy-efficient technologies with an income of 3.29 billion rubles. The cluster of biomedical technologies earned 2.44 billion rubles, space technologies - 1.15 billion rubles, the cluster of nuclear technologies received revenue of 374 million rubles.

2013

Audit of the Accounts Chamber: more than 200 employees fined

On November 18, 2013 , the Accounts Chamber reported that in connection with the numerous violations identified earlier during the inspection at Skolkovo related to its activities and shortcomings in the organization of internal control, 10 disciplinary sanctions were applied to employees, including - to the top managers of the fund and its subsidiaries, and 211 employees did not receive full monetary remuneration for 2012.

The Accounts Chamber notes that even before the end of the audit, the fund prepared a plan of corrective measures for 2012-2013, which, in addition to fulfilling its requirements, also provided for a set of additional measures to improve the internal processes of Skolkovo's activities.

As of November 2013, this plan was almost fully implemented, including the requirements formulated in the submission of the Accounts Chamber. To develop criteria and indicators for the effectiveness of the Skolkovo project, the fund sent relevant proposals to the Ministry of Economic Development, which were taken as the basis for the formation of the subroutine "Creation and Development of the Skolkovo Innovation Center." In August 2013, it was approved by the government as part of the state program "Economic Development and Innovative Economy."

In the annexes to the state program, in accordance with the requirements of the Accounts Chamber, the corresponding targets (indicators) with planned intermediate values ​ ​ were approved. It is expected that this will allow to annually track the dynamics of the Skolkovo project.

Among the serious comments of the Accounts Chamber to Skolkovo was also the lack of legally approved project rules. In this regard, the fund prepared and improved more than 10 regulatory documents, in the development of which the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Education took part .

To strengthen the internal control system, the fund adopted more than 20 local documents, created 9 new structural divisions, the functions of which include the implementation of control powers at all stages of the Skolkovo project.

To organize the control of the activities of the Skolkovo project participants, in turn, the internal audit department of the fund began to systematically conduct field inspections, a total of 24 inspections are planned for 2013. The Accounts Chamber expects that this will allow monitoring the use of more than 30% of grants issued (up to 2 billion rubles).

Performance targets identified

Key performance indicators of the center have been identified. As a result of the subprogramme implementation, the number of applications for state registration of intellectual property objects submitted by participating companies should increase. If in 2012 there were 159 such applications, then by 2020 this figure should increase to 350. Thus, the accumulated number of applications will exceed 2000.

Another main indicator is the revenue of Skolkovo member companies obtained from the results of research activities. In 2012, it amounted to 1.2 billion rubles, and by 2020 the government intends to increase it to 100 billion rubles, that is, an amount comparable to the federal budget for the development of the center.

The number of graduates of the Skolkovsky Institute of Science and Technology by 2020 should be at least 1000 people, and the specific number of publications per 100 researchers should be in the range from 75 to 85.

The responsible executor of the subprogramme is the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Economic Development, the FCS and the non-profit organization "Development Fund of the Center for the Development and Commercialization of New Technologies"^[4]

As of March, 850 participants

The fund expects (March 2013) that by the end of 2013 the total revenue of participating companies will reach 2.2 billion rubles, the number of applications for intellectual property objects - 250, and jobs - 20 thousand.

The total number of Skolkovo participants as of March 2013 exceeded 850 organizations. In 2013, the fund begins dropping out of companies that received benefits or grants as residents of innograd, but at the same time do not engage in specialized business, or do not conduct any activities at all. The number of such, according to representatives of Skolkovo, can reach 7% of all participants.

2012: Results of the year: Revenue of 700 residents for two years 1.2 billion rubles, 12.5 thousand jobs

For two years of Skolkovo's work, the total revenue of its participants reached 1.2 billion rubles, the fund said in March 2013. Fund Vice President Alexander Chernov explained to TAdviser that the vast majority of this amount fell on IT cluster companies, the number of which at the beginning of 2013 exceeded 250 organizations.

Among other key achievements of the participants in the two-year period, the fund notes the submission of 143 applications for registration of intellectual property objects and the creation of more than 12.5 thousand jobs.

Two-year achievements of Skolkovo in working with partners include the signing of accreditation agreements in the amount of 19.6 billion rubles. from venture investors and attracting funding for grants of 1.1 billion rubles. The total volume of grants approved by Skolkovo for two years amounted to 9 billion rubles.

As of October 2012, there are almost 700 participants in five Skolkovo clusters.

2010: Results: 28 participants, 11 grants

On February 24, 2011, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met with Viktor Vekselberg, President of the Skolkovo Foundation. According to Vekselberg, for six months of work of the Skolkovo Foundation in 2010, 28 companies received the status of participants in the fund.

"11 of them have received Fund support grants because some companies do not need our funding. More than 3 billion rubles were allocated for these projects, three billion two hundred million, to be exact, "Vekselberg said. He also noted that the minimum contribution of the fund to the startup amounted to $600 thousand

"We have already built a common, as it seems to me, quite effective system of work of experts, created expert boards in all five areas. Mostly these are independent experts. And that, it seems to me, is a great advantage - the decisions are made by experts in the correspondence procedure, "said the president of the Skolkovo Foundation.