Biography
2023: Regional Representative of the Skolkovo Innovation Center
The seventh regional representative of the Skolkovo Innovation Center was Elena Ermolina, First Deputy General Director of the Business Development Center of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug JSC. The partnership will develop technological entrepreneurship in the region and an innovative ecosystem in the Arctic zone. The Skolkovo Foundation announced this on July 7, 2023.
The status of a regional representative will provide an opportunity to both develop the region as a whole and its individual components. NAO companies will have access to the services of the Skolkovo Innovation Center to support the commercialization of their technologies, integration into the technological chains of large business, entry into new markets and other advantages.
Elena Ermolina has extensive experience in working with the entrepreneurial community of the region, is the head of the investment project support department in the NAO, including residents of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation with a portfolio of 16 projects worth 200 billion rubles, the head of the management companies of the tourist and recreational and IT clusters of the NAO, including 123 participants, and is also a representative of the Innovation Assistance Fund since 2019.
The official representative of Skolkovo is a responsible and important role, involving painstaking work to solve a whole range of tasks aimed at building an innovative ecosystem in its region. We are always ready to support active people who come up with an initiative to take on such a role. In the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, we see the greatest potential for development in the field of IT and biotechnology, moreover, 2 NAO companies with the support of Elena Ermolina have already successfully presented their projects, - said Yuri Sibirsky, Director of the Regional Development Department of the Skolkovo Foundation. |
I have been working with innovations in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug since 2019. The status of the regional representative of the Skolkovo Innovation Center will expand the possibilities for implementing technological projects, including promoting innovative developments of regional entrepreneurs to new markets and raising events to popularize technological entrepreneurship by Skolkovo speakers to a new level. In addition, together with Skolkovo, I plan to work with the youth of the district, to involve it in the topic of innovation, "said Elena Ermolina, First Deputy General Director of the Business Development Center of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug JSC. |
Also, as part of the creation of an innovative ecosystem in the region, Elena takes part in a project for to construction IT a park. The project is aimed at making the Nenets Autonomous Okrug an innovative and technological headliner of the Arctic zone and expanding its presence in the domestic and international market, focusing on the release of specific implemented IT projects and solutions. The main investor in the IT park is M-AiTiNAO, a regional IT company implementing projects in the field. telemedicine