Developers: | Moscow Innovation Cluster (MIC Foundation), Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development of the city of Moscow |
Date of the premiere of the system: | 2020/04/20 |
Last Release Date: | 2023/03/20 |
Branches: | Internet services |
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The i.moscow IT platform provides services and technologies for interaction. Its task is to create convenient digital solutions and an information ecosystem for the development of innovative projects.
2023
"Prototype Factory" helps Mos-Kovsky entrepreneurs quickly find performers of their orders
Finding reliable contractors is a real headache for tech companies and inventors. Moreover, reliability is not the only criterion, a combination of quality, time and financial costs is important. How to urgently manufacture the necessary spare parts, a prototype product or, for example, art objects? The free service "Prototype Factory" of the Moscow Innovation Cluster helps businesses save both time and money: here you can find a variant for the manufacture of new products, and analogues of parts and products for import substitution. Read more here.
Integration of the Tinkoff ID online authorization service
and Tinkoff Moscow government integrated online service-authorizations Tinkoff ID to the portal Mos.ru and other city digital resources, including the portal ": MIC Foundation i.moscow - IT platform" (i.moscow). This was reported on April 25, 2023 in Tinkoff. More. here
Release of the service "Protect ideas and developments"
Moscow Innovation Cluster (MIC) announced the service "Protect ideas and developments," which will allow technological entrepreneurs to quickly and free of charge record on the intellectual rights results of creative activity and in - to protect investments scientifically technical developments. This was reported on March 20, 2023 in. Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development of the city of Moscow
This service will protect the investments of entrepreneurs in research activities and help secure the exclusive right and priority for the results of intellectual labor for companies. The service's virtual navigator will streamline intellectual property objects, and MIK employees will help form an economically significant portfolio of rights, thereby increasing the company's capitalization. The business will be able to use the identified intangible assets to attract borrowed financing and investments, told the head of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development of the city of Moscow Alexey Fursin.
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Using the service on the digital platform i.moscow, it will be possible to register rights to any results of creative activity in the scientific and technical field. To do this, you need to choose the industry in which the company operates and the result of creative activity that needs to be registered. After that, fill in the information about the authors, the date of creation and the costs incurred to create intellectual work. Further, information about the object will be included in the register of the Russian Center for the Circulation of Rights to the Results of Creative Activity - РЦИС.РФ.
Since 2018, investments in intellectual property have doubled and amounted to a trillion rubles. These intangible assets must be properly accounted for and effectively managed. Digitalization allows you to solve these problems. I am convinced that the intellectual rights management service will allow innovators to structure assets and increase the capitalization of their companies, considers the chairman of the RCIS Andrei Krichevsky.
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The register is built on blockchain technology, which allows you to record information about the result of intellectual activity, its copyright holders and the life cycle of all types of intellectual property. This record cannot be deleted or falsified. This will guarantee the safety and invariability of the data and will give the inventors a weighty argument in case of disputes.
At the same time , in the personal account on the i.moscow platform there is an online calculator that will allow you to calculate the cost of the object of intellectual rights and take into account all the costs of its creation. Integration with the РЦИС.РФ will automatically add all patents and trademarks belonging to it to the personal profile of the company.
Members of the Moscow Innovation Cluster receive comprehensive support in the field of patenting - compensate for the cost of registering inventions and utility models in Russia and abroad in the amount of 75 thousand rubles and up to 2 million rubles, respectively, and can also use the guarantee of the Moscow Guarantee Fund on the security of intellectual rights to obtain a loan.
2022
Service for the protection of the rights of Russian inventors
On June 22, 2022, the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development of the city of Moscow announced that the i.moscow service has a flexible criteria system that will help select the right partner for the provision of services for the protection of intellectual rights.
The service "Navigator of services in the field of intellectual property" has appeared on the platform of the Moscow Innovation Cluster (MIC). It allows you to select law firms and patent attorneys to help everyone protect their developments. Their services are offered by specialists who have many years of experience in registering and protecting intellectual rights in various fields - from information and communication technologies, medicine and pharmaceuticals to instrument making, power and transport.
"Technology companies work and develop their business in Moscow. Therefore, it is important for us to create services for entrepreneurs. The IT platform of the Moscow Innovation Cluster is one of the key elements of the capital's digital ecosystem. More than 34 thousand participants and partners have already used services, development programs and measures to support innovative business on the i.moscow portal. The platform daily helps metropolitan innovators implement projects and create products that are useful to both the city and residents, " noted Eduard Lysenko, Minister of the Government of Moscow, Head of the Moscow Department of Information Technologies |
The service "Navigator of services in the field of intellectual property" helps entrepreneurs find Russian companies specializing in copyright protection. To make the search quick and accurate, a filter was developed for users. They can select organizations by the types of services provided, scientific and technical specialization, the type of results of intellectual activity, the region and the cost of the service.
Among the partner organizations of the Moscow Innovation Cluster are proven legal companies and patent attorneys who have the necessary competencies and experience. Accredited organizations, for example, included the Skolkovo Intellectual Property Center, VKO-Intellect, and the Gorodissky & Partners law firm.
"Companies can protect their developments with the help of patent attorneys who will register the rights to the result of intellectual activity, conduct patent and information research, provide legal services and create an individual system for managing their intellectual property for businessmen," |
All participants of the Moscow Innovation Cluster registered on the i.moscow platform can use the service navigator or join the number of partner organizations. Also, MIC participants have access to all the capabilities of the cluster, including special types of support.
Digital service to support import substitution "Own Technologies"
On April 21, 2022, the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development of the city of Moscow announced that the i.moscow digital platform of the Moscow Innovation Cluster presented the "Own Technologies" service. He combined different solutions to support enterprises involved in import substitution. The aggregator helps to find tools and business partners for the development of its business, including suppliers from among Russian companies, said Deputy Mayor of Moscow Natalya Sergunina.
"This section on the i.moscow platform contains all existing import substitution tools in the city. These are not only financial support measures, but also services for finding partners, specialists, premises, technologies and investments. There are 11 programs, their list will be replenished, " noted Natalia Sergunina, Deputy Mayor of Moscow |
The catalog of products and services of domestic companies is collected in the section "Moscow Marketplace." As of April 2022, it combines over 500 thousand products and about 100 thousand services.
A single resource provides a service for selecting premises for rent for localization of production. The "Map of Innovative Solutions" contains technologies ready for implementation, as well as requests for the search for products and services for the city.
Contract Production Exchange is a tool for searching for orders and contractors in any region of Russia. It guarantees the opportunity to choose the best offer by price, timing and logistics. The service allows entrepreneurs to produce products without additional investments, and potential performers to download free capacity and receive additional profit.
If companies have not been able to find support on their own, they can refer to the "Search for Partners" section. The solution allows you to issue an application for the search for technology, specialists, investments and solve other production problems.
The service "Own Technologies" on i.moscow also contains all measures of financial support for technological entrepreneurship from the Moscow Government:
- a grant in the amount of 75 thousand rubles for patenting an invention in Russia no later than 12 months before the date of application;
- a grant of up to two million rubles for pilot testing of innovations in the city;
- an innovative voucher that allows you to pay up to 70 percent of the costs, but not more than two million rubles for patenting inventions abroad;
- return of up to 50 percent of the cost of buying equipment, leasing, payment of interest on loans;
- a grant in the amount of up to 100 million rubles for the creation or development of import-substituting products;
- concessional loans for investment purposes. Small enterprises can get a loan at seven percent per annum, average - at 5.5 percent. The rate is subsidized by the Moscow Government.
Updating the design of the main page in the organization's personal account
On January 21, 2022, DIT of Moscow announced that the personal accounts of legal entities and individuals were updated on the platform of the Moscow Innovation Cluster (MIC) i.moscow.
As reported, all registered users in their accounts have an interactive dashboard with basic information about the sections "Home Page," "Profile," "Cluster," "Services," "Development Programs," "Support Measures and Applications." In addition, a technical support page was created with a specially configured chatbot.
As of January 2022, about 33 thousand personal accounts of organizations and 50 thousand individuals were registered on the i.moscow platform, each of them is a digital workspace for using the services of an innovation cluster. The purpose of introducing updates is to enable entrepreneurs to use platform services. Based on the results of analyzing requests and responses from portal users, an updated version of the personal account has been developed. Changed structure and navigation, added additional sections. told Eduard Lysenko, Minister of the Government of Moscow, Head of the Department of Information Technologies of Moscow |
On i.moscow, everyone can find a partner for their project. Updated personal accounts will allow users to better navigate the infrastructure that the city provides to users. And it is quite diverse. First of all, these are development programs - the Academy of Innovators and technological competitions, piloting sites, investments, as well as financial support measures provided by the Moscow Government. commented Alexey Fursin, Head of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development of the city of Moscow |
In the personal account of the organization (legal entity or individual entrepreneur), the design of the main page has been updated, the main sections began to be displayed on it. In your Profile, you can now edit your organization information. In addition, a tool for managing company proxies has appeared: a special page where the manager can add his proxies.
A number of significant changes occurred in such subsections of the organization's personal account as "Property Complex" and "Premises for Rent." Search by name and filters for the list of own objects appeared, the interface of the form of creating your own objects was optimized: classification by type was added, the settings for dependencies between parameter sets (area, price, location) and object type (warehouse, industrial or office space) were introduced. Also, you can now specify specialized parameters for the search. For example, the year the building was built, the presence of cranes and freight elevators.
On the i.moscow platform, it became possible to search for rental objects directly from your personal account and view those for which applications had already been submitted.
In order for the participants and partners registered on the platform to work conveniently, the "Cluster" section was created. It combines updated subsections such as Partner Search and Intersectoral Clusters and allows users to interact with each other more easily and easily.
And to solve the problems of organizations related to the production, real estate, finance, intellectual property, search and promotion of products and services, a section has appeared that combines free online services. All services used by the organization and statistics on them are now displayed on the start page as an interactive dashboard. The updated section of the personal account includes such subsections as "Contract Production Exchange," "Space and Coworking Space Lease," "Patent Exchange," "Premises for Rent," "Factoring," "Product and Service Marketplace" and "Register of Contracts." Each of them has updated navigation, and to switch between platform services, you do not need to leave the organization's personal account.
To develop projects and startups, a section "Development Programs" has been created. Here, users can solve problems related to finding technological partners, attracting venture capital investments, piloting technologies and solutions, as well as scaling and entering foreign markets using the capabilities of i.moscow.
Changes were also made in the section of applications. Now they are grouped depending on their working state: "Waiting for a response," "Drafts," "In progress," "Completed," the application also displays the status of consideration (approved or rejected) and expert comments. It has become more convenient to search for created applications in your personal account: now notifications about changes in the status of applications are displayed in the header, and when you click on the section, you can see all applications grouped by states. In addition, they can be searched by names, as well as filtered according to platform services.
For ease of use, the profile structure of the user's office has been changed. It now includes sections such as "Personal Account Home Page," "Profile," "Cluster," "Services," "Development Programs and Support Measures," and also expanded the set of information that the user can specify about himself.
Also, the main page of the personal account now displays information about cluster development services and programs, which can help users create their own project, find a team and partners.
To take advantage of all the possibilities of the innovation cluster, individuals who are representatives of a legal entity or an individual entrepreneur can add the organization's office directly in their personal account. To do this, they will need the electronic signature of this organization. After that, it will be possible to switch between personal accounts and have access to all platform services.
2020
Starting factoring
The factoring service has been launched on the portal of the Moscow Innovation Cluster. DIT of Moscow announced this on September 14, 2020. This is a set of financial services for manufacturers and suppliers who conduct their trading activities on a deferred payment basis in exchange for the assignment of their receivables. Factoring enables the supplier to receive the bulk of the payment for an item as soon as it is delivered.
According to Deputy Mayor of Moscow Natalya Sergunina, the service developed by the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development together with the Department of Information Technology allows entrepreneurs to go through all stages - from applying to signing an agreement - online, as well as choose the most attractive offers from partner factors with a guarantee of the safety of operations.
Thanks to the factoring aggregator, entrepreneurs can choose favorable options. No pledge or surety is required. The service will help to quickly reimburse production costs, replenish working capital and plan new contracts, - said Natalya Sergunina. |
To use the online service, an entrepreneur needs to become a member of the Moscow Innovation Cluster by registering on the i.moscow IT platform. Further, in your personal account, you can apply for factoring, select proposals received from partner-factors and conclude an agreement in electronic form.
The service enables cluster members to attract financial resources from a bank or factoring company in anticipation of receiving payments from the main customer. Factoring also allows you to reduce risks and ensure the liquidity of products, "said Alexey Fursin, head of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development of Moscow. |
To issue an application in your personal account, the user needs to select the "Factoring" section. Next, indicate the contract in which the participant of the Moscow Innovation Cluster is the supplier, and click on the button "Create a factoring request." In the application form that opens, participant data will already be automatically entered, but you can adjust it manually if necessary. Then the user needs to enter the details and contacts of the company or individual entrepreneur, upload the necessary documents and click on the "Submit application" button.
After submitting an application, the participant can wait for responses from the factor partners. In your personal account, you can see all the status of the application and notifications informing users about the stages of the process. At the last stage, the participant selects the most suitable offer for him, signs a three-way contract between the supplier, customer and factor partner in electronic form and waits for the receipt of funds.
Smart contracts allow you to view documents with an enhanced electronic signature at a time convenient for partners. Blockchain guarantees the invariability and reliability of data on transactions. All information is reliably protected and cannot be corrected or deleted, "said Eduard Lysenko, Minister of the Moscow Government, Head of the Information Technology Department. |
Inclusion of InfoWatch ARMA in the ecosystem
On June 26, 2020, InfoWatch announced that its ARMA product received the status of an innovative project and became part of the ecosystem of the Moscow Innovation Cluster. Now, the means of protecting industrial information security using InfoWatch ARMA are available to ecosystem residents and their partners. Read more here.
Integration with Vendor Portal
On April 20, 2020, the Moscow City Department for Competition Policy announced that the Electronic Catalog of the Supplier Portal will be available for participants in the Moscow Innovation Cluster. Bilateral integration will expand the functionality of both resources and give their users new capabilities.
Participants of the Moscow Innovation Cluster (MIC) will have the opportunity to post information about their products on the Supplier Portal - a single procurement showcase for the city of Moscow and a convenient Internet site for interaction of small and medium-sized businesses with executive authorities.
An electronic catalog with a built-in classifier, an understandable interface and convenient management will become available to them after the integration of the MIK IT platform with the Supplier Portal is completed. To add the product to users of the i.moscow platform, it will be enough to fill out the form and specify the necessary characteristics, and the information will be posted on the portal zakupki.mos.ru.
"Bilateral integration will allow members of the Moscow Innovation Cluster to receive information about new placed purchases and quotation sessions, to use the active product base, which already includes more than 480 thousand items as of April 2020. And for the Supplier Portal, this is an opportunity to attract new participants, including manufacturers, to expand the catalog of industrial and innovative products. Thus, the platforms saturate each other, developing smart and convenient services for users, " |
For users of the two systems, the existing familiar business processes will remain. However, a general replenished catalog of Moscow suppliers and manufacturers of products will become available.
"We are constantly improving the functionality of the Cluster IT platform to make it more convenient and useful for MIC participants. Integration of i.moscow with the Supplier Portal will open access to an extensive database of products and manufacturers and create additional benefits for organizations registered on the platform, " |
"Every month, on average, three thousand entrepreneurs are registered on the supplier portal. Its integration with the Moscow Innovation Cluster will provide another incentive for the development of public-private partnership. Single-entry platforms are becoming more user-friendly, simplifying procurement participation, and removing another barrier to small and medium-sized businesses. As of April 2020, both B2B sites and electronic stores are already operating with the supplier portal using this technology, " noted' Vladimir Efimov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Economic Policy and Property and Land Relations " |
"The supplier portal has proven itself as an effective tool, thanks to which entrepreneurs from different regions of Russia can optimize their costs, reduce costs, and also expand the sales market, while saving on marketing and advertising costs. Integration with the Moscow Innovation Cluster will help create a unique digital system to expand the interaction between the city and business, as well as to increase the transparency of the procurement market, " noted Ivan Shcherbakov, Head of Competition Policy Department |
When entering product information in the company's personal account on the MIK IT platform, automatic authorization takes place on the supplier portal. If desired, the participant can easily follow the link with the supplier portal offers and register the publication. Access to the service will be given to participants authorized under the company account using the EDS or registered as proxies.
As noted in the Moscow Department of Competition Policy, the Cluster members have access to all possible tools for developing innovations, finding clients and partners. The IT platform i.moscow provides services and technologies for interaction.