Katerina Tikhonova Foundation will be engaged in the "Technology Transfer"

On May 22, the National Foundation "Intellectual Development" (operates under the Innopractics brand) registered the subsidiary of the National Association of Technology Transfer.

The director of the association was Egor Shipitsyn, a former assistant to the chairman and press secretary of the court of intellectual rights . The second founder of the association was the Federal Institute of Industrial Property - the structure of Rospatent, processing patent applications.

The director of Innopractics is Katerina Tikhonova, who, according to Reuters , is his daughter to President Vladimir Putin. Putin himself did not confirm and did not refute this statement.

How exactly the association will work and what technologies are we talking about is still unclear. Shipitsyn refused to comment on these issues. The transference of technology is usually understood to refer to the transfer of rights to the results of intellectual activity and intellectual property.

“NATT is designed to unite participants in the technology transfer market to increase the efficiency of their interaction, the development of competencies and skills of participants in the technological transfer by exchanging the best practices and introducing professional, including international, standards, as well as to promote the improvement of the legislative and regulatory framework,” the Republic of Board of the Association and Head of the Board of the Association and the Head said in a response to a request from the Board of the Board of Association The Department of Work with the Intellectual Property of Innopractics Alexei Lonekov.

He added that the new organization will engage in the legal support of the technology transfer, training, information support, and so on.

According to Lineov, "the budget of the association consists of membership dues and does not imply state funding." The association does not yet have members, it is assumed that it will “unite universities, scientific centers, industrial enterprises, representatives of the venture industry, development institutions, technological brokers and other representatives of service infrastructure”.