Priority topics of the NTI roadmap. About the Technet Roadmap (advanced manufacturing technologies) of the National Technology Initiative

  • Basic principles
  • Markets
  • Implementation
  • International cooperation
  • Miscellaneous
  • What is on the agenda of the National Technology Initiative (NTI)? Is this about import substitution?

    The National Technology Initiative includes:

    • identification of new markets, including key demand drivers, key market niches and possible types of products and services that will fill these niches;
    • identifying key technologies that will help create products and services in new markets;
    • a set of support and incentive measures, including institutional, financial and research tools, allowing to grow national champion companies in new markets.

    NTI does not have the tasks of import substitution or modernization of existing industries. NTI involves the creation of strategies for developing fundamentally new markets. But some of the key technologies that form the predecessor markets for NTI markets may appear as part of the process of import substitution and modernization.

  • How does NTI relate to the existing system of government, the business community, the scientific system, the education system, etc.?

    NTI develops a matrix of priorities and communities around roadmaps for new markets and key technologies. From this matrix it follows:

    • setting tasks for fundamental and applied research;
    • policy in the field of advanced personnel training - and corresponding tasks for the education system;
    • priorities for investment in new industries by state-owned companies;
    • joint projects between society and business that do not require government participation;
    • directions of international technological cooperation.
  • Russia has already had enough initiatives in the field of technological development in recent years - why do we need another initiative?

    We have made many mistakes in managing innovation. Some of these mistakes were inevitable - we had no experience in building such management models, we sometimes thoughtlessly transferred Western institutions and memes to Russian soil, which worked brilliantly in the USA, but were not suitable in Russian conditions. Now we have gained experience, we understand what works and what doesn’t. At the same time, we cannot return to the USSR; restoring the Soviet system is counterproductive - the command-administrative system no longer exists. Even the USSR, which had the power of a superpower and a human potential of 270 million people, could not withstand the scientific and technological race in the 1970s and 80s. There is no reason to believe that in the second decade of the 21st century, with a potential of 143 million people, Russia will be able to restore the Soviet system, which was also not very effective. This will be a direct route to North Korea.

    In order to create a new innovation management system, you need to go between the Scylla of the Soviet administrative-command system and the Charybdis of the American venture economics model.

    NTI does not involve pumping trillions of rubles into lobbied projects. We do not plan to build monumental structures or conduct propaganda from central television. We propose identifying future markets and forming coalitions aimed at capturing these markets. The rest will follow.

  • And why do you think you will succeed?

    Still all the basic questions innovative development smart officials decided, it was the sphere of bureaucratic regulation. NTI must create conditions where private money is more important than public money - and we believe that projects with private investment will be more effective. Simply handing out government money is the most ineffective strategy. “Smart” development management strategies and practices should appear joint investments, mutual funds, crowdfunding and crowdinvesting. Some elements of such an ecosystem have already been created. For example, the fund of funds model of the Russian Venture Company seems reasonable. We will disseminate the best practices of RVC and other development institutions in NTI.

    However, the most main question– not in money or beautiful documentation. Any document that we write will be another “strategy” in a row of many already adopted and not working road maps. A group of like-minded people is more important than a stack of papers. Therefore, we need a network of bright leaders with shared vision and values ​​from the fields of business, science and government - and it is these leaders who will be able to implement any plan in any political and institutional climate. These leaders can be called "tech patriots" - because each of them believes that the country is capable of generating a technological breakthrough, and their trust in each other on high value grounds is more important than the fight for resources. These are people who are ready to extend their personal interests 20 years into the future so that their children and grandchildren would go to the same schools as them - and they would not be ashamed of their grandchildren, or the schools, or the country.

  • The country has a poor investment climate and basic institutions do not work modern society, the level of corruption is off the charts. What kind of technological development can we talk about? How are you going to retain high-quality specialists and entrepreneurs - after all, it is easier for many to leave and start a project where the institutions work much better?

    The institutional and investment climate, unlike usual, is changed by the combined efforts of people, and not by the grace of God. Russia has never had a completely business-friendly business climate. Everyone for whom comfort, sun, wine, mountains and the ocean of California are most important, it seems to us, has already left Russia. The rest understand that in Sevastopol the sun, wine, mountains and sea are no worse.

    A bad climate provides no excuse for inactivity. You need to move forward with possible steps, and not wait for someone to change this climate for you. At the same time, each NTI roadmap must contain proposals to change the situation, for which we will fight together. Our experience in implementing the National Entrepreneurial Initiative, the Global Education program, WorldSkills shows that sometimes you get even more than you expect. We must develop positive tools for retaining high professionals in the country.

  • You chose 2035 for your forecast - and in our country no one plans that far. A lot will change over the next 20 years; are you even going to be responsible for your forecasts?

    2035 is the planning horizon, that is, the extreme point to which we extend forecasts and projects. At the same time, NTI roadmaps at the level of practical actions will be built for 2015-2018. with control of implementation every six months. This means that we must look 20 years ahead and act starting today.

    The results of the work in the near future will be new companies, new educational programs, new scientific laboratories - and if everything goes as it should, in a few years we will see a significant increase in high-tech Russian exports.

  • Why is the Agency for Strategic Initiatives involved in the National Technology Initiative? Are you going to replace RVK and FANO?

    The Agency for Strategic Initiatives is a structure whose main task is to launch strategic initiatives commissioned by the country's leadership. We have proven our success in entrepreneurship support programs and in projects related to the development of children's and vocational education. The national theme of technological development lacked precisely these links - work with entrepreneurs who give orders for new technological solutions, and work with education (including children's clubs and circle movement), which creates competitive skills for developing technologies and markets.

    We are not going to run science or the venture sector. The Agency for Strategic Initiatives is a platform where it is convenient for different groups and segments of society to come to agreement; our role is that of a moderator, not a boss. ASI does not plan to lay claim to budgets in the NTI management. The whole practice of our previous work is to initiate large processes of change, but at the same time remain a small control structure.

    And who exactly will have to manage NTI will be shown by foresight and subsequent work on creating road maps. As moderators of this process, we have no special secret knowledge.

  • You have chosen nine markets for NTI - EnergoNet, NeuroNet, AeroNet, MariNet and others. Why are you starting with markets? Why "No" - why are they called so strangely? Why these nine?

    The global technological revolution is replacing established industries and creating new markets. Most Western technology strategies use 2035 as a key point: they devote the next ten years to refining technological solutions and introducing new products to the market, and the next ten years will be spent dividing the world market and replacing existing technologies. For example, there is not a single major car company that will invest in the internal combustion engine or the human behind the wheel after 2025 - they are all preparing for self-driving electric vehicles. For now, we continue to invest in the construction of an industry that has 10 years left to live, and which is under the control of foreign manufacturers who are not going to transfer it to us. intellectual property on key competencies of the future market.

    Why does the name of all markets of the future contain the word ‘net’, that is, “network”? All emerging new markets either use the physical infrastructure of the Internet, or its protocols, or are built in its image. “Smart networks” will work according to this principle, connecting many producers and consumers of electricity - that is, EnergoNet. This is how the transport systems of the future will be organized - AeroNet, AutoNet and MariNet. Even conservative markets, such as agricultural equipment, are turning into networks of cyber-physical devices that the manufacturer owns, and farmers lease them and renew software licenses. That is, all markets of the future are networks at the same time.

    Why these? We do not believe that there can be an exhaustive model for describing the future, and our recipe is a combination system analysis and leadership energy. In our pilot work on NTI roadmaps, we focused on obvious markets where we see similar movements in other countries, and where there are strong leaders and communities in Russia. The list of markets is not exhaustive, and we expect to launch work on new markets every year. If we see that we have missed something significant market, we will start working on it in 2016.

    Those markets that are allocated for work now are organized according to the following logic:

    • three of them relate to the security of the country and its systemic provision of resources: this is the market for food (FoodNet), energy (EnergyNet) and security (SafeNet)
    • three relate to transformations in the transport system: this is the market for unmanned vehicles (AutoNet), air transport (AeroNet) and sea / river transport (MariNet)
    • and finally, three relate to the most important areas of human life, where “crazy” technological changes are taking place: this is the market for “digital” health (HealthNet), new finance (FinNet) and neurocommunications (NeuroNet).
  • Why is the emphasis placed on creating markets rather than advancing science or technology?

    Technology itself means nothing if there is no demand for it. For this, as a rule, a market is needed - and if the technology is not in demand by the market, then its development becomes difficult.

    Of course, the market approach is not the only possible one. No less important is the view through the tasks of state security - this is how many developed modern markets, from energy and basic food markets to cybersecurity and space launch markets. But the maximum effect is achieved where both tasks are solved - satisfaction market demand and state security. An example is the GLONASS project - at the same time it is both state security in the field of geopositioning and a very large market for those companies that have started working with it. Perhaps the 2016 foresight fleet will be organized through this prism.

  • If I think you've missed an important market, may I make a suggestion? What do I need to be heard and my proposal taken into account in further work?

    If you think there is an important new market which needs to be taken into account in further work on NTI, then first of all answer the following questions:

    • Is there an opportunity to create fundamentally new technological standards in this area? (i.e. whether the market is new)
    • Is there a community of entrepreneurs and scientists in Russia who share the idea of ​​the possible emergence of such a market? (i.e., does leadership energy exist)
    • Are there similar international projects or consortia in the same direction? (that is, is it possible to find international partners with whom the launch of this market can be realized)

    If the answer to these questions is affirmative, then we ask you to submit an application to ASI for inclusion of a new market, and we promise to organize its comprehensive public discussion and inclusion in the event of a positive decision.

  • In our country, more than 80% of the economy is under direct or indirect government control - why do you even put such an emphasis on entrepreneurs and markets?

    We believe that the experiment with building state capitalism in Russia has already shown the ineffectiveness of this model, and the future lies in effective models of public-private partnerships. In general, we cannot do without a significant role of the state, even in new areas of the economy. This is shown, for example, by the struggle between Yandex and Google unfolding before our eyes. But relying only on state giants is futile; we need developed supply chains and ecosystems of medium and small technology companies.

  • Why should we discuss new markets if we have a crisis on the horizon and we will need to feed the country?

    One of the key NTI markets is FoodNet, that is, the food market, which solves the problem of more efficient production, delivery and processing of food products, taking into account the needs of large cities. This market is already forming before our eyes, and although it will reach maturity in 15-20 years, many solutions can be applied now: for example, robotization of dairy farms greatly increases milk yield, product quality control and delivery efficiency to the end consumer - and such technology pays off in a very short period of time. Unfortunately, the consumer is not yet aware of most modern technological solutions and is not motivated to use them - and this is a consequence of the current model of government incentives in this area. Therefore, the state must demonstrate new priorities in order to launch technological renewal. Practice has shown that our country is capable of quickly creating entire branches of agriculture - in less than 10 years, we have turned from importers of chicken into exporters. In this logic, by 2035 we can become leaders in many areas of high-tech agricultural production.

  • Where is the place in NTI for the idea that in order to be globally competitive, a country must solve global problems? Let's say, environmental problems or providing the planet's population with water and food?

    Solving global problems is a possible strategy for achieving global leadership, through which it will be critical to look at all our technology initiatives. We will definitely do this as part of the project, including at the Foresight Fleet.

  • Why should we develop new technology businesses if there is no market for them yet? If they create something valuable, either Russian Technologies or Google will buy them.

    This is one of the key risks of NTI. However, the sale of companies in itself to Russian state-owned companies with global potential (such as Russian Technologies) or even to international technology companies (such as Google) is not necessarily bad - in innovative markets it is one of the market strategies that allows business creators to capitalize on their efforts.

    It is important that there remains a part of new businesses that decide to develop independently and challenge existing giants in the fight for new markets - these are the companies that will be able to become new global champions. The task of NTI is to ensure that there are as many of these companies as possible, and that they retain the potential for global growth. We propose to decide together how exactly to achieve this in the coming months; we are open to ideas and suggestions. One solution is the practice of corporate spinoffs - large corporations must learn to create their own venture funds and allocate promising areas into separate business units. Another is the creation of a new generation of “patent trolls” in unoccupied niches. The third is the practice of transferring IP to the country and quickly growing national champions under state orders, with a pre-established model of export to Asian markets. There are options.

  • We will make 20 development roadmaps - what next? Why do you think they will be implemented?

    To implement NTI, we want to use the successful mechanism of the National Entrepreneurial Initiative (NPI), which allowed Russia to significantly improve its position in world business climate rankings (for example, in the Doing Business ranking, Russia showed record dynamics, rising from 124th to 60th place for 2 years). The NPI is based on the following model: roadmaps to improve the business climate are formed with the coordination of the ASI; Each road map is maintained by a group of entrepreneurs and officials who ensure that the map is not bureaucratically watered down. At the same time, NPI cards are controlled from the highest level of government. A similar mechanism is embedded in NTI.

  • What will happen if the President does not accept the NTI road maps?
  • What financial resources will be used to pay for the implementation of NTI roadmaps? If my project needs funding, how can I get it within the NTI?

    NTI, first of all, is people, not a roof or a pocket. If you need government money for the success of the project, and that’s all, you probably shouldn’t participate in NTI.

    But at the same time, it is clear that for NTI to succeed, new scientific research must be launched and support must be provided for high-risk technological projects. Therefore, representatives of the Russian Science Foundation, Russian Academy of Sciences, RVC, Skolkovo, the Assistance Fund, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Education and Science, and the Ministry of Economic Development are involved in the development of NTI; they will implement the priorities of the NTI in their policies to support new projects.

    The set of institutional decisions necessary to launch the market should be developed by the working group itself. But we are not going to turn this into a lobbying process and predetermine certain decisions. The ultimate criterion is the ability to create a market with maximum growth potential, and not taking into account the interests of individual players.

  • If the state starts NTI, what will happen to existing initiatives and projects? Should we cancel existing government programs to support technological development and close any of the existing development institutions?
  • Why don’t foreign specialists participate in the development of NTI roadmaps?

    When developing a national technology policy, it is important that it starts at the national level. At the next step, we will build systems of cooperation and consortia with international partners, but at the start this issue is primarily national.

    When creating NTI roadmaps, we use the results of all major international, national and corporate foresights in relevant areas. Foresight fleet participants in individual areas are deeply integrated into the international process of developing future market standards.

    In particular, based on the Russian Education Foresight 2035 initiative, the Global Education Futures project was launched in 2014, within which education leaders from around the world create a vision and global standards for the development of new education markets that support learning throughout life.

  • Where in NTI is robotics, Internet of things, sustainable development, climate change and other topics relevant to the modern international agenda?

    We believe that whole line errors in scientific and technological development were associated with the uncritical borrowing of Western concepts-memes, behind which there were marketing interests in promoting specific companies. It's important for us to practice semantic hygiene and use terms that point to specific markets and technologies to focus on specific areas with growth potential.

    An example of an uncritical attitude is the concept of a “smart city with centralized control.” Practice shows that behind this there is an attempt to impose ultra-expensive technological solutions, while the most effective solutions are those that support decentralized management based on local communities.

  • The country is in a difficult geopolitical situation. How can you build a technological future while being isolated and under sanctions from the international community, including in the field of technological cooperation?

    When the rocket and space project started in 1932, the country was in a significantly less advantageous position - and it managed. Even in the worst scenario, we are doomed to update and develop our economy - without this we simply have no future.

    However, we hope that the process of developing technology policy will take place in cooperation with the largest countries of the world, with which we have no isolation, and work has already begun on a number of standards - these are China, India and other BRICS countries, as well as a number of rapidly developing new economies. But we hope that science will remain global and that new “iron curtains” will not be created in it. A number of projects continue in Russia, focused on global cooperation rather than isolation - this is the “5 in the top 100” program for leading Russian universities, this is the “Global Education” program for training specialists in leading educational institutions of the world with a return to their homeland, projects Big Science, and others.

  • Today's technology standards are global by definition - how are you going to get in with your standards and why will you be listened to?

    According to our definition, new markets differ from existing ones precisely in that they lack established international technological standards. At the same time, you need to understand that in a number of technology markets - including the Internet - the position of the United States is too dominant, and this does not suit many other economies. The general position of the BRICS countries is that standards for the next generation of markets should not be US- and Euro-centric, and that truly global standards should emerge.

    We see the relevance of the task of building truly global standards for all BRICS countries. Therefore, we immediately enter into dialogue with them on this issue so that it is possible to mutually take into account our national interests - at least in the format of a “second standard”, which can be built on the principles of open architecture. We do not limit the participation of the United States and EU countries in this dialogue, but it must take place at general rules. And over time, it is very likely that the condition for admission to the markets of the BRICS countries will be the ability to meet the formulated standards - just as it is now happening with admission to the markets of the European Union and North America.

  • What is the relationship between NTI foresight and the scientific and technological forecast that the Higher School of Economics makes at the request of the Ministry of Education and Science?

    NTI uses the results of scientific and technological forecasts. His co-authors work in all NTI groups.

  • The project also involves entrepreneurs who failed to create high-tech industries and brought large losses to investors. Why do you invite not only successful but also bankrupt businessmen to the project?

    The most valuable property of a businessman is his practical experience, which can only be gained in battle. If we don’t let all those who have lost once go into battle, then we won’t have any fighters left. In this case, you need to look at the achievements of each specific leader, including scientific and social ones, and his ability to recover from defeats.

  • To what extent does NTI rely on the scientific and technological resources that exist in our country?

    NTI builds its work from the future and from the needs of markets. Relying only on groundwork, which has served as the basis for scientific and technological policy in recent decades, has already shown its ineffectiveness. It is impossible to endlessly rely on the Soviet experience; the time has come to create new foundations where their potential can be maximally used.

Below is the full text of the publication (.pdf, 516 KB).

Alexey Borovkov, Vice-Rector for Advanced Projects of SPbPU,
leader - co-leader of the Technet working group (advanced production technologies) National Technology Initiative

Today the world is on the threshold of the development of a new technological generation economy - the digital economy (Digital Economy), based on data, or more precisely, from our point of view, an economy whose development is determined by “smart data”. The central place in the economy is occupied by the sphere material production- high-tech industry, which must meet the requirements of global competitiveness, efficiency and high labor productivity. To meet these requirements, the world is now rapidly developing total digitalization, automation and intellectualization of industry, a transition to cyber-physical systems is taking place, and the material and digital virtual worlds are being united. These global changes are accompanied by the development of fundamentally new business processes at all levels. In order to develop Russia in accordance with global technological trends and for the fullest implementation of emerging opportunities to increase the competitiveness of Russian industry and the final products created, a road map was developed Technet (advanced manufacturing technologies) of the National Technology Initiative (NTI).

Yuri Ryabov, chief specialist of the technological and industrial foresight department of the Engineering Center “Computer Engineering Center” (CompMechLab®) SPbPU

The National Technology Initiative is a program of measures to form fundamentally new markets and create conditions for the country’s global technological leadership by 2035, which the President of the Russian Federation proposed to implement in his Address to the Federal Assembly on December 4, 2014 V.V. Putin. In May 2015, at the annual event of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives to promote new projects “ForesightFleet - 2015”, working groups were formed to create and develop 9 markets of the future (“Aeronet”, “Avtonet”, “Marinet”, “Energynet”, “Neuronet”, “Safenet”, “Healthnet”, “Foodnet”, “Finnet”) and the only technological group of NTI - “Technet” (advanced production technologies), created on an initiative basis by the vice-rector for promising projects Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) A.I. Borovkov, director of innovative development PJSC NPO Saturn D.S. Ivanov and Director of the Department of Science and Education of the Foundation "Skolkovo" A.D. Fertman.

On February 14, 2017, the Technet roadmap (advanced production technologies) of the National Technology Initiative was approved at a meeting of the Presidium of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for economic modernization and innovative development of Russia, chaired by YES. Medvedev.

Earlier, on February 5, 2016, the Vice-Rector for Advanced Projects of SPbPU was approved as the leader and co-leader of the Technet working group of NTI. A.I. Borovkov, and co-director from the specialized federal body In December 2016, the executive branch approved the Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation V.S. Osmakov.

The Technet direction is a cross-market and cross-industry direction that provides technological support for the development of NTI markets (primarily Aeronet, Autonet, Marinet, Energynet, etc.) and high-tech industries.

The Technet direction is dedicated to the development and application of one of the most important classes of “end-to-end technologies” - new production technologies, more precisely, advanced production technologies (Advanced Manufacturing Technologies), attention was first focused on at the meeting of the Presidium of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for economic modernization and innovative development of Russia on September 16, 2014.

These technologies, in accordance with the NTI concept, include:

  • digital design and modeling, including supercomputer engineering, optimization technologies, bionic design, smart models, digital twins ( Smart Digital Twin);
  • new materials (primarily composite materials, metamaterials, metal powders for additive manufacturing);
  • additive and hybrid technologies;
  • flexible production cells, robotic complexes;
  • industrial sensors, industrial Internet;
  • big data ( Big Data), Firstly Smart Big Data;
  • production and enterprise management information systems;
  • virtual and augmented reality technologies;
  • expert systems and artificial intelligence.

However, none of the advanced production technologies, taken separately, is capable of providing a long-term competitive advantage in the market. Such an advantage can only be provided by systems of integrated technological solutions that ensure the design and production of globally competitive products of a new generation in the shortest possible time. In the terminology of the roadmap, they are called Digital, Smart, Virtual Factories of the Future, which must be formed from the best world-class technologies.

A diagram reflecting the role, types and levels of “Factory of the Future” in the matrix of the National Technology Initiative

Digital Factories are systems of integrated technological solutions that ensure, in the shortest possible time, the design and production of globally competitive products of a new generation from the research and planning stage, when they are laid basic principles products, and ending with the creation of a digital mockup ( Digital MockUp, DMU), "digital twin" ( Smart Digital Twin), prototype or small series (“paperless production”, “everything in digital”). A digital factory implies the presence of “smart” models of products or products (machines, structures, units, instruments, installations, etc.) based on a new paradigm of digital design and modeling

(Smart Big Data)-Based-Driven (Advanced Design & Advanced Manufacturing).

Smart factories- systems of integrated technological solutions that ensure, in the shortest possible time, the production of globally competitive products of a new generation from the blank to the finished product, distinctive features which is a high level of automation and robotization, eliminating the human factor and associated errors leading to loss of quality (“unmanned production”). As an input product of “Smart” factories, as a rule, the results of the work of Digital factories are used. A “smart” factory usually implies the presence of production equipment - numerically controlled machines, industrial robots, etc., as well as automated process control systems ( Industrial Control System, ICS) and operational management systems for production processes at the workshop level ( Manufacturing Execution System, MES).

Virtual factories are systems of integrated technological solutions that ensure, in the shortest possible time, the design and production of globally competitive products of a new generation by combining Digital and (or) “Smart” factories into a distributed network. A virtual factory implies the presence information systems enterprise management ( Enterprise Application Systems, E.A.S.), allowing you to develop and use as a single object a virtual model of all organizational, technological, logistics and other processes at the level of global supply chains (supply => production => distribution and logistics => sales => after-sales service) and (or) at the level distributed production assets.

Components (layers) of the “Factory of the Future”.

The goals of the NTI Technet roadmap are:

  • formation of a set of key competencies that ensure the integration of advanced production technologies and business models for their dissemination as “Factory of the Future” of the first and subsequent generations;
  • creation of globally competitive customized/personalized products of a new generation for the NTI markets and high-tech industries.

The main objectives of the Technet roadmap are as follows:

1. Creation of infrastructure for the development of a set of key competencies for “Factory of the Future”;

2. Creation of globally competitive companies in the NTI markets and in high-tech industries;

3. Long-term planning for the development of advanced production technologies and related business models;

4. Formation of an ecosystem for the creation, attraction, development and transfer of best-in-class technologies;

5. Creation of legislative and institutional conditions for the development of advanced production technologies.

To form “Factory of the Future”, selecting and integrating various best technologies in the world with the addition of our own cross-industry intellectual know-how, it is necessary to have a place where they could be tested in practice, in an environment that meets real conditions.

For these purposes, the Technet roadmap in 2017-2019 provides for the launch of three test sites (TestBeds):

  • a testing ground for the generation of Digital, “Smart”, Virtual “Factory of the Future” on the basis of the Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (IPPT) SPbPU;
  • test site "Factory of the Future" based on NPO Saturn;
  • experimental digital certification centers based on the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov.

The priority activities for the implementation of the road map in 2017-2019 will be:

  • launch of five “Factory of the Future” in high-tech industries;
  • Creation National Center testing, verification and validation software in the field of computer and supercomputer engineering, the National Network Center for Reverse Engineering and Prototyping and the PPT Transfer Centers, research, training and export support "Technet" NTI (in China and Europe);
  • launching an acceleration system with the participation of IPPT SPbPU, NPO Saturn, Skolkovo Foundation, RVC, other development institutes and universities for the creation and promotion of companies whose business is based on advanced production technologies, or companies creating new technological solutions or competencies in the field PPT;
  • preparation of a list of recommendations to clarify the activities of state programs that ensure the development of advanced production technologies;
  • launch of a network of learning factories in federal districts;
  • popularization of advanced production technologies;
  • creation of the All-Russian association “Technet” NTI, etc.

Currently, the working group "Technet" (advanced manufacturing technologies) of the National Technology Initiative includes representatives of IPPT SPbPU, including the Engineering Center "Computer Engineering Center" (CompMechLab ®) SPbPU and the CompMechLab ® group of companies, NPO Saturn, Skolkovo Foundation ", the Center for Strategic Research Foundation, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, the Center for Project Management in Industry, the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, the companies Volgabas, Datadvance, enterprises of the State Corporation Rosatom, the Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard, the United Rocket and Space Corporation , United Aircraft Corporation, United Shipbuilding Corporation, Rostec State Corporation, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a number of other organizations and companies.

The curator of the working group on the part of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives to promote new projects is D.V. Unzhakov, from the NTI project office - M.V. Petrov.

2 years of experience and results of implementing the roadmap of the National Technology Initiative in the Aeronet direction were discussed by the conference participants.

A direct survey conducted on the eve of the conference confirmed that a negative opinion prevails in market participants’ assessment of the results of Aeronet NTI DC.

The assessment, in general, is expected, because over the two years of implementation of the roadmap, the necessary breakthrough technologies that would allow us to take leadership positions in the global market, or at least solve internal industry-wide problems, have not appeared.

At the same time, the undoubted result of NTI is an instrument of influence on the regulatory framework that has frozen without movement, the imperfection of which largely determines the slowdown of the market. September 29, 2017 by the Government Russian Federation Resolution No. 1184 was adopted “On the procedure for the development and implementation of action plans (“road maps”) to improve legislation and eliminate administrative barriers in order to ensure the implementation of the National Technology Initiative", and on April 3, 2018, the Government of the Russian Federation adopted No. 576-r "On approval of the action plan ("road map") to improve legislation and eliminate administrative barriers in order to ensure the implementation of the action plan ("road map") ") National technological initiative in the direction of "Aeronet"

Participants in the panel discussion were invited to express their point of view and constructive proposals on possible updates to both the roadmap itself and the mechanisms for implementing NTI.


Unexpected for many were the opinions of the discussion participants who were at the origins of the development of the roadmap, who went through the NTI system, and who have enormous experience in working in the Russian and international markets.

What does experience show?

Alexey Semenov, founder and CEO group of companies "GEOSKAN":

“We were the first company to go through all stages of project selection, we were the first to receive the most money and lost the most money in NTI due to an unsuccessful funding format... NTI is an initiative given to us from above, and the community was lucky that the Aeronet track was included in 9 developing areas The market for flying drones has not yet developed at the time of discussion. promising directions, and therefore received state support at the highest level, which is certainly important."


“I want to state that NTI is a benefit for all of us,” noted Alexey Semenov. “Another question is whether those rosy expectations that we had at the stage of writing the roadmap were realized. What will happen next? In my opinion, the state has already done everything that could have now been done by NTI must take a new path and build on the self-development of the professional community. It’s our turn to meet the state halfway.”

In his speech, Alexey Evgenievich emphasized that at the foresight stage in 2015, active market participants were tasked with justifying that unmanned aircraft in 2035 could become a 100-billion-dollar market, and choosing the main directions of development. The problem has been solved: the rationale has been written, the main directions have been chosen.

In addition, the task was set to create a mechanism for financing projects. It was also resolved, Government resolutions were written, regulations for the selection and financing of projects were created, and an NTI project office was created.

Today's experience shows that financing individual projects does not bring anything significant to the development of the market. The Innovation Promotion Fund, due to the small volumes of individual grants, can only finance trial work.

Through existing system NTI can only finance 1-2 projects per year, which are like grain to an elephant, and the community faces tasks of a completely different scale! Moreover, NTI in its current format solves some local problems, while global and essentially main issues remain aside.

In his address to the Federal Assembly, the President of the Russian Federation set the task of doubling the volume of non-resource, non-energy exports to $250 billion within six years. Even if unmanned aviation takes only 0.2% here, that’s $500 million. Now the entire volume of the industry is several times smaller. The question is how to solve this problem?

"I think- the head of Geoscan emphasized, - that the state in the current NTI format has already done almost everything it could - the importance of the industry has been outlined, the tasks for the standards have been set, the tools have been given as a first approximation. Now we need to launch the self-development mechanism of the unmanned community. And when the community outlines and takes serious steps, it will be necessary to go to the state again (to NTI) and propose new mechanisms."

Companies or projects

Alexander Ryzhov– Executive Director of the company Raduga (SKYEER Platform):

“In 2015, at the foresight stage, we were on the same level with the United States in terms of legislation, i.e. no one had anything, and approximately at the same level in terms of market indicators. In 2 years, the American market has gone far ahead and today is one of the the most progressive. They created the conditions. And we are still trying to link everything from Earth to Mars, but have not solved basic problems and this greatly limits us, while our opponents are doing everything gradually, as they say, in Russia there are two problems - infrastructure. and management. So, we probably need to work with management."


Alexander Mikhailovich also noted that his company’s experience is associated with the opacity of project assessment by Aeronet experts and experts from the financing party, and the project support format deliberately contains conditions that limit market maneuvers. The project framework contains strict conditions and criteria, but during the implementation process it may happen that instead of, for example, a pulling screw, it will be necessary to install a pushing screw. It is, of course, possible to make changes to the project, but the level of bureaucracy is clearly excessive.

When asked about support for projects or companies Alexander Ryzhov noted:

“I am against state financial support for companies in the way it is done now. Either you make a good quality product for the market, or you don’t make it. Supporting a globally competitive market product with proven effectiveness - that’s what makes sense.”

The same idea is shared by Alexey Semenov:

“Financial support, on the contrary, can ruin a company. It is necessary to support only system-wide tasks - we need infrastructure, regulations. It is necessary to develop the professional community itself and industry cooperation.”


The General Director of Copter Express Technologies LLC noted in his speech that he considers one of the problems to be a significant gap between the time the project was launched and the actual receipt state support.

“We have done everything and completed all the tracks, the only reason why we have not yet closed the project is that the money from that very state support has not been returned to us. All projects face this and it is a huge problem.”


Regarding project support, he said:

“I believe that it is necessary to create the same conditions for everyone. Not to support some large, but isolated projects and give everything to them, but to create conditions for the development of business, especially small businesses, that are the same for everyone within the market in which we we are working."

Reasons and priorities

A different view on the results of 2 years of work on implementing the NTI roadmap was presented by the Leader of the Aeronet NTI working group Sergey Zhukov. He noted in particular that the assessment of this work by market participants has a negative balance, just like their assessment of the activities of Rusnano or Skolkovo.

“Government officials represented by the heads of development institutes and the analytical center highly appreciated the results of the work of the Aeronet NTI working group, placing it in second place after the Neuronet group.”


Sergei Aleksandrovich agreed with the mentioned problems of financing projects, emphasizing that history knows examples of building the nuclear industry in a year and a half and the same in astronautics. Then the state seriously financed not only the facilities, but also the work of the specialists who built the industry. Today, the entire process of developing and implementing a roadmap is free of charge for its participants, which in a certain way affects the result.

Sergey Aleksandrovich named the future priorities of the updated roadmap:

“The first priority is the standard, it is already clear what needs to be done, the foresight has been carried out. The second is the development of unmanned aerial vehicles, primarily heavy transport, this requires normal foresights, the involvement of public sector institutes of aviation science, state support and the development of a number of technologies are needed. The third priority is community development, an important thing that the Association does. The fourth priority is education. I would highlight these four.", noted the Leader of the working group.

And yet, at the end of the discussion, the question remained - should the community look for mechanisms to increase the effectiveness of NTI, or calm down in the euphoria of the high assessment of high statesmen?

"I'm for a different approach- Alexander Ryzhov expressed his opinion, - How does business differ from the State approach? Business sets a goal and achieves results. Summing this up already legislative framework and so on. Business solves specific problems; for a normal business, the economic effect is always important. As soon as we wrap this up in a state outline, it’s clear that no one will make any drones here.”

November 28-30, 2018 One of the largest events in the North-West - the XI St. Petersburg International Innovation Forum (SPIIF) - will take place at the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center (St. Petersburg). Traditionally, the XXII International Forum “Russian Industrialist” will be held on the same site as the innovation forum.

The organizer of PIIF-2018 is the Committee on Industrial Policy and Innovation of St. Petersburg.

Now the work is close to completion: the draft Regional Standard has been formed, and its results will be presented at SPIIF-2018.

Moderator - leading expert of the SPbPU NTI Center Andrey Tarshin.

  • November 28(14:30 - 15:30 , lecture hall of the St. Petersburg International Institute of Physics) - panel discussion “Digital factories of the future: from creating digital twins to introducing IIoT and augmented reality technologies into the production process.” How to switch to systems engineering and digital certification of production, what are the digital factories of the future and are there any worthy examples in Russia: the answers to these and many other questions will be given by the discussion experts.

  • November 30th (12:00 - 14:00 , hall B1) - The Technet Association together with St. Petersburg Polytechnic University is holding a panel session “NTI Competence Centers as a Driver for the Implementation of the Technet Roadmap”.

NTI's Technet roadmap was approved at a meeting of the Presidium of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for economic modernization and innovative development of Russia. is the development of Russia in accordance with global technological trends and the most complete implementation of emerging opportunities to increase the competitiveness of Russian industry and the final products created.

"Technet" (Advanced manufacturing technologies) is a cross-market and cross-industry direction that provides technological support for the development of NTI markets and high-tech industries through the formation of Digital, Smart, Virtual (Digital, Smart, Virtual Factories of the Future).

The Technet direction is dedicated to the development and application of one of the most important classes of “end-to-end technologies” - advanced manufacturing technologies. Based on the results of the competitive selection within the framework of the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated October 16, 2017 No. 1251 “On approval of the Rules for the provision of subsidies from the federal budget for the provision of state support for centers of the National Technology Initiative based on educational organizations higher education and scientific organizations..." were created14 competence centers in areas of cross-cutting NTI technology.

Five of them correspond to the priority topics of the NTI Technet roadmap:

    Center for the National Technological Initiative “New Manufacturing Technologies” on the basis of the Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies of St. Petersburg Polytechnic University;

    Center for Technologies for Storage and Analysis of Big Data, Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov;

    NTI Center MIET “Sensorics”;

    Competence Center in the field of “Wireless Communication Technologies and the Internet of Things” based at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech);

    Technology Center for Robotics and Mechatronics Components based at INNOPOLIS University.

Participants - representatives of five centers prioritized for the Technet direction - will discuss the role of NTI competency centers in the implementation of the Technet Roadmap and determine a strategy for interaction between NTI Centers.

As a result of the discussion, basic principles and mechanisms of interaction between NTI competence centers will be formed, aimed at the comprehensive implementation of the NTI Technet roadmap and increasing the global competitiveness of the Russian economy.

Event Experts: Head of Department promising projects NTI Center SPbPU Oleg Rozhdestvensky, Deputy Leader-Co-Head of RG "Technet" NTI Evgeniy Belosludtsev. Moderator - Director of the Technet Association Ilya Metreveli.

We invite everyone to participate in the forum!

Venue of SPIIF-2018: Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center, St. Petersburg, Petersburg Highway 64/1.

The second stage of the “NTI Development” competition has been announced, aimed at supporting R&D in order to implement the “road maps” of the National Technology Initiative.

As part of the competition, it is planned to select projects for the implementation of NTI “road maps”: “Aeronet”; "Avtonet"; "Marinet"; "Neuronet"; "Technet"; "Helsnet"; "Energynet".

The R&D period is 12-24 months.

The competition is held on the basis of a list of priority thematic areas formulated jointly with NTI working groups for each road map, taking into account technological barriers.

When selecting projects, the extent to which R&D is focused on the following areas of development will be taken into account:

  • directions provided for by Decree of the President of Russia dated December 1, 2016 No. 642 “On the Strategy for Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation”, which will create technologies that are the basis for the innovative development of the domestic market for products and services, Russia’s stable position in the foreign market, and will ensure the transition to digital, intelligent production technologies, robotic systems, new materials and design methods, the transition to environmentally friendly and resource-saving energy, countering man-made, biogenic, sociocultural threats, terrorism and ideological extremism, as well as cyber threats and other sources of danger to society, the economy and the state, and other;
  • end-to-end industrial technologies necessary to achieve the results of all NTI roadmaps, including the development of the domestic electronic component base, the creation of composite materials, etc.; assistance in the development of regulations and standards that contribute to the implementation of the goals of NTI roadmaps.

Based on the results of the competition, the Innovation Promotion Fund provides grants of up to ₽20 million for R&D (salaries, raw materials, materials, components, services of co-executors). In this case, extra-budgetary co-financing (from own or borrowed funds) must be at least 30% of the grant amount. For whom small enterprises can take part in the competition in accordance with No. 209-FZ of July 24, 2007 and unified register SMEs. The company must not have any pending agreements with the fund.

The competition is aimed at enterprises that successfully produce their own high-tech products, have a positive financial and economic history and protected intellectual property on the subject of the project. What needs to be done To participate, you need to submit an application through the fund's automated system.

In addition to the application, the participant must provide an extract from the Unified State Register legal entities, information on the average number of employees for 2014, 2015, 2016, balance sheet and financial performance report of the enterprise for 2015 and 2016, business plan for an innovative project, technical task for R&D, schedule, cost estimate and documents confirming the availability of extra-budgetary co-financing. Document forms are attached.

The application must be submitted by 23:30 (Moscow time) on May 15, 2017. Contacts Dvornichenko Pavel Alekseevich, e-mail: