OREANDA-NEWS. December 27, 2010. General Director of Rosatom State Corporation Sergey Kiriyenko and President of Foundation for Developing the Center for Development and Commercialization of New Technology Viktor Vekselberg signed a memorandum of understanding.

The document provides for full-scale cooperation between the parties in the course of implementation of Skolokovo innovative center establishment project including cooperation in such spheres as development of research, experimental and innovative infrastructure in the field of radiotechnologies, research and development, international promotion of Skolkovo innovative center and expert support in establishment of efficient institutions, regulation and environment.

Rosatom State Corporation, in particular, will determine the list of its laboratories and plants to be used as Centers for Collective Use by science teams taking part in implementation of the Skolkovo project for research in priority areas of Russian economy modernization, such as radiotechnologies for a wide range of applications, innovative energy technologies, technologies of creation new materials and their properties, computer technologies and medicine.

Besides, within the framework of the cooperation Rosatom State Corporation proposes establishment of a modern all-purpose research and technology center at Skolkovo based on an accelerator complex.

Rosatom State Corporation also intends to assist in creation of unique innovative infrastructure of Skolkovo center, for which purpose demo centers will be established in order to deliver different process solutions (operating demo models), including a data processing center on the basis of super computers and Grid Net, a superconducting inductive energy storage as an element of energy infrastructure of Skolkovo innovative center, a high-quality water treatment system as well as other engineering solutions that may be required when creating the infrastructure of Skolkovo innovative center.