09.05.09

Familiarization with the structuring of US innovative development institutions and a search for new potential partners is the double goal of a visit to the U.S. by a delegation of Russia's State Corporation for Nanotechnologies /ROSNANO/ led by Anatoly Chubais.

In the first leg of the U.S. tour, the delegation visited Houston where it took part in the Nanotech 2009 conference, the twelfth in a chain of conference and the largest international forum on nanotechnologies in the world today.

More than 4,000 companies and research centers took part in the conference this year.

"A report Anatoly Chubais made at the conference invited the participants' interest because we can see the willingness on the part of investors and researchers to invest in Russia in spite of the economic crisis," ROSNANO's deputy director general Andrei Trapeznikov told Itar-Tass by telephone from Houston.

"We hope the business talks the delegation held here will open the doors for emergence of a range of science-intensive projects," he said. "They will be special for the fact that that output of nanotech products under them must be made in Russia."

According to Trapeznikov, ROSNANO has already received a few proposals for the U.S. to-finance R&D works.

"The U.S. occupies the leading position in the world in what concerns development of nanotechnologies and that's why it was of interest for us to see how they organize the whole process here," he said.

"Also, the American market arouses our interest because we see a certain potential here in terms of drawing investment for Russia," Trapeznikov said.

From Houston, the ROSNANO delegation and Anatoly Chubais went to California's Silicon Valley.

Delegation members are expected to visit Stanford University that initiated the emergence of a specialized zone of high technologies in the U.S.

Russian official will get familiarized with the Stanford Center for Integrated Systems and a host of laboratories.

While in California, Chubais is expected to hold talks with executives of Intel and Hewlett-Packard, the world's leading producers of computer technologies, and with members of the American Business Association of Russian Expatriates /AMBAR/.

ROSNANO's display at the Houston conference showed the projects that have received financing are being implemented.

The corporation's board of trustees has endorsed twelve projects so far.

"Our objective is not to sell the projects but, rather, to attract investors and researchers to new projects that will help our country build its own nano-industry," Trapeznikov said.

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Source: Itar-Tass