OREANDA-NEWS. RUSNANO CEO Anatoly Chubais and the general director of the Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Program, Andrey Svinarenko, took part in opening ceremonies for the Zelenograd Nanotechnology Center. The budget for the project is 2 billion rubles of which RUSNANO invested 1.1 billion rubles. The Zelenograd Innovation and Technology Centre and the Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology, a national research university, are also partners and investors in the new center.

The Zelenograd Nanotechnology Center is a multifunctional complex for development and production of nanoelectronic goods and microsystem technology. It is, as well, a platform for developing engineering start-ups. Manufacturing facilities at the nanocenter span 1,100 square meters (11,840 square feet); nearly half the space has gone to contaminant-free rooms. The center's advanced infrastructure facilitates full-cycle work at the pre-commercial stage: design and production of nanoelectronics and microsystem technology (MEMS, NEMS, and system-on-chips), creation of lines for assembly and testing of the functional and electrical parameters of goods. Facilities for development and production of integrated chips and semiconductor instruments comply fully with requirements for producing modern electronic components.

As of November 2013, the Zelenograd Nanotechnology Center held a portfolio of 16 start-ups. More than 20 projects in electronics, biotechnology, and clean technology (energy conservation and alternative energy) were under review. In sum, during 2012?2013 the center has made investments of its own resources and attracted outside financing to early-stage technological projects in excess of 200 million rubles.

The Zelenograd nanocenter is a model of efficiency in resource planning. It has placed comprehensive infrastructure in a sophisticated production complex that can incubate nascent companies from research and design to production and testing. It combines expertise in fundamental and applied sciences with competency in technology transfer, financial resources, and networks through which to attract international partners and customers to portfolio projects.