Innovation infrastructure and activities

In order to increase the effectiveness of the scientific and technological activities of the Samara State Medical University (hereinafter referred to as the University) and to support the process of creating and transferring new technologies to the healthcare system, the Institute for Innovative Development (hereinafter referred to as the Institute) was organized. During its work, it has become an integrative platform both for the actual innovation process at the university, and for the development of current areas of medical science, the formation of unique competencies in interdisciplinary areas, the development of a new high-tech business, and the organization of an educational process of an innovative type.

The management of the innovation infrastructure and the organization of the innovation activities of the University are entrusted to the Director of the Institute, Associate Professor Chaplygin Sergei Sergeevich.

To organize and control the implementation of the University’s policy in the innovation sphere, 4 departments were created in the structure of the Institute:

        Department of Technology Transfer;

        Marketing department;

        Grant and contract activities support department;

        Department of project management, production and engineering.

Within the framework of maintaining the strategy of the full cycle of project support “from idea to serial sample”, subdivisions were organized under the functional subordination of the Institute.