We are happy to present a new series of Business Leaders Investments Forums “Innovation for Business” in 2010. The main objective of these forums is to overcome the barriers for investors seeking investment possibilities in the regions. The forum’s aim is to unite business and community leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators, business angel investors and local administrations seeking to improve the competitiveness and efficiency of local industries and integrate the regions into global business society.

Lately Russia pays much more attention to the innovation economy formation and its' modernization. Our country has chosen the innovation oriented development assuming development of the innovative knowledge-incentive industries and formation of the whole ecosystem of innovation-technological entrepreneurship.

In such case the role of state and private support from funds, venture investors, business angels are extremely high. Formation of a full-scale dialogue, structural interaction among these key participants of the innovation sphere is a first and most important step in the innovation economy formation. At present we have to develop private-state partnership as it was done by the American administration in the Silicon Valley fifty years ago that was not known to anyone.

Exactly due to this reason the meaning of creation and functioning of the grounds where authorities, business and science representatives could find areas of common interest and work out consolidated decisions.

Private investment consulting company MARCHMONT Capital Partners uses huge experience in the sphere of consulting and venture investments accumulated from 1992, with a purpose to develop the regional business and increase the investment attractiveness of the regions of Russia. MARCHMONT Capital Partners became known as an organizer of a series of business events starting from 2007. Practical experience proved us with the possibility to successfully organize and conduct more than 20 conferences and forums in 11 key regions of Russia.

The forums’ program is developed with a purpose to assist in the development of projects for their further commercialization and raising the investments from the private sources. Participating in the series of MARCHMONT Capital Partners Business Leaders Investment Forums “Innovation for Business” are Russia’s best speakers in the field of management, venture financing.

Possibilities of communication, networking, coffee breaks, lunches and reception are accessible for all the participants of the event.

We believe that exchange of opinions within the frames of a forum will help to fully achieve the innovation potential of the Russia’s regions, form the zones of outrun economic growth and enhance the science cities’ development. United efforts of the state, science, innovation entrepreneurs and investors could provide effective and complex answers to the appeals of present time and open the new possibilities for the Russian economy modernization.

We believe that the investment forums series will assist in creation and strengthening of the business contacts developing, investments raising and innovation projects support as well as technologies in the Russia’s regions.