Posted: November 9, 2009

(Nanowerk News) The Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO) and American Business Association of Russian-speaking Professionals (AmBAR) announce a Business Plan Competition for projects and companies working in the field of nanotechnology.

Origination of the project may come from any country or person all over the world, but its implementation or some part of implementation has to be completed in Russia. In 2009 the nominees for the contest are pre-selected by AmBAR among the participants of the Fifth Annual High Tech Investment Conference SVOD 2009. For more information, please go to http://www.svod.org or e-mail to [email protected]

The projects are evaluated by the following criteria:

nanotechnology application; scientific and technical feasibility of the project; quality and feasibility of the business-plan; steps already made towards project implementation.

The winner of the competition receives the RUSNANO award and the prize in the amount of 300,000 rubles (~$10,000).