IEF CIS-2025
On March 28, 2025, the CIS International Economic Forum «New Impulses for the Development of the Greater Eurasian Partnership. Scientific, technological and innovative cooperation» was held in Moscow at the Congress Center of the World Trade Center.
The Forum has become an important discussion platform for discussing key issues of interaction between business and government in the context of modern economic and technological changes. An important place in the work of the forum was given to the Interstate Program of innovative cooperation of the CIS member states for the period up to 2030.
In the first half of the day, 12 thematic sessions were held within the framework of the Forum, where more than 2,000 participants were announced and more than 200 speakers spoke.
At the session "Mechanisms, tools and best practices for using the results of scientific and technological activities" (moderators: Alexander Okunev– Director of the Department of the Skolkovo Foundation; Timur Mansurov, Head of the Department of Scientific and Technical Cooperation and Innovation of the Department of Economic Cooperation of the CIS Executive Committee, PhD in Law) 12 reports were presented, which were delivered by Mikhail Myskin, Director of the Department of Economic Cooperation of the CIS Executive Committee, Peter Chekmarev, Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Sergey Shuba– Head of the Department of International Scientific and Technical and Innovation Policy of the State Scientific and Technical Committee of the Republic of Belarus, Yulia Trefilova – Managing Director of PJSC AFK Sistema, Isfandier Yazdonzoda – Deputy Director of the Agency for Innovation and Digital Technologies under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, Anastasia Goltsman (Medscan Group of Companies), Andrey Shket (Skoltech), Natalia Tolmacheva (Foundation for Innovative Entrepreneurship), Elena Yatsenko (RUDN University).
Vladimir Lopatin, Scientific Supervisor (Director) of the Russian Research Institute of International Relations, Chairman of MTK 550 / TC 481, presented a report on the topic "Intellectual Property market - a challenge and condition for Eurasian integration" at this session. He also spoke at the session "Creation and Implementation of technologies: the path from scientific research to business implementation" (moderated by Artem Shadrin, Director General of the National Agency for the Development of Qualifications).
In his reports, he noted that the CIS is significantly ahead of the EAEU authorities in terms of strategizing and regulation in the formation and development of the intellectual property market/economy. Thus, in the presence of an Agreement on the formation and development of the intellectual property market of the CIS member states dated 06/01/2018 (Dushanbe), in the CIS Economic Development Strategy for the period up to 2030 and the Comprehensive Action Plan for the implementation of the CIS Interstate Innovation Cooperation Program for the period up to 2030, the formation and dynamic development of the CIS intellectual property market is highlighted, where the number of IP transactions (by value and geography) is stated as an indicator of the development of market relations.
At the same time, in the documents of the EAEU, starting with the Treaty on the Establishment of the EAEU, the commercialization of IP is not stated either as a goal, task or direction of integration. At the same time, none of the strategic tasks in the priority areas of Eurasian integration in the field of IP, defined in the EAEU Treaty (2014), has been solved in 10 years. The Declaration on the Further Development of Economic Processes within the EAEU until 2030 and for the period up to 2045 "The Eurasian Economic Path" (approved by the The tasks until 2030 include "ensuring the common market of the EAEU with key goods and resources and its effective functioning through cooperation to create favorable conditions for ensuring the protection and effective protection of intellectual property rights."
To resolve this situation, which has been going on for more than 10 years (the CIS has the authority, but no funds, whereas the EAEU has the means, but no authority), V.N. Lopatin suggested recommending that the participants of the Forum find a solution to this paradigm within the framework of the Memorandum of Cooperation between the Executive Committee of the CIS and the EEC of the EAEU, since these integration associations share the same the same countries, but the activities of the interstate superstructure are different in effectiveness.
While maintaining legal conflicts, the Chairman of the ITC 550 proposed to make more active use of the CIS interstate standards of the first system of standards "Intellectual Property", which contain procedures and rules for the formation and development of the IP economy, including through:
ü creation of added value (up to 10-15% of the product price), vertically (government order), horizontally (related parties);
ü additional capitalization of assets through the intangible assets (IA);
ü contribution of IP to the authorized capital;
ü consolidation/ merger of assets of organizations;
ü IP collateral for lending;
ü ensuring the IP of securities and their issuance on stock exchanges (shares and bonds of PAO, bonds of LLC, Russian depositary receipts; investment units; clearing certificates of participation);
ü IP risk insurance.
Results of work in 2024 The bodies of the Commonwealth, integration associations (SG, EAEU, SCO) and the CIS countries, as well as the sessions, were summarized at the plenary session (moderated by Denis Trefilov, Deputy Secretary General of the CIS). During the plenary session, speeches were made by: CIS Secretary General Sergey Lebedev, Chairman of the CIS Economic Council, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tajikistan Hokim Kholikzoda, Co-Chairman of the CIS Economic Council, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexey Overchuk (in a video message), Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission of the EAEU Bakytzhan Sagintayev, State Secretary of the Union State Dmitry Mezentsev, Deputy Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Sohail Khan, Deputy President – Chairman of the Management Board of VTB Bank Valery Lukyanenko, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Alexander Pankin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus Pavel Utyupin, Vice President of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Vladimir Padalko and Chairman of the Coordinating Council of the CIS Business Center for Economic Development Association Anatoly Kazakov.
Following the results of the Forum, recommendations will be developed for the bodies of integration associations and national authorities, science and business of the CIS countries.
RNIIIS Press Service