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The F irst Russian-Israel Venture Forum. PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF THE BUSINESS ANGELS’ ACTIVITY IN RUSSIA. I. Panteleev, Chief Executive of SBAR 14-15 March 2007 Tel - Aviv. National Commonwealth of Business Angels (SBAR) Non-Commercial Partnership.
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The First Russian-Israel Venture Forum PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF THE BUSINESS ANGELS’ ACTIVITY IN RUSSIA I. Panteleev, Chief Executive of SBAR14-15March 2007Tel - Aviv
National Commonwealth of Business Angels (SBAR)Non-Commercial Partnership Established by the Russian Association of Direct and Venture Investment (RAVI) initiative and supported by the Investment Policy Committee of the RF Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) Public registration date: 27 December 2006
SBAR combines • Business-angels-investors of the small innovation companies at the early stages of development (the seed ones) • Other natural and juridical persons promoting the implementation of the SBAR goals and objectives
Members of SBAR • The Volga Region Association of Business Angels – “Start (Initial) Investment” • International Foundation for Technologies and Investment • Non-Commercial Partnership – “INTECH” • OJSC “NIKOR” • CJSC “AKADEM-PARTNER” • “BISS Ltd” • “ATIS” company • “NETECH Ltd” • “Angel Investor” magazine • Natural persons
The SBAR development concept was approved at the meeting of the National Commonwealth of Business Angels on 26 January 2007
SBAR development concept Table of Contents: • General provisions • Business angels and innovation economy • SBAR and Russia: the society and the state 3.1. SBAR and society 3.2. SBAR and the state 4. Basic directions for the SBAR activity 4.1. Self-development 4.2. SBAR – for its members 4.3. Development of the company partnership 4.4. International activity 4.5. Economic activity 5. SBAR and its business partners
SBAR development concept 1. General provisions • The SBAR development concept determines the basic SBAR activities for the perspective. • Mission: assistance in acceleration of the innovation development of the country and growth (based on this) of the innovation GDP constituent. • Objective: assistance in formation and development of a new branch in the country’s economy – the ‘business angel’ investment based on creation of favorable conditions for the business angels’ activity in Russia. • Business angels (BA) and small innovation companies (SIC) is a single whole. BA are a part of SIC.
SBAR development concept 2. Business angels and innovation economy • Business angels are a unique investment mechanism (long terms, high risks, a single team, “smart” money, etc.), the commercialization process start and investment in the so-called “seed stage” • BA (pre-ventured financing) together with the venture investing (VI) are the key financial mechanisms for the SIC of the early stages • Volumes of the investment resources in the BA and VI sectors determine the size and speed of innovation development. The BA and VI equilibration on stocks and objects for investment (SIC) • BA play out an important social role: investment in scientists, science and intellectual potential • Governments of the countries create preferences, privileges and benefits for BA and SIC for the purposes of capital formation in the small innovation sector
SBAR development concept 3. SBAR and Russia: the society and the state BA development status by the beginning of 2007 • BA are not formed as a part of the society, state and economy • Fragmentariness – the separate BA poorly interacting between each other • UNIDENTIFIABILITY of BA • Neither by society, nor by the state – as an investor-subject of economy. There is no idea of ‘business angels’ • Potential investors (by availability of capital) identify themselves as BA – lack of information, knowledge and experience • Financial insufficiency – a small fund volume in the BA sector
SBAR development concept 3.1.SBAR and society SBAR priorities • Introduction of the BA term to everyday life • Creation of a positive image for BA and SIC in the social consciousness – architects of the economy of knowledge and the economy of the future… for the benefit of everyone: citizens, society and the state • Explanation and clarification of the essence of BA and their activity, a single team (BA, inventors, managers, etc.) and objective, new relationship, confidence, mutual aid, respect, etc. • Capital formation in the BA sector, demonstration of the BA business profitability and availability, as well as of the history of success The slogan is: “Invest in the innovation Russia”
SBAR development concept 3.1.SBAR and society Measures for implementation of priorities A broad propaganda of the business angel movement and SBAR opportunities based on: • Publication of books and analytical articles, practical experience and successful business stories; • Appearances at forums, conferences and round tables of different level; • The own PR-actions organization; • Participation in TV- and radiobroadcasts; • Organization of the own, or in cooperation with partners, printed and information editions, as well as of TV- and radiobroadcasts; • Interviews to mass media.
SBAR development concept 3.2. SBAR and the state • SBAR and the state are partners in formation and development of the innovation economy Priority direction – to arrange an operating interaction with the bodies of executive and legislative power at the Federal and regional levels - on the basis of the principles of state-private partnership - for the purposes of organization of cooperation in the innovation policy development and implementation, legislation, projects and programs
SBAR development concept 3.2. SBAR and the state Basic measures on implementation: • The SBAR representatives’ participation in boards, commissions, councils, etc. created and functioning at authorities; • Initiating of the new and participating in the existing public, state-private and international programs and projects • Preparation of drafts for the new, as well as of alterations and supplements to the existing legislative acts and normative documents, and making proposals to the corresponding authorities
SBAR development concept 4. Basic directions of the SBAR activity 4.1. Self-development Objective: integration and growth of partnership in the number of members, stock, aiding to BA in the investment process Basic directions: • Involvement of the new members in SBAR, development of the regional networks • Arrangement of a close interaction inside SBAR based on the state-of-the-art TV- and information systems • The SBAR personnel formation and development
SBAR development concept 4. Basic directions of the SBAR activity 4.2. SBAR – for its members The main objective is rendering an overall aid to BA and SIC during all innovation cycle – from introduction to the business to ‘way out’ of the projects, as well as within the period of formation of a BA as an investor Priority directions 4.2.1. SBAR – for business angels • Protection of interests of the business angels’ community and SBAR members; • Training business angels, improving the level of their professional skills, business trainings for the beginners and potential business angels on the principles of investment in the companies of the early stages; • Search and appraisal for the competitive projects, the due diligence conduct; • Rendering various consulting services (business planning, marketing, patents, law, etc.);
SBAR development concept 4. Basic directions of the SBAR activity 4.2.1. SBAR – for business angels Priority directions • A ground for interaction between business angels and innovation entrepreneurs, creation of the data base of the innovation companies prepared for investors in the form of a virtual trade fair for the “seed” projects, conduct of presentations of innovation companies for business angels; • Search for partners for co-investment including those among business angels, venture funds, direct investment funds, in the framework of public projects and programs, etc.; • Creation of the collective investment mechanisms in the form of a seed fund and venture fund of SBAR; • Business trainings for the business angel project managers; • Services on management and co-management of the business angels’ projects;
SBAR development concept 4. Basic directions of the SBAR activity4.2.1. SBAR – for business angels • A ground for interaction between business angels for the purposes of experience exchange, search for partners (the Business Angels’ Club, conferences, congresses, conventions, round tables, seminars, etc.); • Popularization of the most successful business angels’ experience; • Creation and development of a powerful and intensive information support for the business angels’ activity (the SBAR website); • Monitoring of development of the business angel investment in Russia and abroad, collection of statistical data on the business angels’ investment and development of the companies invested by them; issue of the regular analytical reviews
SBAR development concept 4. Basic directions of the SBAR activity 4.2.2. SBAR – for the business angels’ innovation companies • Training, business trainings for managers of those innovation companies which are already invested by business angels or planning to be invested; • Preparation of innovation companies for the business angel investing; • Preparation of the business angels’ innovation companies for the capital formation at further stages of development in the form of the venture and direct investment, as well as from the other sources; • Preparation of the business angels’ innovation companies for ‘way out’ of a project, search for a strategic investor, coming out to the IPO;
SBAR development concept 4. Basic directions of the SBAR development 4.2.2. SBAR – for the business angels’ innovation companies • Assistance in placing the small innovation companies in technological parks and business incubators; • Selection of the qualified innovation managers, creation and development of a SBAR employment agency; • Creation of favorable conditions for sale of the innovation products and companies (exhibitions, trade fairs, in the framework of a single SBAR stand; creation and development of the SBAR trade house)
SBAR development concept 4. Basic directions of the SBAR activity 4.3. Development of the company partnership Objective: to promote in arrangement of the good private and business relations between the SBAR members based on the following basic principles: - equality of members - priority of interests of Russia, society and science - a solicitous and correct attitude of business angels to each other, a mutual respect of the SBAR members’ interests - confidence, reliability, OBLIGATORINESS, confidentiality and goodwill - exclusion of the actions and acts that cause damage to the SBAR image and reputation - dismissal of those members violated the SBAR principles of mutual relationship; - The Ethic Code of Behavior for the SBAR members has been adopted
SBAR development concept 4. Basic directions of the SBAR activity 4.4. SBAR international activity Objective: integration to the International Community of BA, experience exchange, foreign capital formation, entry of the Russian innovation companies to the world market with their products, as well as to the world stock exchanges Basic directions: • Joining and arranging the interaction with the European Association of Business Angels; • Interaction with the National Associations of Business Angels in different countries; • Training and experience exchange of business angels abroad; • Organization and participation in the international venture trade fairs and business angel trade fairs; conferences, forums, presentations, etc.; • The foreign capital formation in the Russian innovation companies from different sources including: - international and public projects and programs focused on Russia - foreign grants - foreign business angels, venture funds and other investors • Assistance in search for the foreign business partners for the purposes of promotion of the innovation companies’ products to the world market; • Participation in the Russian programs and projects focused on the entry of innovation companies to the world market; • Assistance in entry of the Russian innovation companies to the world stock exchanges of high techs (IPO) and search for the foreign strategic partners
SBAR development concept 4. Basic directions of the SBAR activity4.5. Economic activity Implementation of the assigned tasks will need the significant financial resources the volume of which will be increased in the course of time. Primary sources: • SBAR members’ contributions (regular and target ones); • Funds received from paying for the advisory, expert and other services and works; • Sponsor funds; • Funds received from the research work execution; • Optional contributions; • International and state/public grants; • Other legal sources.
SBAR development concept 5. SBAR and its business partners SBAR is intended to cooperate actively with all main innovation activity subjects as well as have an impact on enhancement of the economic mode for functioning of the objects included to the national innovation system* Innovation activity subjects: • Main subject – the innovation companies by the stages of development • Knowledge generation subjects (an inventor, the organizations carrying out the R&D) • Management subjects (an innovation manager and a managing company) • Financing subjects classified by the stages of development of companies (business angels, state funds, direct investment funds, banks, etc.) • Infrastructure subjects (business incubators, technological parks, couching centers, consulting organizations, etc.) • Subjects of state and public regulation of innovation activity • Innovation product consumption subjects (enterprises, natural persons)__________________________________________ *The classification is published in the article titled “A new approach to forming the innovation legislation” (“Innovations” magazine №3(90), 2006).
SBAR development concept 5. SBAR and its business partners Innovation activity objects • Innovation activity state and public regulation objects (laws, acts, normative acts, regulations, orders, instructions, statements, standards, norms, agreements, etc.) • Intellectual property objects – patents, certificates of authorship, certificates for useful models, etc. • Innovation products – certificates, licenses, etc. • Innovation manufacture objects – technologies, equipment, etc. • Innovation projects – state and private projects, target programs focused on the innovation activity development • Innovation companies’ shares • Contracts and agreements between the innovation activity subjects
SBAR development concept 5. SBAR and its business partners The SBAR main priorities in respect of the innovation activity subjects and objects Subjects: • Public and business associations and, first of all, the Russian Association for Direct and Venture Investment (RAVI), RF CCI, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurship (RUIE), DELOVAYA ROSSIYA, OPORa and others • Institutes of higher education, scientific institutions and inventors – sources for the new knowledge and workouts • Financial mechanisms – venture funds, direct investment funds, state and private funds, banks, stock exchanges, etc. • Infrastructure – technological parks, business incubators, auditing and consulting agencies
SBAR development concept 5. SBAR and its business partners Objects: • State and private innovation projects and programs. Proposals on participation in the existing, as well as in development of the new projects and programs concerned with the support for the business angel financing and innovation companies • Intellectual property objects – the proposals on increase of effectiveness in use of the intellectual property objects, motivation of inventors in commercialization of technologies • Shares of innovation companies, perfection of the corporate legislation promoting the establishment of the managerial balance between business angels, inventors, managers and other owners of innovation companies • Contracts and agreements between the innovation activity subjects – working out of the Russian standards for contracts and other documents for the business angel investment, as well as formation and development of innovation companies.
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