“Innovative Arctic” is new international competition for developers of advanced technologies and products apply till September 15, 2014. The competition is organized by the Regional Innovation and Technology Center “Start” (Gubkinskiy, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District) and Business Incubator “Ingria” (St. Petersburg). 

Participants of ”Innovative Arctic” should be small innovative companies - developers and manufacturers of innovative products; enterprises – residents of technoparks or innovation and technology centers; small innovative enterprises of institutions of higher education; enterprises included in the register of innovation activity of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District; business teams from Russia and abroad, presenting innovative developments for the Arctic regions.

“Innovative Arctic” is looking for projects from following areas:

Cleantech: 

- Technologies for efficient energy production and conversion of for fossil fuels

- Technologies for environment monitoring and forecasting, pollution preventing and eliminating

- Technologies for the prevention and elimination of natural and man-induced emergencies

- Technologies related to new and renewable energy sources, energy efficiency and energy saving

Including:  

- new technologies for energy saving and renewable energy

- products of natural gas processing

- processing technologies for quartz sand, clay, peat and other local materials

- water treatment technologies

- new technologies for sorting and recycling of domestic and industrial waste

 Industrial: 

- Technologies related to mineral exploration, earth-resource survey, mining activity, mineral production and transportation

- Technologies for different means of transportation

- Technologies in the agricultural sector

- Technologies for structural engineering

Including:  

- new road building techniques (including those for permafrost conditions)

- new technologies for structural engineering for extreme climatic zones

- technological solutions for oil and gas industry

- small-scale energy improving the quality of life of small peoples of the North

 BioMed: 

- Medical and veterinary biotechnologies

- Technologies for preventing of socially significant diseases 

- Including technologies of restoration of tundra ecosystems

 EverydayLife: 

- Nano-, bio-, information, cognitive technologies

- Technologies tourism

For more information see: http://innovation24.ru