US Russia Innovation Corridor

Administered by American Councils for International Education, provides assistance to start-up companies

The US-Russia Innovation Corridor (www.usric.org) seeks to increase collaboration in innovation and commercialization between the U.S. and Russia. USRIC grew out of a relationship between the University of Maryland and the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod established through the Enhancing University Research and Entrepreneurial Capacity (EURECA) program. The US-Russia Innovation Corridor (USRIC), administered by American Councils for International Education, provides assistance to start-up companies, innovative projects and universities wishing to explore collaborations with U.S. partners. USRIC is open to start-ups as well as university research and innovations that have not yet formed a business. USRIC projects will be linked to university entrepreneurship education, incubation or acceleration programs, to enrich those programs with the information, networks and concrete real-life cases that USRIC provides.