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Table 3 Northwest Education Cluster—participants by sector
Government Academe Foundations/NGOs Industry

Oregon State
Superintendent of
Schools

Oregon Health & Science
University

Oregon Business Plan eCollege

Oregon Governors'
Office

Portland State University Chalkboard Project Cenquest

Oregon Department of
Education

University of Oregon Portland Schools

Foundation

Saltare
Software

Willamette Educational
Service District

Various public and charter
schools

Oregon Cluster
Network

Local PR
firm

University of Portland Teachers' union Other firms

5 Russia and China

5.1 Russia

In the mid-1990s, Prof. Nikolai Rogalev of Moscow's Institute of Power
Machinery and Mechanics traveled to the IC 2 Institute to learn the techniques of
incubation and commercialization. He built Russia's first incubators and started his
institute's commercialization and spin-off programs. 15 years later, Rogalev's
pioneering work is being replicated elsewhere in post-Soviet Russia because of
that country's government's efforts to foster closer ties between Russian academe
and industry.
Project Eureca (Enhancing University Research and Entrepreneurial Capacity)
joins a number of Russia's national research universities with four American
universities for training and action in technology transfer and academic-industry
cooperation. Private foundations from the US and Russia have pledged up to $2.5-
million a year for Eureca's initial 2 years of support (Table 5 ).
According to the Chronicle of Higher Education (Blumenstyk 2010 ) and those
the paper interviewed, Eureca's goals are to:

• Familiarize Russian governments and universities with the (to them) new ideas
of technology transfer and university-industry partnerships.
• Increase Russian knowledge of intellectual property best practices.

Table 4 Northwest Education Cluster—what each sector contributes
Government

Academe Foundations/NGOs Industry

Policy direction Research on learning Philanthropy Advanced

products

Access to policy
makers

Markets for educational
products

Social entrepreneurship Jobs

Export assistance Course content Research on educational

needs

Input on policy