IBTI is a Russian non-profit organization founded by:
the Academy of National Economy under the RF Government
the Russian Fund for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises
(FASIE)
American "Fenix Technology International, Inc." company
IBTI was established in 1994 as a joint Russian-American program financed by the US Agency for International Development (USAID). It is a virtual Incubator, with no walls, where every company (inventor, R&D lab) can find effective supporting assistance wherever they are really running business – near or far from Moscow.
The first General manager of IBTI (1994-1998) was the current Vice-President of AMT, Nina Fonstein.
The main focus of that original project was supposed to help solving All-Russia problems of commercialization of breakthrough technologies and R&D results.The main functions of IBTI:
Promotion of scientific projects to Russian and world technology markets: