Gyeonggi Gov. Kim Moon-soo will sign a memorandum of understanding on technology investment with Russian Technologies State Corp. Friday, Gyeonggi provincial office said Thursday.

Kim visited Moscow to sound out Russian joint investments with Gyeonggi-based small and medium-sized companies, and met with Alyoshin Aleksei Vladislavovich, first deputy director general of the Moscow-based state institution with about 420 leading public firms under its wing.

During their meeting, Kim offered to strike a deal to link about 10 companies of Russia Technologies State Corp. to Korean firms in the province, and Vladislavovich accepted his proposal, officials said.

The governor also requested he visit Gyeonggi together with representatives of the Russian companies.

Gyeonggi plans to create a task force specializing in attracting Russian investment in a bid to support technology transfer from Russia to small and mid-sized companies in the fields of mechanical engineering, metal, space and aviation, among others.

Earlier in the day, Kim signed a three-party MOU on technology cooperation at Bauman Moscow State Technical University in Moscow with Ivan A. Arkharov, vice rector for international relations of the university, and Choi Jun-yeong, president of Korea Polytechnic University.

Under the accord, the Bauman university will transfer high technologies to promising Gyeonggi-based companies, which will then commercialize them.

Korea Polytechnic University will seek to establish an internationally competitive joint venture in cooperation with the Russian university, which has produced multiple Nobel Prize winners in science and nine cosmonauts.

By Chun Sung-woo (swchun@heraldcorp.com)