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• “YellowRockets:” How Russian Startupers Enter Global Markets

  In 2014, YellowRockets  (the previous name StartupSamara) was a small community with rare meetings – now it is a large accelerator, which already attracted over 600 million rub for startups and entered different international markets. According to the accelerator’s head Sergei Bogdanov, its main achievement is that more and more young entrepreneurs are interested in this activity. 

  18.04.2017

• Grants for Universities: One Has to Know When to Stop

  These days universities are more than "knowledge hubs." Modern universities also gain to satisfy needs of business and society. For these purposes they commercialize their innovations — this process is impossible without intellectual property laws. The participants of the multiregional seminar organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) discussed the details and difficulties of interaction of universities, government and the industry. ITMO’s Faculty of the International Business and Law was one of the main partners of the event.

  17.03.2017

• Soft Skills for Engineers: Students Presented Solutions for Real-Life Business Cases

  The participants of the First Grant Competition Contest presented their solutions for real industrial tasks offered by companies of the Joint-Stock Financial Corporation "Sistema."

  16.03.2017

• Good Product: One-Click Food by Young Entrepreneurs

  Oleg Novikov and Mikhail Kozlov, residents of Future Technologies accelerator, talked about their unique project of food delivery service, which allows to forget about staying in lines at supermarkets and makes farm food more affordable.

  20.02.2017

• How to Make an Ideal Pitch and Win the Investor: Lessons and Tips from the Saint-Startup Forum

  How can a first year student create his first serious business, or persuade an investor in just 4 minutes? These and many more questions were answered at the Saint-Startup Forum last Saturday at ITMO University. The event included business games, quests, meeting with investors, an "ideal pitch session" and the final battle of startups — not to speak of life-hacks, unique success cases, and many advices from the market's experts.

  20.02.2017

• Entrepreneurship as Profession: Troitsky "Technopark" Opens Russia’s First Entrepreneurial Club

  Building a successful high-technology company can be the task of a lifetime. Can one possibly understand whether he’s up to it, and in several hours, at that? Yes, believes Denis Kovalivich, stockholder and CEO of the Troitsky "Technopark" nanocenter. In an interview to ITMO.NEWS, he shared about their new project — Russia's first inter-university venture creation nanocenter.

  16.02.2017

• International Experts on Business Incubators and Accelerators in Russia

  What are startup accelerators and business incubators about? Growing a new generation of entrepreneurs? Speeding up startup development? It hasn't been long since they've appeared in Russia, but now a Russian university can't call itself progressive if it has no entrepreneurial environment. Yet, in pursuit of modern tendencies, one must not forget the very point of creating business incubators. Tom Strodtback, Director of European and Asian Partnerships at Global Accelerator Network, and Lynn Robertson, Liverpool Incubator Manager at Santander UK Corporate & Commercial, shared about how incubators help novice entrepreneurs, who invest in startups and their impressions of the entrepreneurial environment in Russia. Tom Strodtback and Lynn Robertson came to Russia to speak at a seminar for heads of business incubators and technoparks, which was hosted by ITMO University on February 6−7.

  10.02.2017

• Hult Prize On Campus 2020: Results, Participants, and Projects

  On December 6, ITMO Technopark hosted the final stage of the Hult Prize On Campus competition. The jury announced the winning team that will present its project in one of the European capitals.

  21.11.2024