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“Innovative Entrepreneurship” Master’s Program: Starting Your Business at ITMO University
…rs. And this is a level of confidence that we want our students to have. From your experience, what are the competencies that modern entrepreneurs lack most? And how do you solve this issue at the new program? Back to the topic of competencies, one of the key aspects that many entrepreneurs have problems with is industry-specific regulation. For some reason, mo…
07.06.2019
Gennady ‘Tourist’ Korotkevich: My First Defeat Only Made Me Want to Win More
…evel. And, inversely, there are many things about biology that programmers, even champions, won’t understand at first. I met Alexey yesterday and he gave me another task to solve. From a scientific viewpoint, those who take part in competitions are good at solving these complex tasks as long as they’re properly formulated. We coul…
06.06.2019
Good Business: How Business Simulations Help Create Social Initiatives
…ance, the examples given in the first part of the game are picked to be relevant to our participants. Each team rolls the dice to see which social issue they will be trying to solve, and then they learn to find solutions using social business. Our goal is not to find the most important issue, but to teach the principle of social entrepreneurship, to help players unde…
06.06.2019
ITMO University’s UniFEL Center Staff to Conduct New Research at European XFEL
…About European XFEL The European XFEL is an international project aimed at the creation of the world’s largest free-electron laser intended for solving a wide range of tasks in both fundamental and applied research, including medicine and cutting-edge technology. Costing over a billion euros, the project was developed at the DESY research center in Germany between…
06.06.2019
ITMO Researchers Develop Alternative Liquid-Based THz Radiation Source
…ount of excitation energy, resulting in a stronger energy output. They are also cheaper and more accessible. New findings The researchers’ main task remains the same: to solve the issue of absorbency. To provide a solution, physicists from ITMO University experimented with finding the optimal type of liquid, the thickness of jets, the strength of excitation rad…
03.06.2019
Konstantin Zaytsev, One of Top-5 Young Russian Scientists in Systems Biology, on Systems Biology in Russia
…for your project? I’ve been working with this technology for several years, and I’ve come to understand that there are issues in this field that different people learned to solve by various means. On the one hand, in such conditions when you have a great number of cells, you start to analyze data and try to understand which types of cells you have (for example …
31.05.2019
InnoCamp: How Russian and Finnish Students Reinvent Old Spaces
…emote stage we collected data, worked on mini-cases and learned about competing markets. We also learned about our key customers. We would constantly ask ourselves “How can we solve this issue?”, “Why should they buy our product?”, and “Who will be our main customers?” When we came to Kotka, we were astounded at the scale of it all. The atmosphere was captivat…
31.05.2019
ITMO University Teams Take the Crown at Yauza CTF-2019, RealCTF and FaustCTF Cybersecurity Competitions
…ersecurity competition that tests its participants’ ability to protect computer systems from external attacks. The participants are split into teams and given various tasks to solve. Their goals depend on the format of the competition. In the classic Attack-Defense format, the players interact with each other during the competition. Each team receives a server with a…
30.05.2019
New Method for Analyzing Genes Activity Helps Predict Cancer Patients Survival
…s can contain millions of different cells that need to be distinguished from each other in order for us to understand exactly what processes are happening in the tissue. To solve this problem, scientists have come up with special deconvolution algorithms, which allow to decompose the data and match it to different cell types. This method helps form an understandin…
28.05.2019
Cybersport, Innovative Healthcare and Retail Solutions: Startups Present Their Projects at iHarvest Angels Pitch Session
…ch session, participants were asked to give a five-minute presentation during which they had to talk the experts through the main idea of their project, the problem it aims to solve, its competitive advantages over similar offers on the market, as well as analyze the target market, give an overview of the team and set forth their team’s strategy for making their proj…
28.05.2019