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Product Manager vs. Project Manager: What’s in the Name?
…Product and project: key differences The labor market often mixes up product and project managers. But there is a cardinal difference between a product and a project. A product is something tangible, like an object. It’s not limited in time: its development can last forever. When its development halts, the product dies. Meanwhile, a project is a process with clear…
13.03.2020
“We Got Noticed by Intel and IBM”: How an ITMO Technopark Resident is Winning Over the American Robotics Market
…oducts for telecom companies. So, I wasn’t creating anything myself, I was working on strategies and business plans for other companies. I wanted to get experience in business management. That’s why I joined Sergei’s team, and then met Aleksandr Kapitonov. We began to cooperate with Babak Kia (development director, Boston University professor, Internet of Thin…
13.03.2020
Alexia Vanmalder: I Love Being in Russia. This Culture Is So Different From What I’m Used To
… you think are friendship and collaboration at university? I consider friendship and collaboration are important as motivation and hard work. At my university, I think that managing everything on your own, without a friend to guide you and help you out, would be complicated. I don’t know if it is the same here at ITMO. Moreover, I believe that these two values are…
12.03.2020
ITMO University PhD student Karina Pats on Her Job in the Field of Bioinformatics in Kazakhstan and her Career in Academia
… Kazakhstan. Why did you go there specifically? What was the project about? Let me start from the very beginning. I was a Bachelor’s student at the Industrial Biotechnology Management program at Saint Petersburg State Chemical Pharmaceutical University (SPCPU). Once, professor Ferdinand Molnar visited the academy with a series of lectures on industrial biotechnolo…
12.03.2020
First ITMO Ecohack Participants Create Automatic Waste Sorting System
…n, but would also notify the recycling facility when the bin is ready to be unloaded. Each project was presented in front of a jury that consisted of Yuri Kuporosov, a manager at ITMO University’s Student Initiatives Support Department, Anna Smirnova, the head of the waste sorting implementation department at RazdelnySbor (Russian for “separate waste collecti…
11.03.2020
Edible Food Wrap, Supplements for Bees and a Natural Antiseptic: Exploring New Applications for One of the Most Common Biopolymers
… which is what we do. We have achieved some rather interesting results by combining chitosan with sodium alginate, which are actually thermodynamically incompatible, but we managed to build the technology in such a way that we made them compatible. We are now waiting for the latest data on the properties of these wraps. We hope that this will be a new word in thi…
11.03.2020
How to Start a Career in Radiophysics: Results of an Open Workshop at ITMO University
…hat the most important takeaway at the internship stage is not money but experience. Your prospects of finding full-time employment and your first salary depend on whether you manage to put your best foot forward. The organizers of the first open workshop Antennae of the Future note that the event helped start a dialogue between motivated students seeking career …
11.03.2020
Business Model Canvas Week: Students from Russia, Finland, and Germany Join Forces on Sustainable Business and Recycling
…yers and possibly influence certain decisions,” explains Prof. Wickman-Viitala. According to Irina Sergeeva, a professor at ITMO University’s Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations and the event’s organizer, the topic of recycling was suggested by the Finnish colleagues, but it’s relevant to ITMO University as well: “Even last year, half of…
10.03.2020
ITMO University Students Participate in Training on Oil Production Simulators Used by Gazprom Neft
…gineering. Currently, ITMO and Gazprom Neft are discussing the possibility of creating a join specialization as part of the Master’s program Bioeconomics and Resource Management. “It’s very important for us to have access to highly qualified specialists fully ready to work at a modern company,” says Anisa Kunakova, head of Oilfield Chemistry Department …
10.03.2020
Scientists Propose New Nanoparticles That Can Potentially Be Used to Treat Cancer with Magnetic Fluid Hyperthermia
…ic field and their further heating stops,” explains Vasilii Balanov. “When the temperature drops back again, the particles resume their heating. Essentially, we observe a self-management of temperature in a narrow range. If we select a composition that experiences such a transition at the temperature we need, then it could prove effective for magnetic fluid hyperther…
10.03.2020