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• FactoryFinder: ITMO Graduates Develop Service To Optimize Procurement

  According to the data by GfK Rus research agency, more than a third of Internet users regularly make purchases in Internet stores; consumers are becoming more used to choosing and buying things online, and various services allow them to quickly order a taxi, book a ticket or rent an apartment. Yet, can this work in the b2b segment? Purchase coordinators sometimes have to spend days or even weeks to find a really good offer and purchase the goods they were looking for. Team FactoryFinder decided to come up with a solution and developed an online service for optimizing the processes in procurement departments, a platform that brings together suppliers, engineers, and purchase coordinators. The service's main task is to automatize the work of the latter and let companies find best offers quickly. Half of FactoryFinder's team are graduates of ITMO and the company is a resident of the university's Technopark; as of now, it has offices in St. Petersburg, Tallin and Berlin. Read more about the service, the peculiarities of business in Russia and how a common platform can help foreign companies understand it in an article by ITMO.NEWS.

  30.08.2017

• ITMO and Partners Launch Women’s Acceleration Program Girls4Tech

  On June 30 the Girls4Tech project school for female programmers, engineers and entrepreneurs was launched in St. Petersburg and Moscow. The school is organized by ITMO University, Moscow Polytechnic University and the Moscow office of international accelerator NUMA. In the next three months, the school’s participants, aided by mentors, will develop their soft and hard skills as part of a tailor-made educational program that includes lectures on innovation marketing and project management, programming classes, prototyping at FabLab, case solving, business games and various other activities.

  04.07.2017

• ITMO Scientists Develop New Protective Pipeline Coating

  For several months a scientific team from ITMO University collaborated with scientists from the science division of JSC “Kronos SPb” on the creation of a new coating type intended to protect oil and gas pipelines from corrosion. The resulting coating meets all of the modern requirements and retains its protective properties under high temperatures. Evgenia Guseva, a postgraduate student at ITMO University’s Department of IT in the Fuel and Energy Industry and one of the creators of this material, spoke to ITMO.NEWS about what makes this new coating stand out among its existing counterparts on the market.

  23.06.2017

• ITMO 3.0 Reload: Battle of the Strongest

  This Wednesday, on May 31, the final pitch session of ITMO Reload 3.0's second season took place. For the last two months, teams have been working on projects that had to do with commercializing a particular ITMO invention. Their work involved three stages: studying a technology, developing a project on its commercialization, and preparing for the investor presentation and pitch.  The six teams had only five minutes each to present their project to the experts and the event's partners and compete for the main prize - 50,000 rubles provided by the RexLexNova technology brokering company. The winner also got the opportunity to present his solution at an international business seminar in Ljubljana (Slovenia) organized by the Russian Cultural Center and RLN. In this article, we'd like to share about the projects that got into the finals

  02.06.2017

• Two-in-One: Why Does One Need to Combine Advantages of Electronic and Probe Microscopes?

  NT-Spb, one of ITMO Technopark’s residents, developed equipment, which fuses together the best properties of electronic and probe microscopes – it allows increasing its efficiency and capacity.  As of now, the equipment has no counterparts in Russia.  

  19.04.2017

• ITMO's Technology Brokering School: Results and Prospects

  The three-month course at ITMO's Technology Brokering School has come to an end; last Monday, its graduates presented their projects to an expert jury. Which projects got into the finals, how the School will continue to develop and what the Fundit Fundraising School is about - read that and more in our article.

  17.04.2017

• 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

• From Idea to Business in Eight Weeks: The Second Session of ITMO 3.0 Reload

  About half a year ago, ITMO's student Malika Abdullaeva decided to replace protein cocktails with ice-cream that’s stripped from everything sportsmen avoid while "shredding" - fats, sugar and the like. The idea was suggested by her friend, who worked as a fitness instructor, and with help from ITMO 3.0 Reload, Malika succeeded in bringing the project to the point of actually having the end product. In just several months, her team Pro&Ice has not only perfected the recipe, but also brought it to the minimum viable product stage and even pitched their project in Finland, and is now getting ready to receive their first investment. Yet, there is more to come, believes Konstantin Peresh, ITMO 3.0's coordinator. On March, 29th, ITMO 3.0's second season starts, and several tens more students will get the opportunity to work with the university's technologies, study the market and make their first steps to launching their own businesses. In an interview to ITMO.NEWS, he shared about the project's details.

  17.03.2017

• A Different Approach — ITMO’s New Program on Project Management

  How to make the collaboration between managers and developers successful? Should developers promote their startups themselves? What's it like — being a manager of a technological project and helping startupers promote new products? Master's students from the Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations know the answer: for more than half a year, they've been honing their entrepreneurial skills while working on projects from the Future Technologies accelerator. In an interview with our portal, they've shared about this new innovative educational strategy.

  10.01.2017

• ITMO 3.0 Reload: 2016's Results

  ITMO 3.0 Reload — this year's final event dedicated to research commercialization — took place last Thursday. During this pitch session organized by the Project Management and Innovation Department and Faculty of Technological Management and Innovations, five teams presented their projects to a special jury, and got important feedback on how to develop their ideas.

  27.12.2016