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• “YellowRockets:” How Russian Startupers Enter Global Markets

  …ts. This makes it easier to attract money. As for Russia, everybody comes to Moscow, as it is the largest hub; St. Petersburg is the second largest one. They are full-fledged centers with their own business angels and modern infrastructures. There are also several innovation centers in Russia, that is,Kazan, Samara, Ekaterinburg and Tomsk. Despite the fact …

  18.04.2017

• ITMO's Technology Brokering School: Results and Prospects

  …ty's research and innovations comprehensible to an investor. Previously, the School conducted three-day workshops where its students got the opportunity to develop a full-fledged project. This time, the School launched a new pilot project - a three-month practical course on its students’ projects followed. "It happened that we allowed and even proposed our st…

  17.04.2017

• Gutenberg's Lounge: Why Stonehenge is an Observatory, How Satellites Stay on the Orbit and Where One Starts His Way to Mars

  …eople decide when to start or finish farmwork, and track other important dates. Nowadays, we see our modern calendar as something obvious. Yet for those who had little knowledge of the Solar system, the sun temples were a great breakthrough and a result of years of research. Most scientists agree on the famous Stonehenge being a sun temple as well, something like …

  14.04.2017

• Innovations for Everybody: How Young Inventors Patent their Projects

  …whether one has to patent an invention or not, does it make sense to keep manufacturing methods as trade secrets and so forth. All these peculiarities are about so-called knowledge economics that are in high demand. One needs specialists who know for sure what inventions are potentially beneficial. When developing a project they have to take into account all the risk…

  13.04.2017

• ITMO and Acronis Open New IT Lab

  …at skills a modern IT specialist has to obtain and find the balance between expectations and reality. On the other hand, this experience helps a team lead understand what knowledge, soft and hard skills the student has,” says Dmitry Raichuk. ITMO University is to become a communication hub where leading IT experts will share their experience. For example, Acroni…

  10.04.2017

• Total Dictation at ITMO University

  …t were corporate sites: in Krasnoyarsk, for instance, several companies organized them for their staff. All in all, there were 3,008 sites where participants tested their knowledge in Russian spelling, punctuation and grammar. One of such sites was ITMO University, which gathered about 300 people for the test. One of the Total Dictation's distinctive features is t…

  10.04.2017

• Career Guidance: Helping Students Choose Their Future

  …conomics published a new research about where and in what fields Russian highly qualified specialists work. According to this research, the percentage of those who do not knowledge gained during their university years in their work has decreased considerably, yet, they still amount to about one third. Specialists believe that the solution to the problem is in work…

  07.04.2017

• GoogleHashCode 2017: The Results

  …m the contests they are used to.  "It's great to have good results for such competitions, as we do not train for such contests at all. And that means that skills and knowledge we get during training for ACM ICPC are great for adjacent fields as well. We see competitions like GoogleHashCodemore as a change of pace, some sort of a recreational activity," comments …

  06.04.2017

• Clean Up Your Brains: The All-Russian Lab Session

  …'s its difference from today's popular outreach programs? Actually, the reasons behind conducting this project are quite serious: there is a great amount of scientific knowledge that has to do with how the world works; such knowledge is really important for understanding the world we live in, yet it's something we easily forget after…

  03.04.2017

• ScienceMedia-2017 Prizes

  …fice, funding, and our audience is quite limited. All of these problems have to do with our magazine being only a project a while ago, it has yet to get the traits of a full-fledged title. Yet, we plan on looking for more personnel, negotiating with administration and even trying to raise money by crowdfunding.   Maria Lukinenko, Samara State University Mari…

  30.03.2017