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• ITMO's Technopark Establishes Cooperation with a Major Food Production Company

  Resident's of ITMO Technopark and the university's research teams presented their research and inventions at Atria Russia's production plant in Gorelovo. Members of the university's delegation acquainted themselves with the technologies used by the company and discussed potential collaboration projects, including new methods of tagging raw materials and tracking their consumption, inspection of meat product contamination, as well as the use of functional blends.

  31.05.2017

• Foresight Fleet 2017: St. Petersburg Is To Become A Global Construction Bureau

  From May 14 to 18, the first regional Foresight Fleet 2017 took place in St. Petersburg. The main topic was the future development of the Northern Capital and Russia's North-West in the conditions of digital transformation. Among the event's participants were representatives of St. Petersburg’s universities, innovative development institutes, and government officials.

  27.05.2017

• Everybody Wants a Piece of the Pie: Why Universities Need to Create and Support Innovation

  One day – and that day might come very soon – the Earth’s resources will run out, its population will exceed 10 billion and people need to innovate to sustain development. Issues will begin to emerge that can’t be dealt with without innovative solutions. Even today, humanity encounters problems that can’t be solved by conventional methods. Universities become sources of ideas – but how can these ideas be commercialized? How to find investors to support the process of innovation? How do universities retain their scientists and how can scientists get rid of the obstacles on their path to discovery? These were the topics of discussion at an open seminar at ITMO University, given by Professor Manijeh Reyhani – a researcher at the Centre for Entrepreneurial Management and Innovation (CEMI) at the University of Western Australia who has received her PhD in Materials Engineering and a Professional Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) in the area of research innovation and commercialization.

  19.05.2017

• ITMO University Graduates Will Help Integrate Technological Innovations

  The new Bachelor’s Degree program “Technological Innovations Management” will open for admission this summer, and on September 1 new students will become the pioneers of this new field. Elena Budrina, head of Department of Transportation Systems Management and one of the masterminds and creators of the program, spoke to us about what makes it unique, what kind of work the first graduates would be able to look forward to and why it is different from programs on innovation studies that already exist in Russia.

  17.05.2017

• Solar Panel of the New Generation by ITMO PhD Student

  On one hand, solar panels are a green solution, but on the other, they are very expensive and not very effective. However, cutting expenses on them will increase the popularity of  this alternative energy source. ITMO’s PhD student Mikhail Omelyanovich is working on reducing the cost for solar panels using perovskites and laser ablation. ITMO.NEWS talked to Mikhail about his development.  

  25.04.2017

• ITMO University Becomes the Co-Founder of CINPET Innovation Center

  On March 27, ITMO became one of the co-founders of the new Center for Innovative Research, Development and Production Technologies, CINPET. The new center will focus on solving problems that have to do with the city economy, including those related to energy. Students of its partner universities will get the opportunity to offer their projects for optimizing the center's work.

  29.03.2017

• 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

• Jobs of the Future: Who Will Design Emotions and Preach IT Knowledge?

  What happens on the backstage of the world’s largest telecomm companies? What are the main trends of this sector and what specialists will be in demand in this field? Specialists of Megafon, the Russian phone and telecom operator, answered these questions during an interactive lecture, which became part of the event devoted to the Day of Technological Entrepreneurship and Innovations.

  13.02.2017

• IT-Breakthrough in St. Petersburg: from Machine Vision to Smart Feeders

  Last week, ITMO University hosted the regional round of the All-Russian project contest in IT — the IT-Breakthrough. 11 representatives from ITMO University and Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation presented their projects in the field of robotics, computer security, mobile applications and radio electronics. The jury of the contest appreciated the SmartQuest project and the new complex system for analyzing and preventing hacker attacks.

  14.12.2016

• Innovation Ecosystems Forum: Universities are to Turn into Corporations

  The recent "Innovations Ecosystem" in Sochi gathered more than 300 participants — representatives of state and regional authorities, innovation clusters, business incubators and universities were among them.

  13.12.2016