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Entrepreneurial Culture Bachelor’s courses

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Module description 

A sustainable future is created by the ability to make relevant decisions in given circumstances. Seeing opportunities and being able to take action to realize them is what the educational module “Entrepreneurial Culture” teaches.

Under the guidance of experienced experts and mentors, you will learn to navigate your future from a proactive position, seeking the best and most advantageous solutions, regardless of the path you have chosen: researcher, developer, or entrepreneur.

Autumn semester: unified course “Introduction to Technological Entrepreneurship”

Spring semester: choice of disciplines across three tracks:

  • Startup Track – for those who want to develop their own technology in the market, work in a startup team, create their own business project, and gain the necessary tools to do so.

  • Project Track – for those who want to acquire project management skills and/or participate in identifying market opportunities for one of the university’s technologies.

  • Functional Track – for gaining specific skills in project development, such as project packaging or financial management. Relevant for both business and research projects.

Contact us
Elizaveta Moshurova, curator of the module
E-mail: emoshurova@itmo.ru

Polina Biryulina, module manager

E-mail: psbiriulina@itmo.ru

Introduction to Tech Entrepreneurship

Introduction to Tech Entrepreneurship

This is a unified course for students of all specializations at the University. Its goal is to develop the basic economic thinking of a technological leader. You will get acquainted with the fundamentals of entrepreneurial culture and the processes underlying the creation and development of innovative businesses, gain an understanding of how ideas turn into sustainable projects, and acquire skills in market analysis and business model design.

Each practical session involves applying tools for creating a technological project in new mini-groups and formats. In the final stage, you will be expected to propose a business idea within one of the technological fields explored during the course and may even receive support in its implementation.


Startup track

Startup track: general vector / AI market / market / IT robots / creative technologies / energy / Life Science market

Foodtech Startup Development: From Idea to MVP (in Russian)

You can find more information here Реализация стартап-проектов на рынке Foodtech. От идеи до MVP (in Russian)


Teachers:


Yulia Boytsova

Project Track

Market Challenges: Developing Business Solutions (in Russian)

You can find more information here Рыночные вызовы: разработка бизнес-решений (in Russian)


Teachers:


Victoria Bichurina

Anton Antipov

Ekaterina Makarenko

Andrey Volkhontsev

Svetlana Gromova

Project Management Practicum (in Russian)

You can find more information here Практикум по проектному менеджменту (in Russian)


Teachers:


Anastasia Druzhinina

Alexey Feskov

Alexandra Sharonova

Gleb Novikov

Function Track

Business Models of Key Innovation Economy Sectors (in Russian)

You can find more information here Бизнес-модели основных секторов инновационной экономики (in Russian)


Teachers:


Boytsova Julia

Andrey Volkhontsev

Fundamentals of Intellectual Property (in Russian)

You can find more information here Основы интеллектуальной собственности (in Russian)


Teachers:


Andrey Nikolaev

Sergey Savchenko

Anton Endresyak

Legal Issues in Startup Management (in Russian)

You can find more information here Правовые особенности функционирования стартапов (in Russian)


Teachers:


Roman Yankovsky

Project and Organization Finances (in Russian)

You can find more information here Финансы проекта и организации (in Russian)


Teachers:


Daria Kochetkova

Branding laboratory (in Russian)

You can find more information here Лаборатория брендинга (in Russian)


Teachers:


Alexander Glazov

Social Entrepreneurship (in Russian)

You can find more information here Социальное предпринимательство (in Russian)


Teachers:


Vera Viktorova

Olga Alexandrova