Entrepreneurial Culture Bachelor’s courses

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Module description

A sustainable future creates opportunities to make relevant decisions in the proposed circumstances. Analyzing the proposed circumstances, finding opportunities, and being able to make attempts to implement them is what the educational module teaches.“Entrepreneurial culture".

Under the guidance of experienced experts and mentors, you will learn how to navigate your future from a proactive position of searching for the best and most profitable solution, regardless of which trajectory you have chosen for yourself: researcher, developer or entrepreneur.

We will meet with you twice in the bachelor's degree. In the fall semester, the course “Introduction to Technological Entrepreneurship” is a common one for all educational programs. In the spring semester, in the discipline of one of the tracks of your choice:

A startup track is for those who want to develop their own technology in the market, work in a start-up team, create their own business project and have the tools for this.
The project track is for those who want to have project management skills and/or participate in the search for a market opportunity for one of the university's technologies.
A functional track is used to acquire specific skills within the framework of project development, for example, project packaging or financial support. It is relevant for both business and scientific 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

The discipline is aimed at developing the basic economic and entrepreneurial thinking necessary for working with technological products and innovative business projects. During the course, you will learn the basics of market functioning, consumer behavior, competitive environment, principles of business modeling, marketing tools, financial logic of the project and the specifics of the development of key sectors of the innovative economy — ICT, AI, Robotics, FoodTech, EnergyTech, Biotech, LiveScience, Creative Technology and EdTech. Special attention is paid to the analysis of market opportunities, the formulation of a value proposition, the evaluation of business models of real companies, the development and verification of business hypotheses. At the end of the course, you will gain an understanding of how technological ideas relate to market needs, company resources, financial constraints, and commercialization prospects.