Trainings on the entrepreneurial competencies development were held at the Polytechnic University.

More than 180 students of IVSPU became participants of business intensive courses.

On November 14 and 16, the trainings were conducted by the speaker of the Startup Training Center, businessman and business consultant Nikolay Goleschikhin. With his help, participants understood how to form teams of technology startup, develop and package product hypotheses of a minimally viable product (MVP), how to analyze the market and competitors, form business models of the project, strategies for the development and scaling of the project. As a result, the teams proposed 12 ideas for business projects such as, for example, clothing design website "Designer Clothes", an electronic "Smart table", a robotic kitchen "Robopovar" and others.

And on November 17, intensive participants were waiting for the "StartupHub" training from the Business Development Center "Business Sphere". The training was conducted by business trainers: Vitaly Makarov, an entrepreneur with 25 years of experience, a graduate from the Institute of International Trade and Law at the Academy of Foreign Trade under the President of the Russian Federation, founder and head of the Successful Thinking project; author of a number of articles, books and seminars on the disclosure of personal and professional potential Pavel Verbnyak; consultant psychologist and transactional coach Natalia Pakhaleeva. During the training, students tried to form teams of a technology startup and assign roles in them, generated business strategies, developed MVP ideas, tested themselves in negotiations with an investor during a pitch session.

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The past events were a form of implementation of the additional general educational program "Training of entrepreneurial competencies" and were held within the framework of the federal project "Platform of University Technological Entrepreneurship" of the state program "Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation", for the implementation of which the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation is responsible. IVSPU, together with the "University Technological Entrepreneurship Platform", the "Innovation Promotion Fund", "SKOLKOVO", the "NTI Platform", the "Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programs" and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University), became a partner university.