Winter School on Technology Entrepreneurship will show participants the way how to commercialize their ideas by guiding them through the processes of ideation, investigating the market, raising finance and presenting their ideas. Participants go through the full cycle of state of the art innovation methods (co-creation, design thinking, business modelling) to develop their innovations and inspire their entrepreneurial mindset. The international group of participants provide an inspirational atmosphere. In this course, students will consider entrepreneurship as a process of recognizing opportunities and creating value in conditions of limited resources. Special attention will be paid to testing a product idea on consumers.
Online lectures will be delivered synchronized as live talk with professors and groupmates. Records of classes will be available on SPbPU platform for 1 month after the course end.
Skills and competence to be acquired by students
- Creative thinking;
- Idea generation and selection;
- Investigating the market;
- Business modelling skills for high tech projects;
- Project team work and cross-cultural communication;
Participation fee includes tuition fee, study materials, field trips and cultural program.
Upon successful completion of the course students will receive hard copies of certificates with ECTS credits (mailed by post in case of the online format of the Winter School).
Accommodation
Provided only for the Tailor-made format:
on campus at the university dormitory
off-campus at partner hostels in the city center
Details of the options and booking procedures will be discussed with each applicant individually.
Deadline for registration: December 22, 2022
Entrance requirements
Good command of English. All classes and extracurricular activities are conducted in English. Knowledge of the Russian language is not required.
Course description
- Technology entrepreneurship (Oksana Evseeva, Associate Professor, PhD);
- Aspects of business planning and marketing in Russia (Alexei Trykov, Assistant Professor, PhD);
- Opportunities recognition (Vladimir Shchegolev, Associate Professor, Director of the Graduate School of Technology Entrepreneurship IAMT):
In this course, students will consider entrepreneurship as a process of recognizing opportunities and creating value in conditions of limited resources. Special attention will be paid to testing a product idea on consumers.