Pre-acceleration program for “UMNIKS” are held in the Technopark “Idea”

The pre-acceleration program for the winners of the project “UMNIK” has started in the Technopark “Idea”.

Experts tell young innovators about the strategies and the process of technology commercialization, about the peculiarities of conducting innovative business, business design, etc.

On November 15, 2018 General Director of Agency “Artpatent” Grigory Busarev told the beginning entrepreneurs about the rules for obtaining a patent, the terms of its validity and other features. The expert explained the basics of the legal protection of intellectual property, and also presented the advantages of the patent.

Note that the pre-acceleration program consists of 50 academic hours and is divided into 4 blocks:

• online training of participants, consisting of a series of workshops on the basics of commercialization of innovations;
• consideration of cases of successful foreign and Russian innovation projects;
• organization of individual consultations with experts;
• development of options for the business model of the project, consulting services in the preparation of a business plan.

At the next meeting, the winners of the program “UMNIK” will be told about the assessment of the value of intellectual property. The meeting will be held by Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor of Kazan Federal (Volga region) University, teacher of the Higher School of Business of KFU, Chairman of the Society of Appraisers of Tatarstan Dmitry Zakhmatov.

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The program “UMNIK” is aimed at supporting commercially oriented scientific and technical projects of young researchers. The participants of the competition are residents of Russia from 18 to 30 years old, winning the competition, receive a grant in the amount of 500 thousand rubles.