The workshop “Management of innovative projects, developments, research” was held on November 26 in Kirov, in the “My business” center and was devoted to current issues of organization and development of technological, innovative business and analysis of the main goals to be solved by an innovative entrepreneur.

At the workshop, skilled practitioners helped aspiring entrepreneurs understand how to evaluate a technological idea, assess the company’s innovative potential, create a project team that is capable to turn the idea into a competitive innovative product, and showed the approach to innovative entrepreneurship and the peculiarities of the innovation ecosystem based on specific examples from international and Russian business practices.

Sergey Tolstobrov: “Today I shared my experience not only as the Director of the Department of Economic Territory Development at NANOLEK biopharmaceutical complex that produces innovative drugs, but also as a representative of the Foundation for Assistance to Small Enterprises in Science and Technology (FASIE) in the Kirov region.

Participants of the workshop could receive information about available resources and financial support for innovative projects in the region. Besides, we analyzed together typical mistakes when launching an innovative project, discussed how to turn a scientific idea into a profitable project, how to look for a team, partners and investors, and how to attract state support.

Such events help create as many investment-worthy startups in the region as possible, which, in turn, positively influences the economy of the Kirov region”.

The event was supported by the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, the Government of the Kirov region and the Ministry of Economic Development and Support for Entrepreneurship of the Kirov region as part of the National project “Small and medium-sized businesses and support for individual business initiatives”.