TOMSK, Jun 21 – RIA Tomsk. Undergraduates of department of engineering business of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) have for the first time defended the final thesis in the form of startups, having presented really working business to the commission, the press service of the university reports on Wednesday.
It is specified that the master program "Business in Innovative Activity" is constructed in TPU in such a way that undergraduates generate the idea of the innovative enterprise project in the first semester, and then work through its components. As a result the most active and interested students receive the working business, potential partners and investors who are also found during study.
"Two master dissertations in the form of startups were defended. The topic of one of them is "Introduction of the innovative project "Club of Virtual Reality" in the market of the city of Tomsk". The second one is "Innovative ways of advance of construction goods on the example of LLC Center of Decorative Coverings, – the head of the department of engineering business Stepan Hachin is quoted in the message.
It is noted that the projects were estimated by the invited experts in the sphere of business and heads of structures of support of the innovative companies who unanimously estimated the projects with excellent grade. High level of their conversion became one of indicators of success of the projects – it is number of using the advertising link to the website of the company. Their level was approximately five times higher, than average on the market.It is added that the idea of creation of startups by graduates of universities as theses is actively discussed in the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. Similar practice can be introduced in 2019. Creation of venture funds with participation of universities, their graduates and the partner companies for the help to student's startups is in plans. TPU is one of the first in Russia which checked the idea in practice.