TOMSK, Apr 4 – RIA Tomsk. The head of the International Scientific Council of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU), the Nobel laureate Dan Shechtman will give an open lecture about successful and unsuccessful stories of engineering startups in the university, the press service of the regional administration reports on Wednesday.
"Dan Shechtman will acquaint listeners with successful and, on the contrary, unsuccessful examples of commercialization of developments in universities. The lecture is dated for start of the course "Entrepreneurship" in TPU. This course is developed for development in among students-polytechnics of "soft skills" <…> necessary for increase in their competitiveness in labor market and increases in market orientation during creation of projects", – it is said in the statement.
It is noted that the course will become obligatory for students of Polytechnic University from this year. The pilot course for students of School of Computer Science & Robotics of TPU will be started in this semester.
It is added that Dan Shechtman is professor of the Israel Institute of Technology Technion. He teaches technological business of engineers and scientists worldwide more than a quarter of the century. He got the Nobel Prize for opening of quasicrystals in 2011. Dan Shechtman heads the International Scientific Council in Tomsk Polytechnic University.
The open lecture will be held in English, it will take place on April 6 in 234 audiences of the TPU main building. The beginning – 10.25. Preliminary registration is necessary.