Yesterday, the Bauman Moscow State Technical University – one of the top Russian universities – announced the creation of a “Center of Innovative Entrepreneurship.”
The initiative is intended to form a national platform for the exchange of knowledge and experience between technological entrepreneurs, engineers and students, by facilitating practical research and project development in high-tech fields.
Successful entrepreneurs occupying key positions in Russia’s innovation ecosystem, international experts, banks, leasing and franchising companies, and venture funds will participate in the educational process along with university professors. The process will start at the beginning of the new academic year.
The Center is headed by Sergey Borisov, a Sberbank VP and Deputy Chairman of the government commission on SMBs. It is being supported by Sferiq, an internationally oriented, Moscow-based investment company with strong activities in the field of e-commerce through its division IQ One.
Sferiq’s founder, Ulvi Kasimov, the number 7 Russian VC according to Forbes Russia, is himself a graduate of the Bauman University.
Illustrating the Center’s global perspective, prominent French scientist Henri Chenot was honored as a guest of the event. A recognized expert in the field of advanced health science and alternative medicine, Chenot is an honorary Doctor of Humanities at Kensington University and the founder of a network of advanced medical centers.
Chenot will offer a lecture on “biontology,” a new frontier in health sciences, which is linked to the idea of aging being a result of psycho-physical changes in the condition of a person.
