During the "Regional National Technology Initiative (NTI) Policy" strategic session held at Technopark in Akademgorodok, a list of research topics were identified that NSU students can pursue as part of a technology entrepreneurship development program.
Innovative businesses look forward to the participation of students in the creation of an alloy with the shape memory necessary for the manufacture of an aortic heart valve prostheses, the development of a software platform for analyzing biomedical data, and a mathematical model that can analyze the large amount of data needed to solve urgent problems. Among other perspective topics discussed at the “foresight” session was genetic diagnosis using microchips.
These areas of research were identified with the participation of experts from Technopark, Novosibirsk State University and SB RAS institutes. Undergraduates and postgraduates who successfully defend theses in these spheres can apply for work in corporate R & D departments or continue their careers in laboratories at scientific institutes.
Levan Tatunashvili, Advisor to the NSU Rector for the Transfer of Technology and Communications and Deputy General Director of the Academpark for Innovation explained, ”
We assume that students from different departments can work on a single topic. In addition, we agreed with the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the St. Petersburg University of Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics that we will share information on our topics."
The Open Government started the initiative to develop technology entrepreneurship in institutions of higher education at the Federal level. Among the pilot universities are NSU, Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics in St. Petersburg, Moscow Physics-Technical University, Moscow State University, and a consortium of Tomsk universities. On August 7, an agreement was signed to establish a consortium, "Startup-Biotech," that will develop technology entrepreneurship in the life sciences field. In the future, a site will be created that will help NSU undergraduates and graduate students, who have successful defensed on topics of interest to high-tech business, get their work into production.
NTI is an interdepartmental program in a public-private partnership that is dedicated to developing promising new markets based on high-tech solutions that will impact developments in the world and the Russian economy in 15-20 years. Since 2016, NSU has been preparing high-tech projects in various spheres for the NTI competition. At that time, Novosibirsk State University was included in the list of “University for NTI” winners.
