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A large-scale project Russian Startup Tour enters its homestretch. Experts have traveled more than 10 thousand kilometers, visited 16 cities and reviewed more than 200 innovative projects, and today they announced the results of the event.
Pekka Viljakainen, adviser to the president of Skolkovo Foundation, admitted that in the beginning Russian Startup Tour was met with a certain share of skepticism – the expert was sure there would be no necessary conditions for startup events in cities. And today, thanks to the received output, the expert sees the event in a more positive light:
“It is important to mark that in Russia people are used to complaining that nothing is happening. But in fact such situation existed 5 years ago, and everything has greatly changed. And most importantly, attitudes have changed. As to our tour, great interest was expressed towards it – for example, we have given about 140 interviews. My attitude is positive in comparison to when we were starting all this.”
Event organizers note positive changes in regions already at this stage. “You can’t say that innovations are evenly distributed all over the country, there are certain growth points. Not all regions are actively involved in our innovative activity today. After the startup tour we receive 2-3 good projects per week from the regions where we hadn’t previously received anything from”, marked investment manager of direct investment fund JSC “RVK” Mikhail Kharuzin.
Russian Startup Tour had one format in all cities, including Kaliningrad. Here presentations of innovative projects took place, as well as master classes on how to correctly promote your project and receive financing for its development.
“We simply work with projects, show how we evaluate, what we want to see and the innovator clearly understands where he should be heading, learns about certain aspects that must be presented in a project. Receiving feedback is very important for them, i.e. telling them on time “No, it’s not the right direction” or “Yes, that’s the thing, but watch out for competition””, told us Mikhail Kharuzin.
At the moment Kaliningrad does not have anything to boast about – according to the data of the manager of “Zvorykin Project” of the Federal Agency on Youth Issues, Sergey Blintsov, each year there are about 10 projects from Kaliningrad participating in the event on innovative projects, but up till now none has won the competition. But notwithstanding this, Kaliningrad region has high potential in IT sphere – this was marked by both Russian Startup Tour and representatives of business community all over Russia.
Russian Startup Tour is one of the events designed to popularize entrepreneurship and work in technology spheres. The project started on March 18 in Naberezhnye Chelny. 16 cities participated in the project: Naberezhnye Chelny, Ufa, Tyumen, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Belgorod, Kaliningrad, Rostov-on-Don, Astrakhan, Samara, Vladivostok, Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk, Nizhny Novgorod and Kaluga.
In Kaliningrad this is the second largest project dedicated to startup companies. Recently Hackday #24 took place where during 48 hours Kaliningrad startup entrepreneurs worked on their projects, communicated with mentors and defended their ideas in front of expert jury board.
Source: yaostrov.ru