OREANDA-NEWS. December 01, 2014. Bauman Moscow State Technical University hosted a conference on “Learning entrepreneurship: the integration of higher education institutions into an innovative economy”, which was organized by the Center for Entrepreneurship. Deloitte CIS acted as a moderator of one of the plenary discussions, which brought together speakers Grigory Bakunov (Director of Yandex Technologies Distribution), Vitaly Vinogradov (CEO of Ticketland.ru) and Vyacheslav Nesterov (General Director of EMC St. Petersburg Center of Excellence).

Deloitte also announced the results of its Innovation award, which is aimed at encouraging the success of companies that have implemented innovations to drive their business.  

Numerous companies took part in the competition, each of which had to comply with the following requirements:

creating or applying innovations in their business (possible areas being technology, business processes or marketing);

operating in the Russian Federation;

having an average of not more than 1,000 employees in 2013;

having revenue of not less than RUB 15 million in 2013.

From 10 finalists, Deloitte along with the Center for Entrepreneurship chose the winner of the innovation competition. The company Personalnoye Resheniye from St. Petersburg was selected and received a certificate for a number of free professional consulting services hours from Deloitte.

“Such events promote development and increase motivation; this means social recognition of your success.  For an entrepreneur, this means energy, attention and, consequently, new valuable contacts. We won because we think with our heads when we work, and this is evident to everyone around us,” said Denis Reshanov, the head of Personalnoye Resheniye.

“I am sure that, for us, the Innovation award will become a positive tradition for us. Russia is going through significant transformations in the field of innovations; there are many young talented entrepreneurs. All-round support is vitally important at early stages of their business to be successful,” said Vladimir Kozyrev, Deloitte partner and moderator of the plenary discussion.

Other speakers at the conference included representatives of leading higher educational institutions of Moscow, St. Petersburg and other regions, Russian ministries and government agencies, and also foreign experts in teaching entrepreneurship.