Advisor to the President of Skolkovo to hold a workshop for start-ups

The advisor to the President of the Fund Skolkovo Pekka Viljakainen will conduct a master class on How to commercialize innovative projects within the V St. Petersburg International Innovation Forum on September, 27.

The master class will be interesting to managers and employees of startups at pre-seed stages, portfolio companies, residents and development institutions, graduate students of technological and economic institutions.

Business start-ups, based on an innovative idea, face the main challenge - the commercialization of their project. Viljakainen with more than 20 years of experience as an ambassador between big business leaders and technology teams will tell how Skolkovo can help start-up companies in commercialization of their projects, about the program for the development of the Skolkovo residents Accelerator Program which is planned for launching in the near future and other upcoming events.

The working language is English. The venue is RVC Lecture hall, exhibition area of the pavilion № 7 Lenexpo (Bolshoy Av. 103). The organizers of the master class are the Skolkovo Fund, JSC RVC, St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics.