Infrastructure to support the innovative
and entrepreneurial projects
Case of the Higher School of Economics
Anastasiya Tyurina
Head of Business Incubator at HSE
CEO, HSE Innovation, LTD
September, 2012
Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 2011
www.hse.ru
HSE at a glance
National Research University - Higher School of Economics
Est.
1992
• The World’s Top-500 universities
• The Russian Top-4 universities
Webometrics
• 4 locations in Russia (Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm)
• 31 faculties and schools; 3’100+ staff (faculty and research fellows)
• 16000+ students (Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral students)
• Continuing education: 200+ programmes, 12’000 postgraduate students
• Research: 41 research centers, 13 international labs, 300+ projects a year
• Budget: € 270M, incl. €160M of revenues from education and research activities
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HSE business innovation perspectives
Research
areas
Marketable products
and services (samples)
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Economics
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New financial facilities
 Financial services
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Sociology
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Customized analytics
 R&D management
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Management
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 Marketing
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Customer behavior
models
Finance
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Linguistics
Business intelligence
tools and services
 Insurance
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Communications
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Games and simulators
 Retail
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Logistics
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 Healthcare
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Computer sciences
Test systems and
visualization tools
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Cognitive sciences
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etc.
Prospective
markets
 Corporate governance
 Creative industries
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Supply chain
management solutions
 Education
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etc.
 etc.
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IID Program: major accomplishments
HSE Commercialization System
Within university’s structure:
Innovation and Enterprise
Office (INEO)
HSE Innovation
Ltd.
Intellectual property
department
HSE Innovation Fund
Faculty
Faculty
and
students
Facultyand
andstudents
students
involvement
involvement
projects
involvementprojects
projects
Centers
for
Centers
Centersfor
for
entrepreneurship
and
entrepreneurship
and
Business-incubators
entrepreneurship
and
Business-incubators
business-incubators
Commercial
services / products
Investors and
Corporate
partners
Customers and
markets
State-owned
enterprises
Joint projects
and ventures
Large companies
and institutions
Spin-off
companies
Venture
Capitalists
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IID Program: major accomplishments
HSE Commercialization Process
HSE
IPR licensing
Product
IP-assets
development
projects
Developers,
Researchers
HSE Innovation
Ltd.
Investors and
corporate
partners
Faculty
member
PROJECT
TEAM
Innovative
Projects and
Companies
Customers
and markets
Tracks for involvement of entrepreneurs and team members
Innovation Fund
applicants
Project & training
groups leaders
Incubators
residents
Entrepreneurship
community
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Call for ideas
Innovation Fund
2.
3.
Financial &
marketing
plan
4.
Assessment /
investment
proposal
5.
Project
structuring /
fund raising
<8
<15
<15
>50
Selected
call winners
Applications:
Project leader +
Faculty member
Contract for
project
planning
Assessment
results and
draft proposal
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Projects selection:
HSE Innovation Fund track
Negotiations,
Preliminary
agreements
Agreements
and
project launch
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Selected
projects
Product
development
contract /
License
agreement
+
HSE involvement
scheme
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Samples of applicant projects
to the 2nd HSE Innovation Fund call
Product Idea
Target markets
Scientific leader
“Mobile-English” content delivery
system for mobile
devices
Foreign language
distance-learning and
interpreting
Prof. Svetlana Maltseva
Head of Department of Innovation
and Business in Information
Technologies
(Faculty of Business Analytics)
Hedging strategies
development
Financial services,
Risk-management,
Financial consulting
Prof. Nikolay Berzon
Head of Department of Stock and
Investments Market
(Faculty of Economics)
Interactive Atlas for
Tourism Industry
Customized Analytics
for Tourism industry
(B2B, B2C)
Prof. Sergey Smirnov
Deputy Vice-rector, Director of
Institute for Social Policies and
Social and Economic Programmes
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Entrepreneurship fostering system
Centers
for
Centers
for
Centers
for
entrepreneurship
entrepreneurship
and
entrepreneurship,
and
Business-incubators
Business-incubators
business-incubators
• Moscow
• Nizhny Novgorod
• Perm
• Saint-Petersburg
Centers
for
Innovation
Centers
for
entrepreneurship
entrepreneurship
and
Management
and
Business-incubators
Business-incubators
Chair
programs
Centers
for
Specific
trainings
Centers
for
entrepreneurship
entrepreneurship
and
by
various HSE
and
Business-incubators
Business-incubators
education
units
Promotion
Coaching
Selection
Prototyping
Education
30+ alumni startups
New paid service is being developed
HSE{Pro} Coaching program NEW
12 contracts for paid services
HSE{10K} business competition
Startup of the year – HSE Award
Internet-based services testing
Paid service is being developed
> 15 programs, 2 international
> 5000 participants a year
Networking
> 50 specific events, incl.
HSE{Sun} – Summer school
Community
>10000 members
>50 service partners
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Entrepreneurship fostering system
HSE{10K} business competition
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6 years history
140 applications in May 2011
80 experts jury
12 finalists
The Winner (Mobile DNA-diagnostics)
2nd prize at BIT-2011 (RU), 2nd prize at IBTEC-2011 (USA)
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- winner of BIT 2011 ($200K)
finalist of HSE{5K} in 2007
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Entrepreneurship fostering system
Annual award “Startup of the year”
Startup of the year
2011 Final Ceremony: December 8
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Since 2008
92 nominees by 40+ partner organizations
50 experts jury
13 finalists in 5 nominations
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Best Technology
Best Start
Global Startup
Best Social Business
Best Team
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Annual award “Startup of the year”
Infrastructural Partners (Nominators)
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Final remarks
Next challenge: interconnection of these systems
I.
University-business cooperation
II.
Commercialization system
III. Entrepreneurship fostering system
Key risks:
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Lack of time: complexity requires larger transition periods
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Misunderstanding of scale and ratio between systems
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Mistakes in making right offers
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atyurina@hse.ru
www.hse.ru