Entrepreneurial infrastructure
Today, the entrepreneurial infrastructure of TUSUR University offers every tool and opportunity necessary for students to try their hand at business. The University has created essential structures of the infrastructure – the Student Business Incubator, R&D Commercialization Office, Investment Fund, Technology Transfer Center, Technology Business Incubator – to ensure a full cycle of innovative company creation, from idea to international launch of the product.
The elements of the TUSUR University entrepreneurial infrastructure are:
- Institute of Innovation, training professionals in innovative business management;
- Student Business Incubator, where students have an opportunity to build teams for specific projects, undergo seminars and trainings, and graduate as owners of private science-intensive companies. In 2015 the total turnover of 70 start-ups that came out of this incubator amounted to USD 6.6 mil.;
- Investment Fund, supporting student projects with grants allocated on a competitive basis;
- R&D Commercialization Office, assisting students and faculty in searching for suitable markets to sell R&D results;
- Technology Business Incubator, primarily focusing on world-level research and development and small-series production of hi-tech products;
- International Center for IT Training, offering short-term IT training courses with international certificates;
- Intellectual property protection office, facilitating patenting and licensing of R&D results;
- UNIQ – a network of high-tech companies that order R&D from the University and create specialized departments and research laboratories, while sharing their industrial knowledge and expertise through teaching and supervision of student research.