The grand opening of the training program of the innovative business accelerator took place on September 12 on the roof of the Rubin coworking space.

The initiator and customer of the event for the second year in a row is the Department of Economics of the city of Rostov-on-Don, the executor is the autonomous non-profit organization of education and science «FIRON».

The innovative business accelerator program is free and includes training events, consulting services and assistance in attracting investments in the projects of Rostov innovators.

32 participants were selected to participate in the accelerator training program on a competitive basis. Among them are the founders of a digital platform for collaborative travel, developers of an emotional reaction analyzer for neuromarketing research, technologies for identifying the species of trees and shrubs, and many others.

Welcoming remarks were addressed to the participants: Deputy Head of the Rostov-on-Don City Administration for Economics Kambulova Svetlana, General Director of ANO «Agency for Innovations of the Rostov Region» Anna Pushhenko, General Director of the Rostov Municipal Fund for Entrepreneurship Support Blaginina Evgenia.

«Rostov is rich in intellectual resources, but sometimes lacks the skills and opportunities for commercialization. It is very important for us to create favorable conditions for startups at the local level,» — said Svetlana Kambulova.

Director of ANO FIRON Inna Shengof noted: «The peculiarity of the innovative business accelerator is the impossibility of passive participation, the program is built on learning through action. Our task is to maximize the resources of your project, work out a strategy and accompany at every stage.»

Shengof Inna became a public representative of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives in the Rostov Region in the direction of «Entrepreneurship and Technology» in 2020, as well as a regional representative of the Skolkovo Foundation, which opens up new opportunities for students of the innovative business accelerator to participate in federal programs and competitions.

According to the participants themselves, a business accelerator is new knowledge and opportunities for launching a project, attracting investment.

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Kozhevnikov, a student of the 2019 Innovative Business Accelerator program and an active resident of the Skolkovo Innovation Center, addressed the participants with parting words.

Success stories of innovative entrepreneurs are the result of complex support and assistance from various infrastructure facilities. For example, FIRON will help innovators to work out the project and package for the investor, the Innovation Agency of the Rostov Region will inform about new technology competitions, the Rostov Municipal Entrepreneurship Support Fund for the founders of technology projects will offer borrowed funds for the development of a startup on the most favorable terms with a simplified procedure.

A new workspace of the Rubin coworking space was also presented to the accelerator participants — the Roof was inaugurated, where the first lecture on introduction to technological entrepreneurship from the founder and founder of the Bastion production association Mikhail Yanovsky took place.