Philosophy

Innovative technological entrepreneurship is a creative activity aimed at producing benefits for the surrounding world and society.

Real innovative technological products can be created only in close contact with a potential customer whose real problems/challenges this product can solve.

Market Pull (when an innovative product idea is born in response to a customer request) and Technology Push (when one's innovative idea is presented to a potential customer to find out the demand) approaches to creating an innovative solution can be used in project activities equally. The problem that underlies the project should reflect the real demands of people, and its solution should be aimed at improving the world around them.

Creation of an innovative technological product should be the goal of the project activity. To create such a product, it is necessary to have:

• qualitative scientific research that gives new (innovative) knowledge;
• a model/prototype that has been approved and testedin terms of technology;
• market demand research of the target audience and their experience of using the product model/prototype.

Mission

Our mission is to build entrepreneurial competencies among school mentors and students through solving real problems offered by the market or identified as a result of human interaction with society and the environment.
We implement our mission by drawing on the practical and business experience of MIPT's large ecosystem and our partners.
We help establish partnerships between school teams and real-economy representatives to test solutions, methodological assistance and financial support.

Values

The Start to Innovate ecosystem supports school teams that:

• are ready to cooperate with other teams and our mentors, trackers and experts;
• are partnered with the team and ecosystem;
• are focused on creating a real product for people, which means researching the demand of the target audience and the relevance of their project solution;
• work in a team, distributing roles and responsibilities within the children and adult community;
• apply innovative solutions in project activities;
• create a technological product, i.e. the team has not just an idea, but also a tested technology for translating the idea into a real product;
• test on the target audience and improve their solution both at the stage of the first hypothesis and creating a model of the future product and mvp.