Innovative technological entrepreneurship is a creative and constructive activity for the benefit of others.

Real innovative technological products can only be developed in close contact with potential clients whose real problems or challenges the product can solve.

Market pull (when an innovative product idea is born in response to a client request) and technology push (when an innovative idea is presented to a potential client to determine demand) approaches to creating innovative solutions can be used equally in project activities. The problem underlying the project should reflect real human needs, and its solution should be aimed at improving the world around us.

Creating an innovative technological product should be the goal of the project activity. To create such a product, the following are required:

• high-quality scientific research providing new (innovative) knowledge;
• a model/prototype that has been technologically tested and validated;
• research into the market demand of the target audience and their experience using the model/prototype product.

Our mission is to develop technological entrepreneurship competencies in school team mentors and students by solving real-world problems presented by the market or identified through human interaction with society and the environment. We implement this mission by drawing on the practical and business experience of the vast MIPT ecosystem and our partners.

We help establish partnerships between student teams and representatives of the real economy to test solutions, provide methodological assistance, and provide financial support.

The Start to Innovate ecosystem supports school teams that:

• are ready to collaborate with other teams and adult mentors, trackers, and experts. We don't grade projects; we create an environment for the development of ideas and teams;
• support partnerships within the team and ecosystem: the ability to clarify and accommodate each other's interests is the key to success;
• are focused on creating a real product for people, which means conducting research into the needs of the target audience and the relevance of their project solution;
• work in a team, distributing roles and responsibilities within the children and adults' collective, which is focused on creating a sought-after product;
• apply innovative solutions to project activities, meaning the project is backed not only by marketing but also by innovative scientific research, which has given the team an idea for a new, more effective response to the target audience's needs.
• create a technologically advanced product, meaning the team has not just an idea but also a proven technology for translating it into a tangible product;
• They test their solution on the target audience and refine it both at the initial hypothesis stage and at the stage of creating a model of the future product and MVP.