Turn your idea into a business

Among the readers of Habrahabr there are many talented and creative people - entrepreneurs, scientists, specialists and just enthusiasts. Many have great ideas and projects. In this blog, we want to talk about the Innovation and High-Tech Project Competition “Technovations Cup” , which is being held for the sixth time by Fiztech .

The Technology Innovation Cup helps project teams find funding to turn their ideas into a working business. To participate, simply fill out an application on the competition website.
Experts in the field of science and business will analyze all submitted projects and select some of the best in the fields of hi-tech and IT. The finalist teams will be able to present their project to investors, receive valuable advice from experts, and also win a cash prize in the amount of 50,000 to 100,000 rubles. The competition is sponsored by the Russian Venture Company and the State Corporation Rosnanotekh .

The technological idea is the main criterion for evaluating projects that are considered by the Cup jury chairman Ivan Mikhailovich Bortnik and other members of the board - leading managers and entrepreneurs in the field of innovation and technology business, for example, David Yang . In the final of the competition, which will be held at the end of November in Moscow, the winners will be determined in two nominations: “The best technical innovation” and “The best IT innovation”.

The partners of the Technovations Cup offer various additional features to the finalists: from the short-term educational programs of the Skolkovo business school to the free Microsoft software.
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Project acceptance will end on October 20, 2010. You can learn more about the Technology Innovation Cup and apply for participation on the website technocup.ru .

In this blog, we will talk about interesting projects that participated in the competition, or rather about people - teams of beginners and experienced entrepreneurs who create them. What problems they encountered, how they were solved and what they expect from the future. We hope you find it interesting and useful.

We invite participants of the competition and all those who are not indifferent to the problems of technological entrepreneurship to join our groups on Vkontakte , Facebook , Learn , and also to subscribe to Twitter , where news and links to interesting discussions will be published.