Authors
Rozhdestvensky V.
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Degree
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PhD in Tecnique, National Research University Higher School of Economics |
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E-mail
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victor_nn@mail.ru |
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Location
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Nizhny Novgorod |
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Articles
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Innovation projects incubation and mentorship programThe Russian project has more difficulties with the search of a good mentor than investments.
There is a small quantity of successful entrepreneurs, who built their own business and are ready to
share their experience not only through the TV, but directly with a certain project team.
The article considers the foreign experience of mentor and project team cooperation, identifies the
main areas and features of this cooperation. A survey among the residents of the Nizhny Novgorod
Innovation Business Incubator revealed the pricipal characteristics of a mentor and criteria the mentor
has to match. The author developed an algorithm of forming a mentoring pool that includes five
main steps. The offered algorithm may have a positive impact on the innovation projects development
process and improve the innovation projects incubation process, solving following problems:
1. a lack of a necessary expertise of a project team.
2. а little experience of a project team in the sphere of promoting their own business and producing
goods and services.
3. a lack of necessary contacts for promoting the project.
4. a lack of necessary expertise of business incubator specialists.
The results of conducted research show the qualities the mentor has to have in order to work with
project teams. They are following:
• High education in economics or mechanics
• best practices in business
• age of 30 – 50 years old (the criteria is least of all and may not count at all in the case if other
criterion are matched)
• an ability to spend a lot of time with the team in the beginning of a cooperation and less time
during follow-up meetings.
• a skill to determine the main directions of company’s activity.
• an acting businessmen or a consultant with best practices of entrepreneurship.
• owning or the experience of owning mid-sized business.
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