HSE at a glance
    National Research University - Higher School of Economics              Est.
                                                                           Est.
                                                                          1992
                                                                          1992
    • The World’s Top-500 universities
                                               Webometrics
    • The Russian Top-4 universities
    • 4 locations in Russia (Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm)
    • 31 faculties and schools; 3’100+ staff (faculty and research fellows)
    • 16000+ students (Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral students) 
    • Continuing education: 200+ programmes, 12’000 postgraduate students
    • Research: 41 research centers, 13 international labs, 300+ projects a year
    • Budget: € 270M, incl. €160M of revenues from education and research activities
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              HSE business innovation perspectives
  Research                 Marketable products             Prospective 
  areas                    and services (samples)          markets
  •  Economics             •  New financial facilities    Financial services
  •  Sociology             •  Customized analytics        R&D management
  •  Management            •  Customer behavior           Marketing
                              models
  •  Finance                                              Corporate governance
                           •  Business intelligence 
  •  Linguistics              tools and services          Insurance
  •  Communications        •  Games and simulators        Retail
  •  Logistics             •  Test systems and            Healthcare
                              visualization tools        
  •  Computer sciences                                      Creative industries
                           •  Supply chain 
  •  Cognitive sciences       management  solutions       Education
  •  etc.                  •  etc.                        etc.
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                 IID Program: major accomplishments
                 HSE Commercialization System
     Within university’s structure:
       Innovation and Enterprise            HSE Innovation            Investors and 
       Office (INEO)                              Ltd.                Corporate 
                                                                      partners
              Intellectual property 
              department                                                  Customers and 
                                                                          markets
              HSE Innovation Fund               Commercial services / 
                                                products                     State-owned 
                                                                             enterprises
              Faculty and students 
               Faculty and students 
               Faculty and students             Joint projects 
              involvement projects
               involvement projects                                          Large companies 
               involvement projects             and ventures
                                                                             and institutions
               Centers for 
              CeCenntetersr sf orfor   
               entrepreneurship and
               entrepreneurship and
               Business-incubators
              entrepreneurship and
               Business-incubators              Spin-off                     Venture 
              business-incubators               companies
                                                                             Capitalists
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                IID Program: major accomplishments
                HSE Commercialization Process
          HSE        IPR licensing             HSE Innovation 
                                                     Ltd.
                                                                        Investors and 
     Product                                                              corporate 
                 IP-assets    Faculty                                     partners
  development                member
     projects
     Developers,               PROJECT            Innovative                   Customers 
     Researchers                TEAM             Projects and                 and markets
                                                  Companies
              Tracks for involvement of entrepreneurs and team members
     Innovation Fund        Project & training       Incubators        Entrepreneurship 
     Innovation Fund        Project & training       Incubators        Entrepreneurship 
         applicants          groups leaders           residents            community
         applicants          groups leaders           residents            community
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                    Projects selection: 
                    HSE Innovation Fund track
  1.                  2.                     3.                    4.                       5.
  Call for ideas Financial &               Assessment /           Project structuring /Agre      ements and 
                     marketing plan investment                    fund raising             project launch
  Innovation Fund                          proposal
                                                                          <8                      <5
                           <15                    <15                                           Selected 
                                                                        Negotiations,           projects
   >50                                                                  Preliminary 
                          Selected                Assessment            agreements
                                                  results and                                  Product 
                          call winners                                                         development 
                                                  draft proposal
                                                                                               contract  /
  Applications:                                                                                License 
                                                                                               agreement
                           Contract for                                                        +
  Project leader +         project                                                             HSE involvement 
  Faculty member           planning                                                            scheme
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