From Startup to Industrial Enterprise: Joint Activities of Universities and Industrial Partners

The issues of the relationship between high-tech industrial partners and universities of Tomsk for the training of indemand specialists are considered on the example of the pilot educational program «Cyberphysical systems, applied electronics and quantum technologies» developed by lecturers of the Radiophysics Faculty of Tomsk State University. It is noted that one of the ways to improve the well-being of the Tomsk citizens may be the creation of new high-tech enterprises, using the natural migration influx of young people, students at universities, and the existing ecosystem of scientific organizations, high-tech enterprises and startups in the city. Student startups not only shape the entrepreneurial thinking of young people, but also provide a breeding ground for the potential emergence of new high-tech industries. A concept for the development of a high-tech ecosystem based on the Lavrentiev triangle, but with the addition of a business component, depicted as a tetrahedron, is proposed. The difficulties of existing industrial enterprises in creating fundamentally new products and the tendency of gradual improvement of already created products are pointed out. The necessity of overcoming certification barriers in order to bring solutions to the market that improve the products of high-tech enterprises, for example, through state financing/co-financing of certification, is substantiated. It is proposed to create new high-tech enterprises with a payback horizon of more than 10 years to bring new high-tech products to promising emerging markets with the help of government financing. These issues were the subject of discussion at thematic round tables held within the framework of the International conference on «Materials and technologies of photonics, electronics and nonlinear optics» (MTP 2024). The authors thank Boris N. Poizner, Ruslan M. Gadyrov, Nikolay N. Yudin, Igor V. Klepikov, Alexey B. Lysenko for participating in the discussion of this article. The authors declare no conflicts of interests.

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