Ceremonial opening of the ZNTU Business Incubator

On Thursday, October 11, 2018, the «Business Incubator of ZNTU» was solemnly opened in the premises of the 4th building of ZNTU.

The opening was attended by ZNTU students of various specialties, co-founders and guests of ZNTU:

The first deputy head of the regional state administration is Ella Valeriivna Slepyan.

Director of the Department of Economic Development and Trade of the Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration – Matvyishina Oksana Evgeniivna.

The head of the department of organizational support for the activity of the executive apparatus of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Council is Ostapenko Anatoliy Viktorovych.

General Director of the State Organization «Regional Entrepreneurship Support Fund in Zaporizhzhia Region» – Volodymyr Vasyliovych Stepanenko.

Rector of Zaporizhzhia National Technical University – prof. Serhii Borisovych Belikov.

Director of the Zaporizhzhia National Technical University Business Incubator, prof. Pulina Tetyana Veniaminivna.

Deputy Director of the «Business Incubator of the Zaporizhzhia National Technical University» – Assoc. Shylo Halyna Mykolaivna.

A business incubator is an organization created to support entrepreneurs at an early stage of their activity by providing consulting, accounting and legal services.

The need to create our business incubator was confirmed by the results of the student survey. 73% of respondents are going to open their own business, and the level of practical skills is only 21%. In addition, there is a special interest in conducting trainings with representatives of local businesses and authorities (61% of respondents).

ZNTU business incubator was created on the initiative of the head. Department of Management Prof. Pulinoi T.B. on the basis of the department of management and the department of information technologies of electronic means, together with the Department of Economic Development and Trade of the Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration, the Regional Fund for the Support of Entrepreneurship in the Zaporizhzhia Region and with the support of the Zaporizhzhia Chamber of Commerce and Industry within the framework of the implementation of the Comprehensive Program for the Development of Small and Medium Enterprises in the Zaporizhzhia Region for 2018-2019.

The main feature of our business incubator is business projects in the field of IT technologies. Significant interest in these projects was confirmed by the IT forum held at the «Kozak-Palace» shopping center on September 28, 2018, which was attended by 12,000 visitors during the day. Therefore, our business incubator consists of two parts: an academic computer class and a production IT laboratory.

The goal of our business incubator is to create a platform where budding entrepreneurs, primarily students of ZNTU, can gain practical skills, experience and additional knowledge.