Remarks and answers from questioners in the end of CTCO course.

Trainings wanted:

  • Negotiation skills. 3 times
  • The same CTCO in a new level. 3 times
  • Marketing. 2 times
  • Software
  • International patenting
  • English
  • Business plans
  • Economical, legislative
  • Forming infrastructure of TC
  • Financial analysis of innovative project
  • Technology transfer
  • Innovative project

When the practical results will be obtained?

  • There are already. 4 times
  • During month
  • This year. 2 times
  • In one year
  • When the state starts financing in enough volume
  • With reorganization of patent departments in NASU
  • After understanding the necessity of work on commercialization by institutes
  • After development of infrastructure of TC
  • When there is the stability in the state
  • After elections
  • In case of interest in innovation projects and money
  • Not soon. 2 times

Comments and propositions of trainees:

To STCU

  • To provide the job description. To establish further collaboration between STCU and CTCO.
  • Make another schedule of trainings (longer and half of the day).
  • To continue with other institutes. To introduce yearly seminars of CTCO for changing experience.
  • To do periodically lectures and to make the auditory acquainted with modern methods.
  • High level of STCU programs is well-known.

About training course:

Positive

  • Comprehensive lectures, various topics.
  • Lectors have good methods of communications – with questions, games, discussions.
  • I though I’ll obtain nothing new, but that was not so.

Negative

  • The handouts need to be printed with bigger fonts.
  • To leave more time for some reports and further comments.
  • Not enough time for home tasks.
  • In role games there were not enough time for discussing the action of participants.
  • Misbalance between the theory and practice.
  • No illustrative material provided (Kozharskaja, Zhutniova –I’d appraise- 3 )
  • Unfortunately not all the lectures had level high enough. So, some information left unclear.The same concerns handouts.

The knowledge to provide:.

  • To provide materials concerning peculiarities of services as innovative products.
  • Not enough information (rather no information) about making business plans (2-d module).
  • Not enough recommendations about how to act in a present moment in Ukraine – the analysis of situation in Ukraine is advisable.
  • To explain more comprehensible economic material – it was in a comment after 1-st module and was not fulfilled.
  • There were no practical tasks on financial analysis of innovative project.
  • Not enough information about IPR protection.

How are you going to improve your knowledge?

  • To prepare own course of CTCO.
  • To read handouts and CD.
  • To study peculiarities of services as innovative products.
  • Holding technical audit, there is possibility to start working with venture foundation.
  • By literature -3 times
  • Internet. -2 times.
  • In a daily work, adaptation of knowledge to work - 2 times
  • Writing the job description, business plans, tech. audit.
  • Learning on one's own.
  • To learn on one's own what was not in the course, but is necessary.