Education for high-tech industries

Abstract

The experience of the Fund for Infrastructure and EducationalPrograms suggests that high-tech businesses face a shortage ofqualified specialists when developing and launching a new innovative product as well as when promoting innovative products.Identifying the current staffing needs of manufacturing companies and helping to develop educational programs is the mostimportant area of cooperation between the Fund and innovative business. Russian universities and research institutes wheresuch programs are developed and implemented are actively involved in their design. Over the ten years more than 200 educational programs have been implemented, 94,000 specialists and have been trained. About 200 companies from 40 Russian regions initiated the development of programs. During this time, more than 75 universities and research organizations have become partners of the Fund. Representatives of some of them talk about the experience of joint design and implementation of educational programs for innovative production that helps to update and develop the main educational programs of universities