Four Days of Commercialization Skills Development for CTCO’s at School of Business MIM-Kyiv

29 May 2012 - 01 Jun 2012

In the framework of GlPP Chief Technology Commercialization Officer (CTCO) program STCU arranged 4 days training course on Commercialization Skills Development on May 29 - June 1, 2012. It was conducted by 4 specialists from the Business School MIM-Kyiv, a leading graduate business school located in the capital city of Ukraine. The goal of the courses for these CTCO candidates was to give them new business knowledge to become the central point within their institutes for beneficial commercial technology licensing and business development. GIPP CTCO program assists selected institutes in better achieving long-term self-sustainability through strategic planning and organizational improvements

The course program included the following topics:

Fundamental Concepts of Financial Statement Analysis & Managerial Accounting
Financial Statement Analysis & Financial Forecasting
Intangible Aspects of Developing & Growing your Business
Successful Business Proposal Writing
Introduction to New Product Development
Capital Budgeting, Forecasting, Corporate Finance & Valuation
Presentation Skills
Marketing & Sales for Growing Businesses
Venture Capital Opportunities, Challenges: When is it right?
Business Aspects of Intellectual Property

30 CTCOs, Directors, and Deputy Directors participated in the training from the following institutes:

Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology
Khartron Production Association, Kharkiv
Yuzhnoye State Design Office, Dnipropetrovsk
Lviv Institute of Epidemiology, Lviv
Mechnikov Anti-Plague Institute, Odesa
State Science-Control Institute of Biotechnology and Strains of Microorganisms, Kyiv
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Kyiv
Institute Epizootics at the Agriculture of the Western Polessia, Rivne
Galkin Institute of Physics and Technology, Donetsk
Institute of Physics, Kyiv
Institute of Radio-physics and Electronics, Kharkiv


Iryna Tykhomyrova, President of MIM-Kyiv and Victor Korsun, Deputy Executive Director (USA) from STCU presented Certificates of Completion to all participants during a ceremony and reception held at the end of the training.