Entrepreneurship Laboratory: Students and schoolchildren were told how to turn an idea into a business

On the Entrepreneurship Day of the National Achievements Forum, the pavilion of the State Development Corporation VEB.RF at the RUSSIA EXPO became a real entrepreneurship laboratory. Thematic business games and trainings for schoolchildren and students were organized by SME Corporation (part of the VEB.RF coordination perimeter).

With the help of the game "Homework for a Million" schoolchildren learned how to open their own business without investments and start earning money from their favorite activities. The kids learned how to search for an original idea to earn money, determine its potential, and think about profit-making opportunities. The participants also reflected on who is an entrepreneur, what traits are needed to successfully open and run their own business, and whether every business requires start-up investments.

Older children, students of colleges and universities, played the business game "Life as an Investment Project. How to Become What You Want?". They learned how to start investing in their dreams, how much time it will take to fulfill them and discussed the main steps on the way to achieving them. The format of the business game allowed students to consider life scenarios on particular stories and cases, to work out the possibilities of self-realization, including in the business environment.

The Entrepreneurship Day in Pavilion No. 59 "Cities for Life Come True" was concluded with a lecture by Ekaterina Savina, a sociologist of the Polytechnic Museum. Using the example of large businesses and leading sociological institutes, the lecturer spoke about analytical and business effects, marketing research, and the role of social networks in analyzing public opinion and consumer behavior.