Competition between technological and social entrepreneurs took place at the RUSSIA EXPO

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A case-battle "The Course to Modernization: Social Entrepreneurship and Technological Entrepreneurship" was held in the Home of Youth on the platform of social initiatives #BusinessWeAreTogether from Rosmolodezh.Business. Representatives of the two directions tried to convey to experts and spectators why their direction is stronger and more promising, and at the end of each "round" spectators and participants of the battle heard what the jury thought about it.

"Technologists" were represented by the founder of the federal network Hydroservice LLC Igor Sukhov; an expert on venture capital investment, startups and the Latin American market, co-founder of the IT-company 2A Andrei Kochkin; and the CEO of Avibiru LLC Ivan Shumilov; while the "socials" were represented by an individual entrepreneur, owner of furniture salon VALERIE, development director of design bureau K-Project Valeria Kotova; co-founder of the project Processing Workshop Alexei Kokovkin; and co-founder and development director of the company CCOVER Dmitry Skornyakov.

The participants of the battle talked about how their business is organized, shared their experience of success, discussed the prospects of promotion and ways of interaction with the "opposite" direction of entrepreneurship.

The effectiveness of the "Technological Entrepreneurship" and "Social Entrepreneurship" teams in terms of benefit to society was assessed by Mikhail Slobodinsky, Managing Partner of the TenChat business social network; Anton Kukanov, Deputy Head of Roskachevo; Oleg Churilov, Director of the Department for the Development of Technological Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation; and Sergei Golubev, Director General of the Social Investment Fund, member of the Management Board and Chairman of the Commission for Social Entrepreneurship of the "Opora Russia".

Nikita Prokhorov, author of three best-selling books and owner of large businesses, was the host and chief "arbiter" of the event.

"I would say that the winner today is a citizen of the Russian Federation, who receives a fundamentally new quality of service from both social and technological points of view. Because by combining these two stories, new services and utilities emerge that significantly improve the quality of life," commented Sergei Golubev on the results of the business competition.

The experts unanimously agreed that both social and technological entrepreneurship are areas of equal priority, and in their development they should move "hand in hand".

"I sincerely believe that in the future these two directions, beautiful in themselves, in any case will be integrated, and in any case there will be various ways for their merger and symbiosis. Therefore, in a sense, today two teams have become one, and it is amazing," concluded Nikita Prokhorov.

The platform of social initiatives #BusinessWeAreTogether in the Home of Youth is organized by the Rosmolodezh.Business track within the framework of the forum of social entrepreneurship "More than Business". Representatives of city and federal agencies, small and medium-sized businesses, large companies, development institutions and non-profit organizations took part in the events at VDNH on June 27 and 28. There were open dialogues, presentations of the best cases in the field of social and technological entrepreneurship, technology Exposition and other events.

The Forum was organized by the Department of Entrepreneurship and Innovative Development of Moscow, the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation and the Social Projects Support Fund.