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Source: State University Higher School of Economics – State University Higher School of Economics –
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Anastas Karagadayev, graduate Institute for Statistical Research and Economics of Knowledge HSE, achieved high results in his career path while still a student. At that time, he took an active part in the activities Science and Technology Research Laboratories ISSEK and founded his own startup, and is currently working on developing projects within the framework of the Russian-Chinese Center for Innovation Cooperation in Nanjing.
Anastas Karagadayev told the news service “HSE.Glavnoe” about his current and past projects, his studies at HSE, and also gave advice to all students of the university.
About working at the Center for Innovative Cooperation
— Our center is engaged in supporting joint projects of Russia and China. We work with business organizations, startups, as well as with scientific and educational projects, universities. We work with Chinese organizations at their request, if something needs to be done in Russia, for example, to find a partner or develop a project, as well as with Russian organizations in China. About the latest projects, I can say that we helped several Russian startups enter the Chinese market, actively help young entrepreneurs from Russia develop their projects in China and work with Russian universities, for example, with MISiS.
I am learning Chinese, it turned out to be much more difficult than I thought, and so far there is progress, but not so much that I can speak Chinese fluently. I am very happy with the development of my career, my choice. There are also many difficulties. For example, there is a cultural barrier. We are different nations, we have our own cultural concepts, a language barrier and many other things, traditions that are difficult for us to understand right away due to differences in mentality.
About Vyshka
— I apply almost all of my university knowledge in my work one way or another. I found the educational materials, the projects we carried out, and the experience of intercultural communication very useful. In this regard, HSE gave me a lot. My program was entirely in English, with a more international focus. They taught innovation management and policy in this area, how to organize work with innovations, science, and technology in a particular country. I liked my program, the materials, the teachers, everything turned out to be very relevant.
About work in the Laboratory of Science and Technology Research of ISSEK
— Since my program included extensive research activities, at some point I became very interested in it all, especially my master’s thesis, I put a lot of effort into it. In parallel with my studies, I started working at the department, there was a task related to artificial intelligence, it was necessary to develop a classification of technologies. We had the widest possible circle of partners. It was interesting, we achieved certain successes.
About Tertiarm startup
— The startup was in the field of robotics, it was an educational robot — so that schoolchildren could build their own robot in class or in extracurricular activities, program it and thereby learn robotics, engineering. This idea was born from my own hobbies: even as a child I liked robotics, I participated in various Olympiads, competitions, built something myself. And then I lacked exactly this kind of product, this kind of robot.
Several of my classmates and I had the same line of thought, they were also interested in children’s robotics. And we decided to try our hand at developing this idea within the framework of such a startup project. I helped define the vision of the project, develop it, received grants, applied to accelerators, and two of my friends were engaged in the technical part and the educational program. For three years, we have been actively developing the project in Russia: we have several prototypes of the robot itself, and we have released an online course. At the moment, the project is frozen, the course can still be found on the Internet, about 1,300 people are taking it online, but the robot itself and further development of the project are on hold.
Advice to HSE students
— Participate in activities as often as possible and meet as many different people as possible, be interested in them and what they do, not immediately with some goal, but simply to make new friends, acquaintances. This opened up many opportunities for me.
About plans for the future
— For now, I will continue to develop in the current vector, because I see a great need for organizations that support businesses in Russia and China. Organizations of these two countries interact a lot, but it often happens that some kind of push is needed for this, or help, or just some kind of constant support. Russia and China, it seems to me, can interact very well. They are already actively doing this, but in the future they can only build up and strengthen our friendship and mutually beneficial partnership.
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