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One way that corporations spur innovation is by working with startups—through mechanisms such as corporate accelerators, venture builders and venture clients. To discover the challenges that arise in these initiatives, this research was conducted with more than 120 CINOs in 22 sectors.

The Jury of Startup Connect Contest selected the best projects for the final pitch session at  *Ship Startup Festival on August 1-2 in Kotka (Finland). The contest is organized by GoTech Innovation with Cursor Oy.

GoTech Innovation is often associated with the GoTech Arena, a large-scale forum that we have been holding since 2009. But, in addition to this event, our company is engaged in consulting and has many interesting cases for working with corporations. Irina Kalashnikova, co-founder and CEO of GoTech Innovation will describe in this article exactly how we help corporations and startups (and not only in the Russian market).

On June 10 we closed the applications for the Startup Connect contest that lasted more than two months. While startups-participants are waiting for the finalist’s announcement, we have prepared for you the statistics of all applications from the teams.

The submission period for the GoTech contest is now open. The first 2 nominations are announced: Arena Pitch and SKL Tech from the business incubator of the company SOKOLOV Jewelry. Acceptance of applications will last 4 months, during this time the organizers plan to launch at least 10 industry tracks and nominations within GoTech.

On May 23-24 the two-day final selection of startups in the accelerator of the Kirovsky Zavod for industrial startups took place. According to the results of the final, 8 best technology companies were selected to participate in the accelerator program.

We are now announcing 14 best projects selected by Startup Estonia experts to participate in the Go Estonia pitch session.

The Kotka Hamina Region Development Agency Cursor Oy (Finland) announced the launch of the Russian-Finnish Startup Connect Business Club (link to the news). Sergey Troshkov, coordinator of cross-border cooperation projects, talks about who the Business Club was created for and how it will work.

Rostelecom has set a special nomination for the GoTech contest. Startups, which have the best solutions in Rostelecom strategic areas, will be able to launch a pilot project with the largest digital services provider in Russia.

On May 29, the collection of applications for the Kaspersky Exploring Russia tourism accelerator was completed. Representatives of Kaspersky and leading experts in the tourism business closely reviewed all applications and selected 10 of the brightest and most interesting participants from 7 countries who will compete for the prizes.