 The university holds an annual international forum where its partners and business stakeholders discuss issues in technology transfer and development of innovations ecosystem.Other events are festival of social entrepreneurship, a competition of socially valuable projects “People need you!”, and a business game “Innovations marketing”».ITMO University is developing a network of startup accelerators in Russia’s regions as part of the program for development of research and entrepreneurship potential of Russian universities “EURECA” and in partnership with the U.S. Russia Foundation and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).