Why Do Adults Go for Master’s Degrees?

How and whom to teach technology entrepreneurship? How to
organize such training in universities? Is it possible to teach remotely? Why are more and more adults going to study technology entrepreneurship? The author answers to these questions, relying on the experience of the Department of Technological Entrepreneurship at MIPT — RUSNANO, where more than 130 students
have been trained since 2011, including format of an online master’s degree. The format of online master’s degree was implemented by the department long before the spread of COVID-19, in 2017.

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