Nazar Podolchak

Nazar Podolchak – Doctor of Economics, Professor. Founder and Director of the Business Innovation Centre Tech StartUp School, the Science Park SID City, and the StartEra University Crowdfunding Platform of Lviv Polytechnic National University. He has over 10 years of experience in startups, innovation, business, and science, as well as the creation and development of closed-loop innovation ecosystems. He is a member of the Advisory Board of EIT Ukraine and the Policy Making Board of EIT Food. Head and coordinator of over 20 international projects in the field of innovation, digitalisation, cross-border cooperation, and breakthrough technologies, an active participant in international consortia, network partners with over 200 partner universities, private and non-governmental organisations. Founder of several startups.