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Attracting Investments for the High Technology Sector


The course gives you the technical skills required to perform simple real options evaluation of investment opportunities under uncertainty, using examples such as investment in natural resources (oil wells and goldmines) and R&D projects, particularly in the biotech/pharmaceutical sector.

The course will also present a new way of thinking about designing contracts between partners in the presence of uncertainty, and those in the field of venture capital will be able to use the same skills when answering questions such as "which project?" and "how to finance this project?"

The course “Attracting Investments for the High Technology Sector” consists of a study book and computer multimedia program (CD-ROM) that can be used on the learner’s personal computer as well as on the automatic “DOTSENT” system for remote training, allowing entries to the training software to be made from any location that is equipped and which has access to computer networks. The course contains seven parts with interactive lectures and tests.


Content:
• Definitions and aims of investments
• Investment project comprehension
• Sources and forms of investments
• Capital investments
• Criteria and methods of valuing investment projects
• Project investment risks
• Business plan of the investment project


As a result a learner will:
• Distinguish investment from other forms of deposits, distinguish finance institutions and investment process participants
• Plan investment expenditures
• Classify and administrate investment projects
• Understand investors’ requirements
• Understand features of different sources and forms of investment, choose the right one, and valuate the resources of payment tax protection
• Differentiate features of capital sources, choose the right one and valuate advantages and disadvantages of foreign investments
• Understand main indexes of the investment project, and valuate and compare innovation projects
• Understand risks of an investment project, make an analysis of an innovative project, pay damages of risks of the innovative project
• Develop a business plan for an innovative project and analyse the features of the innovative project