Development of training courses on the methodology of innovation for the master's program under the grant by V. Potanin

The article reveals the need to improve Master's programs in the scientific field of “Construction”. The relevance and demand of new Master's courses is conditioned by the transition of the world economy to a new technological era. New training modules help students form innovative thinking, professional and social skills, skills of self-organization for creative work. A brief description is given for the unified cycle of new courses on the methods of innovation in construction: “Functional-value analysis” (ABC-analysis), “Theory of Solving Invention Problems”, “Experiment Planning” and “Patent Science”. The courses are linked into a unified cycle through the logic of the Master's graduation work and study assignments. The annotation of the released study guides for Master’s students in the innovative training programs is given. The forms of demonstrating the project results in the university and third-party organizations are described. The results of fulfilling the educational project are given: number of study guides, number of applications for inventions, and number of students enrolled in post-graduate education. Difficulties in the fulfillment of the project are highlighted.