Despite the 9,000 kilometres between them, the Skolkovo innovation centre outside Moscow and Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University ( FEFU ) in Vladivostok have a lot in common. They were both created in 2010, when four of the Far East’s leading...
The proximity of Vladivostok to Asia is palpable throughout the port city in Russia’s Far East, from the abundance of right-hand drive cars imported from Japan – a growing number of them electric – and currency exchange points displaying rates...
VLADIVOSTOK — On his way back to Moscow from a tour of the United States in 1959, Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev stopped off in Russia’s Far Eastern port city of Vladivostok. Inspired by what he had just seen in America and the basic parallels between...
A new technopark opened its doors in Russia’s Far East port of Vladivostok on Wednesday, with the aim of fostering tech entrepreneurship and startups there with support from the Skolkovo Foundation. Victor Vekselberg, Olga Vasilyeva and Nikita Anisimov...
The Skolkovo Foundation will spend the next few years focusing on developing tech entrepreneurship in Russia’s regions, the foundation’s chairman of the board told a meeting of its scientific advisory council on Tuesday. Nobel prize winners...
Огромный океанариум, открывшийся в 2016 году на острове Русский, до сих пор в основном служил источником новостей для хроники происшествий, однако в недалекой перспективе с помощью «Сколково» может сделаться центром компетенций в сфере аквакультуры...
The Skolkovo Foundation has awarded its first invitations to next year’s Startup Village in Moscow, selecting two Asian startups from the finalists of the Tech in Asia Jakarta Arena competition. The winners of Tech in Asia Jakarta Arena, including...
JAKARTA, Indonesia — In a city with even worse traffic jams than Moscow, it is surely no coincidence that the first unicorn to emerge from the Indonesian capital of Jakarta was a transport app: Go-Jek, which began as a bike-taxi service. Participants...
ВЛАДИВОСТОК. Первый технологический фестиваль в Приморье Startup Village by THE SEA завершился так, как обещали организаторы: всех победителей послали в баню. Точнее в сауну: самый известный в Финляндии акселератор Startup Sauna. В полном соответствии со...