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  • Dvorkovich welcomes Stanford program students to Skoltech

    Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich welcomed students on the Stanford US-Russia Forum (SURF) to Skoltech this week, urging young scientists do their utmost to influence politicians at such events. Arkady Dvorkovich with SURF students at Skoltech...

    08 September, 16:09 Nowak David
  • Аркадий Дворкович: «Мы рассчитываем на Сколтех»

    Вице-премьер Аркадий Дворкович призвал студентов Сколтеха проявлять креативный подход не только к занятиям в университете, но и за пределами университетских аудиторий, с учетом того, что Сколтех находится в инновационном центре «Сколково». Обращаясь...

    07 September, 20:59 Baklanov Mikhail
  • 'Caring for people in their environment'

    The Skolkovo Innovation Center is often praised for the rate at which it is sprouting out of the ground on a patch of land just west of Moscow. Just a few years into the project, hundreds of resident companies are already here, as is the Skoltech university...

    01 September, 9:21 Nowak David
  • What a difference a year makes

    When Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev declared at Startup Village that the Skolkovo Innovation Center is developing as planned, he was speaking as someone who’d had the benefit of several helicopter fly-bys to back up the assertion. Now, the picture...

    05 June, 10:16 Nowak David
  • Dmitry Medvedev awards first diploma in Skoltech history

    Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev extended his congratulations to Skoltech’s first graduates on Wednesday, ceremonially awarding the first diploma at Startup Village. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, somewhere in the melee of graduates. Photo...

    03 June, 15:05 Nowak David
  • Startup Village: скучно не будет

    Двукратный чемпион Формулы-1 Мика Хаккинен станет участником открывающейся во вторник конференции Startup Village. Из статьи о «летающем финне», размещенной в Википедии, можно узнать множество любопытных деталей его биографии, включая пожар, в котором...

    01 June, 10:51 Baklanov Mikhail
  • First Skoltech students to celebrate graduation at Startup Village

    The first batch of Skoltech students will celebrate the end of their last year of study in a ceremony at Startup Village, the innovation university’s vice president Alexei Sitnikov told sk.ru. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev with Skoltech student...

    29 May, 14:48 Nowak David
  • Update available for Startup Village

    Improvements in this version of Startup Village: Record crowds, new setting, creative catering. Like the leading smartphone apps, Startup Village is constantly evolving. The third edition of Russia and Eastern Europe’s biggest startup event is no...

    26 May, 13:03 Nowak David
  • A forum of robots, a meeting of minds

    The third Skolkovo Robotics International Conference was a runaway success, attracting a wide array of participants from all corners of the planet and, critically, encouraging the discipline to flourish domestically. The March 20-22 event at the Skolkovo...

    24 March, 11:16 Nowak David
  • The day the Russian Startup Tour ceases to be ‘Russian’

    A key message that Skolkovo transmits its startups is the need to expand into new territories. Now it is leading by example: This week, Russia’s biggest innovations roadshow ventures abroad for the first time in its five-year history. Almaty - the...

    13 March, 14:02 Nowak David
  • Vekselberg: Russia should have a dozen Skolkovos

    Addressing officials from 79 of Russia’s 83 regions from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok, Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg on Wednesday called for the creation of a dozen similar innovation centers across the country. The conference at the Hypercube...

    28 January, 15:19 Nowak David
  • Medvedev: Russia sowing seeds of innovations economy

    Russia has made strides in creating the infrastructure needed for an innovations-based economy, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Friday at a meeting of the economic modernization commission presidium at the Skolkovo Hypercube. Medvedev was chairing the...

    19 December, 13:46 Nowak David
  • Craig Barrett: Politics moves faster than innovation and research

    Skolkovo Foundation Council co-chairman Craig Barrett voiced confidence on Thursday that the project to diversify Russia’s economy would far outlive the current political troubles. Barrett, Intel chairman until 2009, spoke at the final quarterly meeting...

    18 December, 20:44 Nowak David
  • «Инновации – это не новые идеи, а способность отрешиться от старых»

    «Только сомнения и вопросы стимулируют креативность». Так говорит человек, имеющий право выражаться афористично, чтобы это не казалось банальностью: швейцарский воздухоплаватель и изобретатель в третьем поколении Бертран Пикар. Создатель Solar impulse...

    15 October, 17:49 Baklanov Mikhail
  • Tech forum can open floodgates for Russian-Chinese cooperation – Vekselberg

    The Open Innovations forum in Moscow next month can usher in a new era of science and technology cooperation between Russia and China, Skolkovo Foundation president Viktor Vekselberg said Tuesday. The international conference, to be held at the Moscow Technopolis...

    30 September, 17:36 Nowak David
  • Большая национальная идея Сколтеха: фотоника

    Самый молодой российский исследовательский университет, Сколтех, в канун своей трехлетней годовщины громко заявил о себе, приняв активное участие в инициировании национальной программы фотоники, направления, которое может определить характер технологий ХХI...

    01 September, 10:26 Baklanov Mikhail