Doc+ , a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster that provides telemedicine services, has raised investment of $9 million led by the Swedish venture fund Vostok New Ventures. Doc+ allows patients to arrange home visits by a range of medical...
ANTWERP, Belgium – In the central covered courtyard of the iconic Antwerp Port House, beneath a soaring vertical extension designed by the late architect Zaha Hadid, Piet Opstaele stands on a giant map of Antwerp covering the floor, opens an augmented...
ANTWERP, Belgium – When it comes to innovations, the industrial city of Antwerp puts its money where its mouth is. Good ideas don’t stay at the theoretical stage for long, but are introduced as soon as practicable – directly onto the city’s...
На следующей неделе на острове Русский стартует «Остров 10-21» - первый в России образовательный интенсив, направленный на подготовку кадров для цифровой экономики и Национальной технологической инициативы. Один из образовательных партнеров проекта...
Few countries in the world can benefit from telemedicine and the remote diagnosis and monitoring services it offers as much as Russia, with its enormous territory and multitude of sparsely populated and hard to reach areas. Yet currently, digital healthcare...
With its baroque architecture and reputation for beer crafted over centuries, Belgium might not be the first country that casual visitors associate with cutting-edge innovations and technology. Yet the compact EU capital was ranked the world’s 14 th most...
The Lenpolygraphmash technopark in St. Petersburg was awarded the status of a regional Skolkovo operator at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum ( SPIEF ) on Thursday. Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg (right) hands St. Petersburg...
В Петербурге проходит Международный экономический форум, участниками которого, по прогнозам организаторов, за три дня станут около 15-ти тысяч человек из 70 стран. По традиции участие Фонда «Сколково» в ПМЭФ будет весьма заметным и многоаспектным...
A large part of the Skolkovo innovations ecosystem is preparing to head north to Russia’s second city this week for the annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum ( SPIEF ), which takes place on May 24-26. Skolkovo startups and foundation...
Long before he became one of the world’s richest men, Jack Ma applied for a job at KFC when it opened in China. Out of 24 applicants, all were accepted – except Ma, the business magnate himself has said. Now a popular Chinese joke has it that decades...
The Skolkovo innovation city welcomed a large delegation from the Belgian city of Antwerp this week, at which the two sides established areas of cooperation and one Skolkovo startup won the chance to launch pilot projects at Antwerp companies. The 100...
Not so long ago, a prostate cancer operation would cost the patient 1.5 litres of blood and entail a two-week stay in hospital. Now the average patient loses just 20 millilitres of blood, and three days in hospital are usually sufficient. This drastic change...
Около 50 резидентов Фонда «Сколково» создают технологии и продукты в концепции интернета вещей, охватывая все технологические направления – от регистрации, передачи и хранения данных до функциональных приложений для конечных пользователей...
When the Kursk region-based agricultural enterprise Agrofirma Rylskaya noticed that the costs of their sugar beet production were constantly rising, with no corresponding increase in yield, they turned to an innovative tech startup. Roboprob , a resident startup...
PERM — The Open Innovations Startup Tour 2018 began its journey across Russia to promote tech entrepreneurship on Tuesday, holding its first event of the year in the Urals city of Perm. Maxim Reshetnikov, governor of the Perm region, addresses the...
The annual Open Innovations Startup Tour , the Skolkovo Foundation’s journey across Russia to support tech entrepreneurship in the regions, kicks off Tuesday in the Urals city of Perm. This year, in addition to rewarding the best tech startups in each...
How can traditional intellectual property protection institutions such as patents continue to function in a world where new technologies are developed and go out-of-date in the space of a few months, if patents can take five years to obtain? If a robot creates...
Весной в иннограде будет развернут полигон для испытания сети 5G, заявил глава «Ростелекома» Михаил Осеевский на встрече с президентом России Владимиром Путиным. Руководитель «Ростелекома» сообщил, что компания начала тестировать сети...
Russia’s state banking giant Sberbank opened the country’s biggest data-processing centre at the Skolkovo innovation centre over the weekend. The Sberbank data-processing centre at Skolkovo is the biggest in Russia and one of the biggest in...
For centuries, ambitious young people have gone into law believing they would never be in want of work: the world will always need lawyers, so the thinking went. In the 21 st century, amid growing predictions that many human jobs will soon be outsourced to...
A new state-of-the-art Additive Manufacturing Laboratory (AM Lab) opened at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) on Tuesday, boasting a globally unrivaled collection of 3D printers. The Insstek MX 1000, the biggest 3D printer...
There is one topic that seems guaranteed to create a traffic jam along the usually uncongested road leading to the Skolkovo innovation centre, and that topic is blockchain and cryptocurrencies. This week, bitcoin approached a value per coin of $10,000, and...
A proposal sent to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to use artificial intelligence to improve Russia’s legal system made the headlines this week, but this process is in fact already underway. Robot-lawyers, the use of blockchain to create smart contracts...