Group-IB , a Skolkovo resident company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, is opening new global headquarters in Singapore, it announced at CyberCrimeCon 2018 in Singapore on Monday. Ilya Sachkov, CEO of Skolkovo resident company Group-IB at...
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...
“Ugly aeroplanes don’t fly,” the famed Soviet aircraft designer Andrei Tupolev is often quoted as saying. This is the unofficial motto of the upcoming Days of Industrial Design festival at the Skolkovo innovation city, according to its...
A pair of very special speakers took part in a conference devoted to 3D bioprinting in space at the Skolkovo innovation centre on Wednesday. Two cosmonauts – commander Anton Shkaplerov and flight engineer Oleg Artemyev – answered questions and interacted...
Skolkovo resident 3D Bioprinting Solutions made headlines around the world in 2015 when it printed a functioning thyroid construct and transplanted it successfully into a mouse. Now it looks set to make history again by sending a bioprinter into space. 3D...
Every spring for the last three years, Russia’s leading space experts have met for the InSpace Forum in Moscow to discuss how to boost the country’s space industry by facilitating cooperation between the state space corporation Roscosmos and the...
The Skolkovo Foundation has joined forces with the U.K.’s AMR Centre, a private-public initiative launched in 2016 to support and accelerate the development of new antibiotics, to combat the global problem of antimicrobial resistance. Skolkovo's...
The U.S. may be streets ahead in the development of driverless cars, but there is one area where Russia could still overtake, Russian technology experts believe. Their secret weapon? That tried-and-tested historical ally, General Winter. For it’s one...
A large section of the Skolkovo Technopark was turned into an obstacle course with a difference this week, as people of all ages raced to complete a course that included walking up some steps while holding a tray of apples, opening a door at the top of the...
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...
Russia’s official position on the potentially lucrative field of asteroid mining is that it is outlawed by the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which declares that space is “the province of mankind,” and that its use and exploration must “benefit...
There was a distinct feeling of déjà vu at the second InSpace forum held in Moscow on Friday, where one year after the original event , the main players in Russia’s space industry pondered the same existential questions that had dominated...
On April 30, 1975, the Vietnam War ended when tanks from Communist North Vietnam burst through the wrought-iron gates of Saigon’s Independence Palace, the home and seat of the president of capitalist South Vietnam. Forty-one years later, Vietnam is still...
Mobile devices, the Internet of Things and outdated legislation were put under the microscope last week at the annual Business Information Security Summit in Moscow, as international IT security experts agreed on one thing: business technologies are growing...
Napoleon once allegedly described England as a nation of shopkeepers, but if he were around today, he would say the U.K. is a nation of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), according to U.K. clinical research expert Dr. Ignazio di Giovanna. Jonathan Brenton...
Leading experts in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence from around the world gathered at the Skolkovo innovation centre on Friday for the annual Skolkovo Robotics event. The annual Skolkovo Robotics event attracted both human robot-makers...
Russian pharmaceutical companies looking to enter the U.K. market – and vice versa – will meet with their British counterparts at a two-day conference at the Skolkovo innovation centre next week to forge new partnerships in developing innovative...
“Did you know that more than 70 percent of cancer patient deaths are caused not by the cancer itself, but by the side effects of chemotherapy?” With this shocking statistic just minutes into the presentation of his product, Andrei Garazha has the...
The MAKS air show has proved to be a significant driver of business for the Skolkovo Foundation, which has overseen deals for several resident companies and announced the completion of construction of a Boeing pilot training facility at the Innovation Center...
The Skolkovo Foundation and 11 of its resident startups have sought to gain a key foothold in Southeast Asia, as a road show to Singapore brought opportunities for forging new partnerships and cementing existing ties. The motivation behind the trip to...
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says Skolkovo is starting to produce tangible results, despite being less than five years old. From left: Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg, his advisor Pekka Viljakainen, and Prime Minister Medvedev. Photo: sk.ru ...
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...
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...
On March 20-22, the Hypercube will host Russia’s biggest robotics event, the Skolkovo International Robotics Conference. Photo: sk.ru Around 1,800 people are registered for the three-day bonanza, which brings robot developers, company CEOs...
Cloud hosting developer Jelastic announced the establishment of its European headquarters in Malaga, Spain, on Tuesday, anchoring the software company among the continent’s IT elite. Skolkovo VP Igor Bogachev, center left, with Jelastic representatives...