Russian healthcare marked a major milestone on Wednesday with the opening of the branch of a top Israeli hospital at the Skolkovo innovation centre, meaning Russians can now access Israeli healthcare without having to leave the country. Prime Minister...
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...
The Skolkovo Technopark is once again getting ready to be taken over by robots for its annual Skolkovo Robotics Forum , which attracts robots – and the humans who make them – from all over the globe. As in previous years, Skolkovo Robotics...
The Skolkovo innovation city could soon be welcoming its first resident startups from South Korea, if applications from four companies currently taking part in a soft landing programme here are successful. Representatives of the South Korean startups...
Dr. Rupert Gerzer came to work at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) one year ago as an associate director of the research university’s Space Center, but as a qualified medical doctor, he does not hide the fact that his heart...
You have seven days to think up an original idea for a tech startup. You are put in a team with several other people whom you haven’t met before and whose area of expertise is not the same as yours. After a week, you will present your project to a team...
A group of students from Eton College, the U.K.’s most famous school, visited the Skolkovo innovation centre on Wednesday, where they were inspired by a selection of Russian startups including an exo-skeleton, a microsatellite and a surgery simulator...
ГАВАНА. Министр науки, технологий и окружающей среды Кубы Эльба Роса Перес Монтойя назвала «очень позитивным» опыт проекта «Сколково» и выразила заинтересованность в развитии дальнейшего двустороннего сотрудничества в области инноваций...
ГАВАНА. Когда этот кубинец учился в Воронежском госуниверситете и впоследствии в МГУ, его звали Хосе Рауль, и однокурсники поражались его сходству с молодым Фиделем Кастро. Сходство и впрямь совершенно удивительное, и с возрастом оно только усилилось. 66-летний...
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...
ВЛАДИВОСТОК. И победители, и эксперты Всероссийского стартап-тура во Владивостоке едины во мнении: Стартап-тур очень вовремя пришел в регион. Инновационные компании, «работающие в домене .asia» (термин первым применил Пекка Вильякайнен, идеолог...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - The Kazakh stage of the Startup Tour concluded on Friday with several innovations winning a place at the Startup Village in June and, perhaps more significantly, the foundations put in place for of a new era of high-tech cooperation between...
It’s 1975, and at a Soviet research institute in Leningrad, Andrei Kozlov is onto something. The biomedical scientist has just defended a PhD thesis, impenetrable to the uninitiated. Something about how genes are expressed in tumors and normal tissue...