Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation Arkady Dvorkovich participated as a distinguished speaker during a panel session titled “The Policy Makers’ Challenge: Navigating Through a Recession”. The session was part of the #GMIS 2020 virtual summit...
On August 12, a press conference covering the launch of the Skolkovo Foundation’s first environmental program, GreenTech Startup Booster, took place. The project was organized with the support of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the...
“Skolkovo is one of the innovation centers, but let’s speak honestly: it is now the leading innovation center and probably, in terms of competency and capabilities, the most powerful center in the country.” This assessment was made during...
The eighth successive Startup Village technology conference opened on the very same day as the ten year anniversary of the creation of the Skolkovo Foundation. “This is a very important and meaningful date for us and we are very happy that we are marking...
Pierre Levy, the French Ambassador to Russia, was quite surprised when, during a visit to a Skoltech laboratory, he saw an Eiffel Tower in miniature, which was made as a test product for controlling a 3D printer. The tower has been reproduced with the...
Arkady Dvorkovich, Chairman of the SKOLKOVO Foundation, discussed the prospects for bilateral cooperation with the British Ambassador to Russia. On February 11, SKOLKOVO hosted a meeting between Arkady Dvorkovich, the Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation...
By the beginning of the official opening of the VII Open Innovations Forum, over 11 thousand people from more than 90 countries had registered to take part. This sets a new record for this major event, which traditionally kicks off the new innovations year...
This provision has been included into the Memorandum of Understanding, signed by Russian companies ‘Sputniks’ and ‘Glavcosmos Launch Services’ and the Tunisian company Telnet Holding. The partners agreed to cooperate in designing small...
Ambassadors from more than 50 countries visited the Skolkovo innovation city on Wednesday to meet with the Skolkovo Foundation’s senior management and hear more about opportunities for international tech companies and startups. An ambassador tests...
The Skolkovo Foundation council reviewed the results of its corporate acceleration programmes and Skoltech ’s oil and gas lab at their quarterly meeting on Tuesday evening, and also discussed the foundation’s participation in the Greater Skolkovo...
Russian-Indian economic cooperation may be best known for major military hardware deals, but the future lies in the exchange of hi-tech innovations, speakers resolved at the India-Russia Startup Summit held at the Skolkovo Technopark on Tuesday. Skolkovo...
The fourth annual CyberDay conference devoted to cybersecurity got underway at the Skolkovo Technopark on Friday, the 30 th anniversary of the establishment of Computer Security Day. Skolkovo Foundation chairman Arkady Dvorkovich speaking at the opening...
A delegation from the United Arab Emirates visited the Skolkovo innovation city on Thursday to discuss cooperation in areas including food technology. L-R: Skolkovo's Arkady Dvorkovich, Mariam Al Mehairi and Skolkovo Ventures' Vasily Belov. Photo...
The Skolkovo innovation city marked Knowledge Day, as September 1 is celebrated across Russia as the start of the new academic year, with a visit by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who toured the brand new campus of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology...
The annual Skolkovo Startup Village kicked off with two signing ceremonies and various jokes about the chilly weather on Thursday as startups, investors and major tech figures from all around the world gathered at the Skolkovo innovation city for Eastern Europe’s...
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...
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...
The Open Innovations forum kicked off on Monday morning at the Skolkovo innovation centre, attracting an estimated 18,000 people from all over the world to Russia’s biggest conference and exhibition devoted to homegrown innovative tech solutions. ...
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) unveiled its Center for Hydrocarbon Recovery’s new state-of-the-art laboratory on June 6 during the annual Startup Village, when Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich and Skolkovo Foundation...
The fifth annual Startup Village, a giant open-air event for hi-tech entrepreneurs and investors, opened Tuesday at the Skolkovo innovation city with the signing of two key agreements. Philips' Henk de Jong brandishes the symbolic key given to him...
A joint scientific conference organised by the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) kicked off at the Skolkovo innovation centre on Tuesday, marking the biggest joint event hosted by Skoltech...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visited the Skolkovo innovation city that he founded in 2010 during his tenure as president on Tuesday, where he inspected some of the tech startups supported by his brainchild project. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev...
Tech entrepreneurs, scientists, representatives of international companies and governments, and investors from all over the world flocked to the Skolkovo innovation centre on Wednesday for the first day of the annual Open Innovations forum. Skolkovo's...
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev praised the progress of Skolkovo on Monday during a regular visit to the innovation city that he founded as president of Russia six years ago. Prime Minister Medvedev and Skolkovo president Vekselberg walking in front of...
The U.S. aviation giant Boeing opened a state-of-the-art training and research centre at the Skolkovo innovation city outside Moscow on June 3, during the annual Startup Village. The Boeing centre is already home to two flight simulators, and is due to...