Every day, the headlines warn us that robots will soon replace humans in more and more jobs. But in many areas of industry, experts believe that the best work is a joint effort by man and technology. This is the thinking behind a competition held at the...
After a gruelling boot camp and months of preparations, six Russian biomed startups were selected Thursday to take part in the first AstraZeneca-Skolkovo accelerator, in which the companies will get intensive support from the multinational pharma giant for...
Три биомедицинских резидента Фонда «Сколково» стали участниками акселерационной программы, запущенной Фондом совместно с компанией «АстраЗенека». Всего по итогам конкурсного отбора жюри отобрало шесть проектов, авторы которых получат...
Корреспондент Sk.ru познакомился с работой первой в России цифровой патоморфологической лаборатории. Уникальны и предлагаемые ей услуги. «Некоторые этапы диагностического процесса в мире делают только в трех центрах – у нас и в двух зарубежных»...
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...
Startups, inventors, scientists, investors and business angels from all over the world are preparing to descend on the Skolkovo innovation city this week for its annual Startup Village, a giant two-day open-air conference and exhibition. Skolkovo's...
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...
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...
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...
“AI will not replace lawyers, but will enhance connections to data beyond the abilities of a human mind. And data can win cases,” believes Michael Lew, founder of LegalComet, a legal tech advisory service based in Singapore. Michael Lew, founder...
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...
На этой неделе программой в Калининграде стартовал второй сезон школы « Навигатор инноватора ». Это практико-ориентированная интенсивная (как правило, 4-дневная) программа для будущих лидеров научно-технологических проектов, уже второй год организуемая...
6 апреля в Сколково состоится международная конференция, посвященная применению искусственного интеллекта в праве. Это будет развитие и продолжение диалога, начатого во время масштабной конференции Skolkovo LegalTech, которая с большим успехом прошла в иннограде...
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...
15 февраля в Технопарке Сколково прошло представительное мероприятие по цифровой медицине Skolkovo Digital Health MeetUp. Оно собрало несколько десятков резидентов, в основном из IT и биомедицинского кластеров Фонда «Сколково», медиков, экспертов...
PERM — A medical training simulator, high-temperature 3D printer and automated geological prospecting system won their respective inventors tickets to Skolkovo’s Startup Village at the final of the Startup Tour in Perm on Wednesday. The winners...
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...
В столице Прикамья завершилась подача заявок от желающих принять участие в крупнейшем российском инновационном роад-шоу. В полуфинал регионального отбора Open Innovations Startup Tour прошли 100 человек, информирует правительство региона. Большинство участников...
6 февраля стартует очередной, уже шестой по счету Стартап Тур « Открытые инновации ». Его основной организатор – Фонд «Сколково». Стартап Тур – это самый масштабный проект, направленный на поиск перспективных инновационных...
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...
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...
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...
While recycling, a rejection of plastic bags and other eco-friendly initiatives are now a way of life in many European countries, Russia – the biggest country in the world – lags woefully behind in this area. This year was declared the Year of Ecology...