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...
Fyodor Konyukhov is 67 years old. By the time he turns 70, he plans to have piloted a solar-powered plane around the world – without stopping. The flying laboratory landed inside the Skolkovo innovation city for the Open Innovations forum. Photo...
Energy, space, ICT and smart city technologies are all areas in which Egypt could join forces with the Skolkovo Foundation, Egyptian Ambassador to Russia Ihab Nasr said during a visit to the Skolkovo innovation city on Monday. Egyptian Ambassador Ihab...
Skolkovo took its cooperation with one of Europe’s biggest tech startup nations to a new level this week, with the visit of the French ambassador to the innovation city and the signing of a memorandum of understanding with two French business organisations...
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...
Samocat Sharing , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s energy-efficient technologies cluster, is expanding its kick scooter sharing scheme to the Finnish city of Espoo. Sergei Pisarenko, cofounder of Samocat Sharing, rides a scooter around...
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...
Работа бурового инженера в чем-то подобна работе дантиста. Одному надо как можно точнее пробурить скважину, чтобы попасть в нефтяной пласт и не выйти из него; другому - сделать то же самое в зубном канале. Мало кто из нас бывал на нефтяном месторождении, но...
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...
A 3D printer that prints buildings, a system for destroying toxic algae using an electrical current and a method of monitoring employees' health via a device worn on their clothes were among the futuristic industrial startups competing for prizes at the...
As Russia marked Russian Science Day on February 8, a delegation from Germany’s Helmholtz Association of research centres visited the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) to discuss ways of improving cooperation between the two countries’...
Джордж Буш как-то сказал Тони Блэру: «Что вы хотите от этих французов, у них даже нет слова «entrepreneur». Эту байку рассказал министр экономики, промышленности и цифровых технологий Франции Эмманюэль Макрон, выступая в Сколтехе перед большой...
На протяжении большей части своей истории Чили страдала от собственного географического положения: узкая полоска земли, протянувшаяся на 4 тысячи километров с севера на юг между Тихим океаном и Андами. Пустыня Атакама на севере, ледники на юге, цунами и землетрясения...
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich welcomed students on the Stanford US-Russia Forum (SURF) to Skoltech this week, urging young scientists do their utmost to influence politicians at such events. Arkady Dvorkovich with SURF students at Skoltech...
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...
A ceremony at Skolkovo on Tuesday saw one of the world’s leading steel pipeline producers lay the first stone in the construction of a new research center at the innovations hub. Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg, left, and TMK chairman Dmitry...
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...
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...
The fifth stage of the Russian Startup Tour culminated this week with four teams from Yekaterinburg winning an invitation to the Startup Village in Moscow. The finalists in Yekaterinburg. Photo: sk.ru The capital of the Ural Mountains region was...