March, 2015 - Skolkovo Community

Biomed Cluster to take on 30-40 agriculture projects – Kirill Kaem
26.03.2015

Moscow students discover Pharma's Cool
25.03.2015

‘Meet you on the corner of Malevich and Smith’ - Skolkovo registers street names
The names of 14 streets at the Skolkovo Innovation Center have been registered with Moscow City Hall, the latest milestone in the development of Russia’s premier innovations hub. The layout of the...
24.03.2015

¡Viva la innovación! Skolkovo develops Latin America ties
Skolkovo is looking to tap the biotechnology potential of Cuba and other parts of Latin America, officials said this month after foundation president Victor Vekselberg received a high-level Cuban delegation...
23.03.2015

Cattle-farming innovations triumph at Kazakh pitch sessions
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - The top two biomedical innovations at the Startup Tour in Almaty this week seek to modernize cattle rearing in Kazakhstan, with promising knock-on effects for the meat and dairy industries...
20.03.2015

A Russian-Kazakh pipeline for oil and gas cooperation
Access to clients such as Gazprom and Rosneft is on offer for Kazakh startups that join the Skolkovo ecosystem, said the executive director of the foundation’s Energy Cluster, Nikolai Grachev, at...
19.03.2015

Top Kazakh minister opens Startup Tour in Almaty
ALMATY - Kazakhstan’s Minister for Investment and Development Asset Issekeshev raised the curtain Thursday on the sixth leg of the Russian Startup Tour - and first to take place abroad – with...
19.03.2015

Skoltech president Ed Crawley: Creating another MIT would be a ‘waste of energy’
In building the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, it would be an “extraordinary waste of energy” to simply create another MIT, the president of the fledgling Russian innovations...
16.03.2015

Russia’s leaders congratulate physicist Alferov on 85th birthday
The Kremlin and the White House have congratulated Zhores Alferov, a pioneering Soviet physicist and co-chair of Skolkovo’s Scientific Advisory Council, on his 85th birthday. Photo: sk.ru President...
16.03.2015

Skoltech sends students to Aalto University in search of cutting-edge electronics
Russian-Finnish collaborative research that scientists hope could usher in a new age of consumer electronics took a first tentative step this month, as Skoltech students traveled to Helsinki to study nanomaterials...
12.03.2015

Skolkovo teams up with VisionLabs for computer vision Olympics
Skolkovo’s Robocenter is teaming up with IT cluster resident VisionLabs to present Russia’s first computer vision Olympics. The event, set for March 27 at the Baumann Moscow State Technical...
12.03.2015

Russian Startup Tour swings into Yekaterinburg
Thirty-seven companies will battle for a place at Startup Village this week, when the Russian Startup Tour makes its fifth stop on the 12-stage trip in Yekaterinburg. The Yekaterinburg Expo Center. Photo...
10.03.2015