An innovations cluster is to be established in Moscow, with the president of the Skolkovo Foundation named as one of its curators under a decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday. The cluster will coordinate interaction between industry...
Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg and co-chairman of the foundation council Arkady Dvorkovich were appointed Monday to a government commission chaired by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev devoted to modernizing the economy and Russia’s innovative...
The German state of Bavaria’s minister president visited the Skolkovo innovation city Friday at the head of a delegation of representatives of Bavarian business to identify areas of cooperation between the two innovations hubs. Skolkovo Foundation...
Skolkovo resident startup GeoSteering Technologies , the maker of “smart drilling” software for use at oil and gas production facilities, signed an agreement with the government of the Tyumen region at the Sochi 2017 Russian Investment Forum this...
Senators from the Federation Council, the Russian parliament’s upper chamber, visited the Skolkovo innovation city on Tuesday to hold an external committee meeting and tour the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ). The subcommittee...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed a strategic business cooperation agreement with the Russian division of Japan’s Panasonic Corporation during a state visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the island nation on Friday. Skolkovo vice president...
The Skolkovo Foundation has signed a cooperation agreement with BioCubaFarma, Cuba’s biggest biotech company, continuing a series of agreements and mutual visits between the foundation and the island nation. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, right...
Russian President Vladimir Putin named two key figures at the Skolkovo Foundation among the foreign recipients of friendship awards on Wednesday. Pekka Viljakainen, a Finnish advisor to Skolkovo president Viktor Vekselberg, and Edward Crawley, the American...
Sanctions, food import bans and public sabre-rattling between Russia and the West seemed like nothing more than a bad dream at the opening of the Startup Village, an international event for tech entrepreneurs, at the Skolkovo innovation centre on Thursday....
The Skolkovo Foundation took its ongoing cooperation with Cuba to a new level on Friday with a visit by the island nation’s second-in-command, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez. Bermudez, first vice president of Cuba’s State Council and Council of Ministers...
The director of Algeria’s National Agency for the Promotion and Development of Technoparks (ANPT) visited the Skolkovo Innovation Centre on Friday, two days after the agency and the Skolkovo Foundation signed a memorandum of cooperation during a visit...
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin cut the ceremonial ribbon to officially open Nobel Street at the Skolkovo Innovation Center on Wednesday, the second day of the Startup Village conference. Medvedev, center, shakes hands with Sobyanin as Arkady Dvorkovich...
Panasonic opened its R&D Center at Skolkovo during Startup Village on Tuesday, opening a new chapter in electronics research cooperation between Russia and Japan. The Panasonic R&D Center at Skolkovo Technopark Office Center. Panasonic signed...
The US Ambassador to Russia, John F. Tefft, has signaled his country’s continuing support for the Skolkovo project, noting in a speech at Startup Village that the relationship will not be imperiled by political tensions. US Ambassador to Russia...
Skolkovo’s Biomed Cluster is expecting around 30 to 40 agriculture-based startups to become residents in the coming months as the Russian government moves to encourage high-tech innovation in food production. Skolkovo VP Kirill Kaem, the executive...
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 led by Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart. Fidel Castro...
A research cluster devoted to agriculture technology could appear at the Skolkovo Foundation in the near future, Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg said Wednesday. Speaking at a conference on innovating in times of economic difficulties, Vekselberg said...
Skolkovo is aiming to contribute 1.5 trillion rubles to the Russian economy by 2020, Foundation president Victor Vekselberg said Friday. Addressing Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s commission on economic modernization at the Hypercube, Vekselberg noted...
Electronics giant Panasonic became a partner of the Skolkovo Foundation on Friday, signing a deal with Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg that obliges the Japanese multinational to build research facilities at the Russian innovation center. The agreement...
Skolkovo put 12 of its top energy startups on display Wednesday at the second annual Oil and Gas Forum in Moscow, which was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich and moderated by Skolkovo Foundation president Viktor Vekselberg. The first day...
The Skolkovo Foundation held a housewarming party Saturday at the innovation center just outside Moscow, opening a new chapter in the project to modernize Russia’s economy. Skolkovo president Viktor Vekselberg, left, speaking at the ribbon-cutting...
The Skolkovo Foundation over the weekend wound up a trip to India that strengthened business and education ties with Russia. Speaking on the sidelines of a board meeting, foundation president Viktor Vekselberg noted that “business between Russia and...