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...
The Skolkovo Foundation and Cuba’s Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology have signed a strategic partnership agreement, hailed by Skolkovo President Viktor Vekselberg as the start of a new era. Four memorandums were signed in Havana outlining...
The current political and economic tensions between Russia and the West promote import-subsitution at home, Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg has told the BBC Russian Service in an interview. Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg...
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 Skolkovo Foundation has signed an agreement with the Turku Science Park in Finland to create a 200 million euro ‘Biocity’ – a leading biomedical research facility. Victor Vekselberg, right, and Rikumatti Levomaki signing the deal...
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...
The Russian Startup Tour got underway on Tuesday in Rostov-on-Don, where more than 100 fledgling copmanies have signed up to take part in the first of 12 two-day programs. Skolkovo's delegation was led by foundation president Victor Vekselberg, second...
The Skolkovo Foundation on Wednesday signed a cooperation agreement with the Saratov State University. The agreement sees SSU share research findings with Skolkovo, which will intensify efforts to help boost the startup industry in the city on the Volga...
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 signed an agreement with India on Thursday to ramp up cooperation in the high-tech sector, part of a raft of deals overseen by Russian President Vladimir Putin during a trip to New Delhi. Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselber, center...
China’s Tsinghua University Science Park is to build research facilities at the Skolkovo Technopark, while the Moscow-based innovation center will be represented at the Beijing institute, Skolkovo Foundation president Viktor Vekselberg was quoted as saying...
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 has won the hosting rights to the International Association of Science Parks 2016 World Conference, along with partner bidders MSU Science Park, Technopark Strogino and the Innovation Development Center of Moscow. The vote was held...
The Skolkovo Foundation on Tuesday signed a cooperation agreement with United Space Rocket Corporation that will give startups access to Russia’s premier space exploration and development entity. The agreement was signed on the sidelines of the Open...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang paid a visit to the Skolkovo stand at the Open Innovations Forum in Moscow on Tuesday, checking in with resident companies to stay abreast of the latest advances in technology. ...
Russia and China on Monday signed a landmark cooperation deal that sees each country build research and development facilities in the other, strengthening economic cooperation between the neighbors in a project aptly named the Silk Road. In the agreement...
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...
Skolkovo has teamed up with Tel Aviv University to research projects of common interest, expanding the Foundation’s reach in the academic world. Skolkovo Foundation president Viktor Vekselberg signed a memorandum of understanding this week with Prof...
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...
Skolkovo Foundation president Viktor Vekselberg has wrapped up a board meeting in India by inviting the country’s startups to take part in Russia’s top innovations project, ITAR-Tass reported Friday. Vekselberg, one of Russia’s top entrepreneurs...