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  • A tale of two startup hubs: Bavarian delegation visits Skolkovo

    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...

    17 March, 12:30 Collinson Shura
  • Skolkovo hosts meeting of Federation Council committee

    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...

    31 January, 18:05 Collinson Shura
  • Medvedev praises Skolkovo’s effect on science, innovation and economy

    Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev hailed the development of the Skolkovo innovation centre that he founded six years ago as president at a meeting of its board of trustees on Wednesday. “Overall, the project is developing quite successfully, it’s...

    14 December, 15:38 Collinson Shura
  • 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 a call to transform Almaty into a major innovations hub...

    19 March, 8:29 Nowak David
  • Panasonic becomes Skolkovo partner

    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...

    19 December, 13:11 Nowak David
  • Russia won’t economize on Skolkovo – deputy PM

    HELSINKI, Finland - The finances are in place to guarantee the Skolkovo Innovation Center will be completed on schedule, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich told sk.ru on Tuesday. Speaking on the sidelines of Slush 2014, Europe’s biggest...

    18 November, 12:44 Nowak David
  • ‘We’ll be here for a very long time’

    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...

    05 October, 12:15 Nowak David