The Skolkovo Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan’s IoT Acceleration Consortium on the eve of the Eastern Economic Forum , following talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe in Russia’s...
Sputnix , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation that makes hi-tech microsatellite components and services, has signed a cooperation agreement with the Far Eastern Federal University ( FEFA ) on educational scientific work to create and operate small...
Skolkovo resident Anisoprint , the maker of an innovative 3D printer, will host a conference at the Skolkovo innovation city next week devoted to additive manufacturing using continuous fibers reinforced polymer (CFRP) composite materials. Antonov demonstrating...
Two Vietnam-based companies – one that helps people to secure their copyright and another that creates smart tags using QR codes – will be attending the Skolkovo innovation centre’s Startup Village outside Moscow in June after winning invitations...
Questions surrounding artificial intelligence and whether or not it constitutes a threat to mankind have dominated the headlines this year. Now the Skolkovo innovation centre is gathering together Russian and international experts in this field to discuss the...
В рамках конференции FinTech Lab 2016 состоялась битва питчей финтех-стартапов, по итогам которой сервис Cashoff, разработанный резидентом «Сколково» « Кэшофф Лаб », набрал наибольшее число голосов от представителей банковского сообщества...
Oil producer Gazprom Neft is to open a research and development centre at the Skolkovo innovation centre outside Moscow under an agreement signed Thursday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg (left)...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev cast his eye over innovations from residents of the Skolkovo Foundation this week at the Russian Arms Expo in Nizhny Tagil. Belyakov, left, showing Medvedev the Skolkovo stand. Photo: sk.ru Medvedev, who created...
Russia’s high-tech startups are getting better by the year, but innovators need to be more persistent to commercialize their solutions, said Pekka Viljakainen, advisor to Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg and an ever-present in three editions of the...
The second foray outside the confines of Russia begins Tuesday for the Startup Tour, which visits the Belarusian capital of Minsk in its quest to uncover and develop the top startups in the CIS. The National Library of Belarus in Minsk, venue for the...
The Skolkovo Foundation is sending 13 resident startups to the world’s biggest industry fair, Hannover Messe 2015. Hannover Messe brings together 10 leading trade fairs taking place in parallel for the April 13-17 event, covering a wider range of themes...
A wind generator, a cow pregnancy test and the curiously titled Internet of Vegetables were among the victors in the pitch contest at the seventh stage of the Startup Tour, which wrapped up in St. Petersburg this week. The winners of the pitch sessions...
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 a roundtable in Almaty on Thursday. Nikolai Grachev...
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...
U.S. tech giant Intel on Tuesday announced it had become a partner to the Russian Startup Tour and the summer's Startup Village, two of Russia’s most important events to encourage the growth of new high-tech companies. Intel's Valery Cherepennikov...
Investors are ready to plow up to $20 million into joint startup projects between India and Russia, Skolkovo vice president Igor Bogachev told the TASS news agency Friday. “At Skolkovo alone we have 70 registered venture funds that want to invest in...
Indian firms are to form their own IT cluster at the Skolkovo Innovation Center. An agreement to that end was signed Thursday in New Delhi between the Skolkovo Foundation and Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC) of India. ESC...
Russia’s leading automobile manufacturer AvtoVAZ is exploring ways it can interact with Skolkovo’s ecosystem, from incorporating the technology of its startups to contributing to conferences, the foundation’s senior vice president Vasily Belov...
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...
A prominent US diplomat said Monday that Skolkovo’s partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is more important now than ever. In opening remarks at the US-Russia Research Symposium in the Russian capital, Jeffrey Sexton, minister...
HELSINKI, Finland – The warm welcome meted out to the Skolkovo delegation at Europe’s biggest startup conference last week shows that Russia is becoming a key player on the international tech scene, but the organization can’t rest on its laurels...
HELSINKI, Finland - The Skolkovo stand at Slush 2014 featured so many resident companies that they weren’t all able to exhibit their innovations simultaneously. A handful of the total 51 startups – out to woo the wealthy investors milling around...
HELSINKI, Finland - The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology has struck up a student exchange program with Aalto University in Finland, Skoltech vice president Alexei Sitnikov told sk.ru. The agreement between the two innovation-based universities...
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...
The inaugural Technopark Convention began at the Skolkovo Hypercube on Thursday, raising the curtain on Russia’s first wide-scale forum for knowledge exchange, idea-generation and dialogue with state officials on the current situation and prospects for...