A pilot project titled TransportTV introduced on Moscow buses to provide passengers with useful information about their journey is proving a hit with its test audiences, who have rated the system an average of 4.7 out of 5 in an online vote since it was launched...
Moscow buses began testing a new information system for passengers this week that along with details of the route, estimated arrival times and news also presents information about places of interest as the bus passes them. Vadim Mokhov, head of RosInnovation...
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...
The president of Boeing for Russia and the CIS says the aviation giant’s research center at Skolkovo should be up and running by the end of the year. President of Boeing for Russia.CIS Sergei Kravchenko. Photo: sk.ru Boeing is a key partner...
The R&D spinoff of Dauria Aerospace, Russia’s first private space firm, is to receive 60 million rubles from the investment arm of state corporation Vnesheconombank under a deal signed Tuesday at Startup Village. Morozov, left, and Ivanov. Photo...
The Skolkovo Foundation may open a representative office in the Pacific port city of Vladivostok, the head of its space cluster, Sergei Zhukov, was quoted as saying on Wednesday. Asked about the innovation environment in the Far Eastern city of Komsomolsk...
Space cluster resident RoboCV has secured $3 million in new investments, allowing the autopilot vehicle developer to launch new international projects. The firm announced in a press release on Wednesday that the A round investments came from from I2BF...
A decision by Dauria Aerospace to cut back on its international activity is “completely expected,” Skolkovo vice president and space cluster executive director Alexey Belyakov told sk.ru. “In a climate of sharply constricting financial...
Russia’s top Earth-monitoring company ScanEx has signed a deal with the Skolkovo Foundation to base a 250 million ruble R&D center at the Innovation Center. ScanEx, operating since 1989, offers a complete set of services ranging from acquisition...
Skolkovo partner Dauria Aerospace has been named by SpaceNews magazine as one of the world’s top seven commercial operators in 2014. Dauria Aerospace sent Russia into the new space economy of private commercial operations earlier this year with the...
HELSINKI, Finland - Russia’s first space entrepreneur says it’s judgment day for his country’s startup industry. Speaking to sk.ru on the sidelines of Europe’s biggest tech conference, Slush 2014 in Helsinki, Mikhail Kokorich said...
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...
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...
The Skolkovo Foundation has awarded a 150 million ruble grant to its resident space startup Dauria Satellite Technology to develop an Earth-observation satellite. The company is a subsidiary of Skolkovo partner Dauria Aerospace, and will use the cash injection...