The Skolkovo Foundation is hunting for the country’s best innovative IT projects via the GoTech competition, and plans to reward them with up to 5 million rubles ($79,000), mentoring and expert advice from the foundation’s IT cluster. Skolkovo’s...
Dnevnik.ru , an educational social network made by a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster, is among the winners of the EdTechXGlobal All Stars Rise 20 awards for education technology. The winners of the EdTechXEurope All Stars Awards...
DRD Biotech , a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation that makes rapid tests for diagnosing strokes and other conditions affecting the brain, won second prize at the Asian Entrepreneurship Award in Tokyo this week, taking home 500,000 yen ($4,700). ...
The Internet of Things: IT Challenge competition reached its grand finale at the Skolkovo innovation centre Friday, with prizes of 5 million rubles ($78,000) awarded to the winners in several categories. Skolkovo resident THRONE Systems scooped first prize...
Dozens of young tech entrepreneurs left the fourth annual Startup Village elated on Friday after winning cash prizes of up to 3 million rubles ($45,000) in a competition at the culmination of the two-day event held at the Skolkovo innovation centre. Multikubik...
A team from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) won the Russian stage of the Eurobot 2016 amateur robotics competition at the weekend. The team, named reSET, will now compete in the international final of the competition next month...
The 2016 Startup Tour , Skolkovo’s roaming search for promising science and tech startups around the country, has visited its final destinations for this year. The winners from all the 13 cities visited by the tour will meet at the Skolkovo Innovation...
The architectural bureau of Zaha Hadid, the award-winning British architect who died last month, has won a design competition for the Sberbank technopark building that is due to be built at the Skolkovo Innovation Centre, Sberbank president German Gref announced...
A Skolkovo resident startup was awarded first prize in the Global Happiness Technology Challenge in China last week for its Webot telepresence product. Webot, a remote presence bot, allows users to observe the bot’s surroundings from their location...
The Skolkovo Foundation’s Startup Tour , a roving search for talented science and tech startups, has completed its visits to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad and the Belarussian capital Minsk. The winners of the Kaliningrad stage of the Startup...
The 2016 Startup Tour , the Skolkovo Foundation’s travelling quest for promising tech startups, made its first stop outside Russia this week with a visit to the Kazakh city of Almaty. Almost 700 budding entrepreneurs and scientists from around Kazakhstan...
The Skolkovo Startup Tour visited the city of Tula last week, where more than 500 scientists and entrepreneurs gathered to pitch their ideas to a panel of experts and investors scouring Russia for the most promising tech startups. Winners of the Tula...
Skolkovo resident company VisionLabs has been selected as one of just six projects in the final competition of Innorobo , Europe’s biggest robotics trade fair. VisionLabs will now pitch its facial recognition technology, software and cloud solutions...
The Skolkovo Foundation’s Startup Tour , a roving competition for budding tech entrepreneurs, visited the southern Russian city of Taganrog last week, where Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich awarded prizes to the winners in each of the five categories...
This week, the Skolkovo Foundation’s Startup Tour, which is travelling the country in search of promising tech startups, called in on the southern city of Krasnodar. The event, held on March 14-15, attracted more than 500 entrepreneurs and scientists...
Startups fostered by the Skolkovo Foundation won the first, second and third prizes over the weekend at Pioneers Moscow , a competition to discover the best budding tech companies. The final of the international Pioneers event at the Hofburg Imperial...
Two underwater robot projects were among the three winners of the Degree of Freedom competition for unmanned vehicles and driver assistance systems that will now be awarded mini-grants from the Skolkovo Foundation. GNOM's underwater robots are designed...
Two Skolkovo Foundation resident companies won awards at the Startup of the Year ceremony held on Friday evening at Moscow’s Digital October technology entrepreneurship centre. Flying the flag for Skolkovo were Fibrum , which makes virtual reality...
Exactly three years to the day that a meteorite fell to Earth in the Urals region of Chelyabinsk, the Skolkovo Startup Tour visited the city as part of its nationwide quest to find promising tech startups and give them a helping hand. Winners of the Chelyabinsk...
The Skolkovo Foundation’s Startup Tour has completed its third stop-off in the western Siberian city of Novosibirsk, following visits to Irkutsk and Vladivostok. The two-day event to identify promising tech startups was held at Novosibirsk’s...
The winners of the far eastern stage of the Skolkovo Foundation’s Startup Tour have been announced in Vladivostok, with projects in the biomedicine category leading the way. About 120 projects were presented to the jury in the categories of IT, industrial...
This year’s Startup Tour that kicks off on February 1 will have a difference: as the Skolkovo Foundation launches its annual nationwide hunt for promising startups in all branches of science and technology, the Open University Skolkovo (OpUS) is specifically...
An energy-saving project co-funded by the Skolkovo Foundation has been shortlisted for the prestigious IChemE Global Awards for excellence, innovation and achievement in the chemical, process and biochemical industries. UNIHEAT was created in 2012...
Skolkovo is teaming up with two of its biggest industrial partners in Panasonic and truck-maker KAMAZ in a search for the next big breakthrough in battery technology. Panasonic's Gavrilov, third from right, with Skolkovo colleagues. Photo: sk.ru ...
The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) has selected a paper by Professor Alessandro Golkar and Skoltech President Edward Crawley to receive the Systems Engineering journal’s 2014 Best Paper of the Year Award, reports the university’s...