Следить за программой Startup Village 2015 и ориентироваться на площадке крупнейшей в России и Восточной Европе стартап-конференции поможет специальное мобильное приложение. Мероприятие пройдет 2-3 июня на территории иннограда Сколково, а приложение уже доступно...
A pavilion dedicated to the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) will feature at Startup Village, organizers said on Monday. The ROC signed a memorandum of understanding with the Skolkovo Foundation in February to build an Olympic Technopark at the Skolkovo Innovation...
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...
Hundreds of Moscow students packed out a lecture theater this week to hear what most of them already believe: Pharma’s Cool. The lecture hall at Moscow’s Sechenov University of Medicine. Photo: sk.ru The three-week lecture series targeting...
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...
В рамках международной конференции Skolkovo Robotics в Гиперкубе Сколково 20 марта состоится инвестиционная питч-сессия робототехнических проектов. Свое участие в ней подтвердили 22 венчурных фонда. В их числе: Grishin Robotics, Almaz Capital, Starta Capital...
Thirty-seven companies will battle for a place at Startup Village this week, when the Russian Startup Tour makes its fifth stop on the 12-stage trip in Yekaterinburg. The Yekaterinburg Expo Center. Photo: www.ekaterinburgexpo.ru Russia’s fourth...
The Skolkovo Foundation is stepping up its efforts in the fight against cancer by putting its biomedical startups at the disposal of the oncological community. Skolkovo VP Kirill Kaem, left, exchanging agreements with Sergei Tyulyandin in Moscow. Photo...
The third stage of the Russian Startup Tour concluded this week in Nizhny Novgorod, where two startups won million-ruble investments and six were invited to Startup Village in Moscow this summer. The finalists and winners from the pitch sessions in Nizhny...
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...
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...
The first annual all-Russian innovations meeting, focusing on regional development, began at the Skolkovo Hypercube on Wednesday, signaling the start of a huge drive to kick-start the high-tech startup industry across the country. Deputy Prime Minister...
The Skolkovo International Robotics Conference promises to be bigger, longer and more compelling than ever before this year, with around 1,200 participants expected at the Hypercube for Russia’s top robotics event in March. Registration for the...
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...
The concept of omics may still leave most people baffled, but for science communities, this hugely promising approach to biolomedical research is already 25 years old and ignorance could be costly. Skolkovo, for its part, is taking no chances. The Hypercube...
Alexander Borodich, one of Russia’s most active investors, has been named the country’s business angel of the year in a ceremony at the Skolkovo Hypercube. Borodich is one of the founding members of the Closed Business Angels Club, itself one...