Representatives of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a confederation of former Soviet republics, visited the Skolkovo innovation centre on Wednesday, where they discussed cooperation in the fields of renewable energy and energy-saving technologies. ...
As 2017 draws to a close, the number of resident startups fostered by the Skolkovo Foundation has grown to 1,804. The foundation expects that figure, which has grown steadily since Skolkovo’s establishment in 2010, to remain fairly stable now, as some...
The Skolkovo Foundation has signed a cooperation agreement with Janssen, a Belgium-headquartered subdivision of U.S. pharma giant Johnson & Johnson, with the aim of boosting innovative pharmaceutical research, including through financial support. Priority...
The Skolkovo Foundation has teamed up with the Russian Export Centre, a state body that helps Russian companies enter foreign markets, to set up a Russian innovations hub in Dubai. The hub is planned to be located in the national innovations and industrial...
The Skolkovo innovation centre has launched a Telegram channel listing job vacancies at resident tech startups fostered by the Skolkovo Foundation, as well as jobs at the foundation’s partner industrial companies and at the foundation itself. The channel...
Russia’s biggest lender, Sberbank, has acquired 25.07 percent of shares in Skolkovo resident startup VisionLabs , which has been ranked one of the world’s best face recognition technology companies. VisionLabs founder and CEO Alexander Khanin...
Fibrum , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s IT cluster that makes virtual reality headsets, games and platforms, has developed the world’s first chain of virtual stores for the Chinese ecommerce platform AliExpress. Customers...
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...
The Skolkovo Foundation has won the right to host next year’s Asian Science Park Association (ASPA) conference in Russia’s Far Eastern city of Vladivostok. The decision to hold next year’s event at the brand new campus of the Far Eastern...
The leaders of HorizonX, a new subdivision of Boeing set up by the U.S. aerospace giant to search the world for startups offering revolutionary ideas, visited the Skolkovo innovation centre last week, where they were introduced to seven Skolkovo startups. ...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has tasked his government with creating infrastructure for driverless transport in Russia, bringing the country a step closer to the appearance of autonomous vehicles on its roads and motorways. Volgabus and KB Avrora's...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed a cooperation agreement with Russian Space Systems, a major designer and producer of space technology, at the MAKS international aviation and space salon on Wednesday. Under the agreement, the two sides will work together to...
Hot on the heels of other major French retailers scouring the Skolkovo innovation city for new technologies, a team of talent scouts from the Decathlon Group chain of sports stores met with a range of Skolkovo startups on Monday with a view to adopting their...
Four Skolkovo resident startups are among the 10 finalists of the Innotribe Startup Challenge taking place next week at the International Financial Congress in St. Petersburg. The four Skolkovo companies selected for the final of the competition on July...
Galina Balashova, the Soviet architect who designed generations of Soviet spacecraft interiors, will give a talk at the Skolkovo Technopark on Thursday as part of the annual Days of Industrial Design festival. Archive designs of spacecraft interiors by...
Russian President Vladimir Putin noted the cooperation between the Skolkovo Foundation and Brazil’s Tecnopuc innovations centre during official talks with his Brazilian counterpart, Michel Temer, at the Kremlin on Wednesday. Vladimir Putin (right...
The Skolkovo Foundation and its resident startups signed a raft of agreements with major commercial companies during the annual Skolkovo Startup Village on June 6-7. On the first day of the outdoor event for tech entrepreneurs and investors from around the...
The Skolkovo Foundation announced the official launch of Skolkovo Ventures – three new investment funds devoted to IT, industrial technology and biotech – at the Startup Village open-air conference on Tuesday. The investment funds have been set...
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...
A friendly Russian robot made by Skolkovo Foundation resident startup Promobot has sworn to protect British football fans attending the FIFA World Cup in Russia next year. The robot, named Alantim, read on the internet that many British fans were reluctant...
The Skolkovo Foundation has signed a strategic partnership agreement with the multinational pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca to carry out joint scientific research and educational activities in Russia. Irina Panarina, director of AstraZeneca Russia and...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed two agreements on Thursday aimed at providing the authorities responsible for Russia’s roads with hi-tech solutions designed by the foundation’s resident startups. Victor Vekselberg (left) and Roman Starovoit...
SL Onkolodzhi , a Skolkovo resident startup working on a cancer vaccine, has successfully completed phase I/IIa clinical trials together with its U.S. partner, CureLab Oncology, Inc . The two companies have developed a cancer vaccine called Elenagen™...
A competition to take part in a bootcamp in London is underway for Russian tech startups seeking to expand on international markets. The U.K.-Russia Techbridge Bootcamp is a nine-day programme in London held on June 13-21 for Russian tech companies described...
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...