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  • Generating innovations: Ruselprom becomes Skolkovo partner

    One of Russia’s largest manufacturers of electricity generators and electric motors is to form a research center at Skolkovo under an agreement worth 280 million rubles and signed at Startup Village this week. Grachev, right, and Shcherbakov at...

    05 June, 11:06 Nowak David
  • Skolkovo signs up for Energy Without Borders

    A major investment fund that provides the government with technology solutions in the energy industry is to base its research center at Skolkovo under a deal signed at Startup Village this week. The signing ceremony at Startup Village. Photo: sk.ru ...

    04 June, 11:45 Nowak David
  • MTE Group invests 50 million rubles in Skolkovo resident SEMAT

    Skolkovo resident SEMAT has secured 50 million rubles in investment from Russian-Czech company MTE Group to research electrical discharge machining, a deal signed at Startup Village. Karavaev and Volkov, in light suits, during the signing. Photo: sk.ru...

    04 June, 10:23 Nowak David
  • Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin cuts ribbon to open Nobel Street

    Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin cut the ceremonial ribbon to officially open Nobel Street at the Skolkovo Innovation Center on Wednesday, the second day of the Startup Village conference. Medvedev, center, shakes hands with Sobyanin as Arkady Dvorkovich...

    03 June, 14:15 Nowak David
  • Panasonic opens R&D Center at Skolkovo

    Panasonic opened its R&D Center at Skolkovo during Startup Village on Tuesday, opening a new chapter in electronics research cooperation between Russia and Japan. The Panasonic R&D Center at Skolkovo Technopark Office Center. Panasonic signed...

    02 June, 16:26 Nowak David
  • Стартап-тур - 2015 подошел к финишу

    В подмосковном Красногорске завершился последний этап Стартап-тура - 2015. Инновационное роуд-шоу прошло в нынешнем году по 10 городам России, а также побывало в Алма-Ате и Минске. В заключительный день подмосковного этапа тура жюри определило 15 победителей...

    30 April, 18:22 Baklanov Mikhail
  • Russian startups mature, but need more tenacity - Pekka Viljakainen

    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...

    29 April, 13:03 Nowak David
  • Krasnoyarsk startups told to dumb down their pitches

    The Krasnoyarsk stage of the 2015 Startup Tour ended with two local companies invited to the Startup Village pitch sessions in Moscow and a message for all participating innovators: Dumb down your pitches! The city in eastern Siberia was the ninth stop on...

    07 April, 15:05 Nowak David
  • Startup Tour leaves the Far East, but Skolkovo stays behind

    The Startup Tour may have left Russia’s Far East, but the Skolkovo Foundation remains in the region for the foreseeable future with the Vladivostok branch beginning its official operations on Monday. The winners in Vladivostok. Photo: sk.ru ...

    06 April, 11:48 Nowak David
  • Skolkovo opens Far East branch in Vladivostok

    Skolkovo Foundation chairman Andrei Burenin on Thursday announced the opening of a Skolkovo branch in Vladivostok to accelerate the commercialization of new technology from all over Russia’s Far East. Speaking at the eighth stage of the Russian Startup...

    02 April, 10:40 Nowak David
  • Dvorkovich: Startup Tour 2016 to include Armenia, Kyrgyzstan

    The expansion of Russia’s biggest innovations roadshow shows no signs of abating, with Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich saying the Startup Tour is to take in Armenia and Kyrgyzstan next year. The stops on this year's Startup Tour. ...

    01 April, 16:31 Nowak David
  • St. Petersburg delights with cow pregnancy tests and ‘Internet of Vegetables’

    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...

    27 March, 9:57 Nowak David
  • Стартап-тур в Алма-Ате: импульс для инновационного развития

    Проведение стартап-тура в Алма-Ате придаст импульс инновационному развитию этого первого по величине города Казахстана. Уверенность в этом выразил Асет Исекешев, министр по инвестициям и развитию Республики Казахстан, который открыл этап стартап-тура в Алма...

    19 March, 10:15 Mungalov Dmitry
  • Дан старт сбору заявок на конкурс Startup Village

    Фонд «Сколково» объявил о начале сбора заявок на конкурс Startup Village. Крупнейшее в Восточной Европе событие в области стартапов состоится 2-3 июня в иннограде Сколково. Как ожидается, в нем примет участие до 10 тысяч молодых предпринимателей...

    02 March, 13:19 Baklanov Mikhail