It may seem odd that in a modern society we still rely on bees to a large extent for much of the food that ends up on our dinner plates, yet that is no overstatement, it is a fact. Even with all the advancements in agriculture that human civilization has made...
Sheikh Ahmed bin Nasser bin Jassim Al Thani, Qatar’s new ambassador to the Russian Federation, visited Skolkovo for the first time after recently taking up his post at the Qatar embassy in Moscow. During the visit, the ambassador met with Skolkovo Foundation...
Online pitch sessions by Russian and German companies took place on 4 April in the framework of the Hanover Trade Fair 2021. The focus of the German-Russian collaboration is on the fields of energy and energy efficiency. Image by Sk.ru. Nataliia...
A Singaporean delegation headed by Peter Ong, the chairman of Enterprise Singapore, met online with the Skolkovo Foundation chairman, Arkady Dvorkovich, to discuss ways to enhance cooperation between the organizations. This expansion focuses on several key...
The first Data Fusion international conference is devoted to cross-industry data synergy and qualitatively new model approaches to data fusion. The event is taking place in a hybrid format over the course of two days with a physical venue at Skolkovo Technopark...
Sputnix, a Skolkovo resident company, will launch a batch of commercial satellites on Saturday, March 20, from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The devices will be used for Earth observation and among them is a Tunisian-funded satellite, representing the...
Startup Tour 2021 kicked off on March 17 in the city of Tver. It is taking place online for the first time, and over the course of six weeks, the tour will move through Tver, Ufa, Samara, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar...
The Skolkovo Softlanding Program , which takes place multiple times a year, is an easy way for foreign companies seeking market entry into Russia and the CIS. By participating, they learn the ins and outs of the Russian market and the Skolkovo Innovation Center...
Years of economic crisis due to low oil prices has spurred people in the Russian regions to create their own companies, even in the face of a global pandemic. The Skolkovo Startup Tour draws the country's entrepreneurs together into the largest innovation...
Валентину 16 лет, у него ДЦП и он сделал все от него зависящее, чтобы первым в России получить в свое распоряжение медицинский экзоскелет от сколковской компании «ЭкзоАтлет». Для этого он вручную разрисовывал шелковые платки и собирал деньги, полученные...
Day two of AIM Eurasia 2021 saw four Skolkovo startups presenting their smart cities solutions to a wide audience in the Middle East and other countries. The Skolkovo companies presenting at the Annual Investment Meeting (AIM) Eurasia workshop titled...
Dubai's Annual Investment Meeting (AIM) Eurasia 2021, a partner to the Skolkovo Foundation and Roscongress, kicked off on March 2 in online format. Kirill Kaem, the Skolkovo Foundation’s Senior Vice President for Innovations and member of Roscongress...
Skolkovo Foundation chairman, Arkady Dvorkovich, opened Friday’s forum – part of the France-Russia Trianon Dialogue – which focused on the hot topic of AI-based technology solutions. The forum took place on February 26 and brought together...
Group-IB’s Preventative Proxy, which has the capacity to protect 160 million users against malicious bots, has been included in Rospatent’s top-10 most important Russian inventions 2020. Group-IB is the only company representing the internet...
The Russian Science Foundation has offered a $1.4 million (108 million rubles) grant to Professor Mikhail Lebedev of Duke University, North Carolina, for his idea to develop invasive and non-invasive corticospinal and peripheral interfaces using biomarker monitoring...
Skolkovo Foundation Chairman Arkady Dvorkovich, who headed a recent visit to Serbia, stated that Russian and Serbian IT startups will get support from the Russian government, making it easier for companies to enter both the Russian and Serbian markets. ...
Food security will be a rising issue in the coming decades, which is why we need to rethink the way we grow crops to suit the needs of our society and environment. Skolkovo’s iFarm is one of Russia’s leaders in this area and is building vertical...
A delegation representing Innovaud, the innovation and investment promotion agency for the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland, visited Skolkovo Innovation Center on Monday with the goal of building mutual relations aimed at benefitting startups on both sides. ...
The Botkin.AI platform, a high accuracy, AI-based solution for analyzing medical images (CT scans, mammograms, and digital X-rays), has received the CE mark. CE certification will allow Intellogic, the company behind Botkin.AI, to export the platform to the...
Group-IB, one of Skolkovo’s international companies that specializes in protection against and prevention of cyberattacks, has been awarded with the prestigious Innovation Excellence prize from the global research and consulting agency Frost & Sullivan...
Five Russian companies, four of which are Skolkovo residents, pitched their sustainable AI-based solutions at the UN global summit “AI for Good.” The five companies were selected from a group of 40 startups that offered solutions tackling the UN’s...
Five Russian startup companies, four of which are Skolkovo Foundation residents from the innovation center’s IT cluster, will pitch their AI-based sustainable solutions at the Russian track of the AI for Good Global Summit taking place on January 27,...
When one thinks of a flying taxi, one usually pictures scenes from sci-fi movies such as The Fifth Element and Blade Runner. Yet in megacities across the world projects are underway with the goal of one day bringing drone-taxies into everyday life. Moscow is...
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and the Far Eastern High Technology Fund (FEHTF) have invested €4.4 million into Skolkovo Foundation resident Motorika, a leading Russian developer and producer of high-tech prosthetics and rehabilitation systems...
NFWare company, a Skolkovo Foundation resident from the innovation center’s IT cluster, recently attracted $1.4 million investment from Google Research business angels and other investors – Softline Venture Partners, Plug and Play Ventures –...