Russia has a new tech city, called Skolkovo, chock-full of co-working spaces, seed funding, and a research university. All they need now are the technologists.
A recruitment tour — led by the city's vice president, Igor Bogachev — arrived in San Francisco this week. Launched in 2010 with $3 billion in private and public investment, Skolkovo has about 1,060 resident technologists, and aims to have 20,000 living in the city by 2020. Russian technocrats are recruiting engineers from all over the country and around the world, promising funding, support and streamlined access to the difficult-to-penetrate Soviet region.
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