New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) The Skolkovo Foundation, the strategic development institution of the Russian government, and the India government-sponsored Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC) Thursday announced the setting up of an information...
Space cooperation between Russia and India has come a long way since it began in 1975, when a Soviet space rocket launched India’s first satellite, Aryabhatta, and in 1984 the first Indian cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma flew into space aboard the Soyuz. Russian...
Innovators, entrepreneurs, investors and government officials all gather at the annual Start-up Village conference in Moscow. The state-sponsored Skolkovo Innovation Center boosts the innovation and start-up culture in Russia. The new Russian...
More than 50 Russian startups presented their ideas at Slush, a cutting-edge event for high-tech companies and venture investors in Finland from November 18-19. In 2014 more than 50 Russian startups attended Slush, the hippest IT event of the season...
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...
By James Willsher (Business Weekly) Russian technology clusters and startups are looking to strengthen links with Cambridge, it emerged at Moscow’s Open Innovations forum held last week. Hundreds of Russian startups, state-backed companies and regional...
Mr. Alexander Povalko, Vice-Minister of Education and Science & Technology in the Government of Russian Federation called on Dr. Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences, MoS in Prime Minister's...
Last week, Intel signed a strategic collaboration agreement with the Association of Technoparks in the field of High Technologies, a nonprofit partnership created in 2011 to implement the Russian government’s strategy for innovative development. ...
The pace of change in Russia appears slow at the moment. Ongoing events in the Crimea suggest an inward-looking country that has no ear for global opinion and is set on acting like the angry Soviet bear that we know from the Cold War. The perception,...
As the political situation in Russia become more uncertain with the international community, there was a decision to be made to go to Russia and attend the Startup Village event, organized by SKOLKOVO. After a few deliberations with people in the region...
More than fifteen multinatio- nal companies have opened R&D centres in Russia over the last ten years, benefitting from high-skilled labour force and trading opportunities on the domestic market. More recently political momentum has been getting behind...
Technology is big business. It’s shaping the way we work, live, play and spend, so it’s no surprise that governments all over the world are clamouring to invest and support the ‘next big thing’. The rewards are tangible. For...
Leading Network of Online News for the Electronics Design- and Manufacturing Supply Chain has published a general overview of Skolkovo, asking management team about it past, present and future. “We cannot delay this any longer. We must embark on...
On September 17 in Boston and September 19-20 in Santa-Clara, Silicon Valley, 65 Russian start-ups will present their projects to American investors at a conference entitled Russian Innovation Week (RIW). The conference, which is being held for the second...
The Nature magazine published an article written by a group of authors led by Yuri V.Spritz (Skoltech) on the Earth's radiation belts. The results of their study throw light upon the evolution of ultrarelativistic electrons. Radiation in space...
Since its inception in 2010, the Skolkovo Foundation has faced criticism and accusations of money mismanagement and fraud, but its worst days may be behind it after a recent cash boost from the Russian Government. The recent relationship between the...
Skolkovo Innovation Centre is to expect intensive developement. To that end, RUB 125.2 billion will be allocated from the 2020 federal budget. The government’s resolution introduced relevant amendments to the governmental Economic Development and...
Triaxes Vision , an innovative company from Tomsk, in cooperation with Italian Sisvel Technology, are getting ready to make a presentation in Amsterdam, at IBC-2012 trade show, a new format of Universal 3D TV broadcast. As NIA Tomsk news agency found...
The Russian premier Dmitry Medvedev during his working trip to St. Petersburg on September, 1 visited a laboratory of the “ RRT ” Ltd. Company. The company develops so called “PRIS” technologies of oil refining and currently works on...
Microsoft and the Skolkovo Foundation signed an agreement on the creation of Microsoft’s Research and Development Center at the Skolkovo technopark to cooperate on Cloud architectures. Conor Lenihan, Skolkovo Foundation Vice President for international...
As one drives up to the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology – the key node of the suburban Moscow innovation hub referred to as Russia’s Silicon Valley – the multicolored building that emerges looks like a modern art project straight...
Transcript of the meeting: D. Medvedev: Greetings from the State Duma. There is not much interest in your project here at the State Duma; there are precedents of much more interest to a project. How are you doing? I recently was at a conference on your premises...
Live on Channel One, Russia 1 and Russia 24 and on radio stations Mayak, Vesti FM and Radio Russia, the special program "Direct Line with Vladimir Putin" aired. As part of the program the president answered more than 85 questions from...
Today Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev visited Skolkovo Innovation Center and was very pleased by the innovative R&D and projects displayed there, informs Interfax. During his visit the Prime Minister attended the hall where medical issues were discussed...
The Scientific and Technical Center of the JSC TATNEFT will be located in "Skolkovo" Research and Technology Park ( Technopark ). The ceremony of signing the Agreement on the establishment and location of the STC of TATNEFT in the Technical Center...