Four years after the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) was founded, the startup university has finally moved into its own purpose-built campus, and has succeeded in luring accomplished Russian diaspora scientists back to Russia after periods...
By Diogo Costa Today, the automotive market is undergoing through some important changes and improvements, mainly regarding its technological aspect. Cars are getting more and more pumped with high-end technology like gadgets and new functionalities, not...
The technology incubation campus outside Moscow has retooled itself in the face of challenging times and a changing political scene. John Tefft, the U.S. ambassador to Russia, at Startup Village. Photo:sk.ru John Tefft, the U.S. ambassaor to Russia...
By Fu Jing in Moscow and Liu Jia in Brussels Russia and China are keen to extend their close relationship from strategic cooperation and energy projects to advanced technology such as nano and space sectors, which can enrich China's proposals of...
Russia’s Skolkovo Foundation and Chinese Cybernaut Investment Group signed a deal setting up a joint venture fund worth $200 million, the companies stated in a joint press release. BEIJING (Sputnik) – The agreement aims to create a joint Russian...
Russia and China partner on $200 million venture fund, incubator for Russian tech companies Their goal? Increased cooperation to develop technology that benefits both of them. The United States isn’t the only place...
First announced in 2009 by then-President Dmitry Medvedev, the Skolkovo Foundation is charged with handling the creation of the Skolkovo Innovation Center. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. Photo: sk.ru Russia's Skolkovo Foundation...
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...
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) was recently founded in cooperation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Almost half of first year students are already involved in startups. Edward Crawley, President of Skoltech...
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. ...