The finalists of a Boeing-backed competition to design a passenger-carrying flying machine of the future are getting ready to exhibit their entries after years in development. The 'GoFly' competition this month is comprised of 850 teams from 130...
Creators of a new machine-learning drug discovery platform Insilico Medicine has inked a dual-program drug discovery deal with Jiangsu Chia Tai Fenghai Pharmaceutical (CTFH) worth up to $200 million. Insilico CEO Alex Zhavoronkov. Why it matters...
It’s Friday, so why not watch some good old-fashioned drone-powered graffiti? A design firm in Italy has put together a lovely little show that collected sketches from the art community and put them all together in a giant mural, painted over 12 hours...
Aging doubles your risks of chronic diseases every 8 years and there are genes responsible for that The global population aged 60 or over is growing faster than all younger age groups and faces the tide of chronic diseases threatening their quality of...
Peter Fedichev of Skolkovo resident Gero has written a paper on extending human life that was published in the Frontiers in Genetics journal. Age is the most important single factor associated with chronic diseases and ultimately, death. The mortality rate...
Bob Ambrogi, a Massachusetts lawyer and journalist, interviewed Skolkovo's head of legaltech, Anton Pronin, and legaltech expert Holger Zscheyge at the recent Skolkovo LegalTech event. To listen to the interviews, visit www.lawsitesblog.com, where they...
Cyrillic doesn't do AI any favors, writes Robert Ambrogi , a Massachusetts lawyer and journalist who attended Skolkovo LegalTech earlier this month. On a visit to Moscow last week, I was surprised by what I discovered — a healthy legal technology...
China is focusing on its innovation-driven development strategy, and will maintain the high level of cooperation in the field of high-tech industry with Russia, senior officials said during the second China-Russian Innovation Talk on Tuesday in Moscow. ...
Rebecca A. Fannin, an editor, author and expert on global innovation and investment trends, shares her impressions of the Open Innovations forum with Forbes.com. At the Open Innovations Forum this week in Moscow, Russia and China linked up to further boost...
Paul Goncharoff writes about Russia’s blockchain industry and regulatory framework after attending an event devoted to Russia’s regulatory sandbox organised by the central bank together with the Skolkovo Foundation. The event was attended...
A previously unknown ring of Russian-speaking hackers has stolen as much as $10 million from U.S. and Russian banks in the last 18 months, Skolkovo resident cybercrime investigators Group-IB told Bloomberg . Image: Group-IB. The MoneyTaker group...
There has been a history of mistrust between Russia and the West for many years, and 2017 has been no exception. While I continue to be dumbfounded by some of the things each side believes about each other, one should not be surprised when so much of what is...
In October 1917 Russia seized control of its own future with a revolution. Exactly one century later, again in October, the country is set to take part in another momentous event, this time concerning innovation. This was the key word at the forum Open Innovations...
Fedor Antonov is chief executive officer (CEO) of Russian additive manufacturing (AM) firm Anisoprint , a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation's nuclear and new industrial technologies cluster. In this article for Disruptive magazine , he presents his vision...
Watch Skolkovo startups exhibiting at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York on May 16 present their cutting-edge tech solutions to TechCrunch's Mike Butcher in this video . Click on the image to watch the video.
Watts , a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation's energy cluster that makes modular energy storage and management systems, was featured in TechCrunch this week after exhibiting at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York, together with nine other Skolkovo startups...
Skolkovo resident PlayKey , whose technology allows gamers to play the most up-to-date games on outdated computers, was featured in TechCrunch this week after exhibiting at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York, together with nine other Skolkovo startups . What...
Rocket science is hard. But bureaucratic red tape and a conservative investment climate make the almost impossible even harder, writes Matthew Bodner in a feature story on Lin Industrial, a resident startup of Skolkovo's space cluster, in The Moscow Times...
Skolkovo resident Apis Cor , which recently printed a house in Russia for just $10,000, has been featured on the New Atlas tech website. The house was built using a 3D printer in just 24 hours, amid the freezing Russian winter. Photo: Apis Cor. ...
Skolkovo resident HUDWAY was out in full force at the CES consumer electronics tradeshow in Las Vegas earlier this month, where the company's innovative accessory for turning drivers' smartphones into a head-up display, showing road information on the...
There was a definite change of tone at SatComRus 2016 where the Internet of Things (IoT) and how it could impact the Russian space market was the main theme, writes Mark Holmes in an article published in Via Satellite magazine. In a departure from previous...
The tech ecosystem isn’t just about “Uber for X” and e-commerce startups anymore: it’s about space as well, Valery Komissarov, an analyst at the Skolkovo Foundation’s space cluster, wrote in a recent blogpost for Arctic Startup...
Russia’s head-start in space exploration has earned them a permanent legacy, to the point that astronauts going to the International Space Station (ISS) are still required to know Russian . This legacy spawned a generation of Russian spacetech startups...
Hello World’s host Ashlee Vance traveled to Moscow to meet Ilya Sachkov and check out his company, Group-IB, a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation that specializes in studying the ways of the Russian hacker. It was a rare glimpse into the heart of Russia’s...
Both nations see huge potential to develop expanding scientific and tech centers, ChinaDaily reported on November 14, following a visit to Moscow the week before by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in which he met with President Vladimir Putin. Russian President...