A year ago, on December 14th 2010, the President of the Skolkovo Foundation Viktor Vekselberg, during the award for the first residents of the Innovation Centre, said: "Your success will determine the success of the project Skolkovo!"
A year later Skolkovo has about 300 residents from different regions of the country, including Moscow and St. Petersburg, Tomsk, Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Kazan, Krasnoyarsk, Tyumen. These are two dozen research centres that will employ around a thousand people. There is support for start-ups, as well as partnerships with leading global companies: Cisco, Microsoft, Siemens, Intel, SAP, IBM and many others. For the project participants this means the following: unique technological and economic conditions, special academic and social environment created for the development of new innovative technologies. More than 60 have been issued grants for over $5 billion roubles. There is highly qualified training from leading experts in the field of science, education and finance.
Skolkovo is an innovative community of Russia, formed by the public, businesses and state institutions, whose effective interaction determines how soon the country's scientific potential will be transformed into a technological breakthrough. We have made the first steps, and today, a year later, we can say with absolute certainty: innovation is happening here in Skolkovo!