En unas tierras agrícolas, Rusia está construyendo su versión de 'Silicon Valley': el Centro de Innovación Skolkovo, con el apoyo de capitales privados. Pero, ¿funcionará? Skolkovo fue una inciativa del...
A rendering of the SkTech graduate school at Skolkovo. The building that looks like a book propped open on its covers is the main hall. It sits between two rings of classroom and research facilities. In the summer of 2014, the Skolkovo Innovation Center...
THE guards at the gate kept your correspondent waiting for half an hour. The taxi driver didn’t have the right papers, apparently. “We know that Russia’s bureaucracy is a big problem. That’s part of what we want to solve,” says...
Will a new tech innovation hub rise on the outskirts of Moscow? The Russian government is dropping billions--and hiring Cisco--to power their own innovation hub. Tomorrow’s Silicon Valley may not be in California, or even the U.S. It might be in...
In the past few years, Russian investors have shaken up Silicon Valley, putting eye-popping amounts into companies like Facebook and making bold plans for a rival technology hub on the outskirts of Moscow. Sasha Johnson is at the tip of the spear. The...