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...
HELSINKI, Finland – The warm welcome meted out to the Skolkovo delegation at Europe’s biggest startup conference last week shows that Russia is becoming a key player on the international tech scene, but the organization can’t rest on its laurels...
HELSINKI, Finland - The Skolkovo stand at Slush 2014 featured so many resident companies that they weren’t all able to exhibit their innovations simultaneously. A handful of the total 51 startups – out to woo the wealthy investors milling around...
The mission to raise awareness in Skolkovo got a boost on Wednesday with a snappy speech from strategy director Ekaterina Inozemtseva at Europe’s biggest startup conference, Slush 2014. Speaking in front of hundreds of potential investors and company...
HELSINKI, Finland - The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology has struck up a student exchange program with Aalto University in Finland, Skoltech vice president Alexei Sitnikov told sk.ru. The agreement between the two innovation-based universities...
HELSINKI, Finland - Russia’s first space entrepreneur says it’s judgment day for his country’s startup industry. Speaking to sk.ru on the sidelines of Europe’s biggest tech conference, Slush 2014 in Helsinki, Mikhail Kokorich said...
HELSINKI, Finland - Russia’s chief proponents of innovation took to the silver stage Tuesday at Slush 2014, Europe’s biggest startup conference, to share the secrets of entering the Russian market. From left: Galitsky, Viljakainen, Dvorkovich...
HELSINKI, Finland - The finances are in place to guarantee the Skolkovo Innovation Center will be completed on schedule, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich told sk.ru on Tuesday. Speaking on the sidelines of Slush 2014, Europe’s biggest...
HELSINKI, Finland - Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich says his country has something to learn from the Finnish innovation process. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. Photo: sk.ru Dvorkovich leads Russia’s efforts...
HELSINKI, Finland - In a high-tech flurry of lasers and dry ice, Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb raised the curtain on Europe’s largest conference on the startup industry on Tuesday, with Skolkovo’s biggest ever delegation of 53 companies...
HELSINKI, Finland - While many of Slush’s 10,000 attendees were partying into the night at the grand opening of Europe’s biggest startup conference on Monday night, Skolkovo’s top startups were cramming ahead of a potentially life-changing...
Skolkovo is sending a record 53 resident companies to Helsinki for Slush 2014, tripling its presence at Europe’s biggest startup conference in comparison to previous years. Slush takes place on November 18-19 in the Finnish capital and brings together...
Top managers of the Skolkovo Foundation sat on a jury that viewed pitches made at the Slush, the European startup mega-conference, which was held once again in Helsinki. After reviewing dozens of global startup projects, including those made by Skolkovo residents...
The HemaCore Company, a resident of the Biomedical Cluster of Skolkovo Foundation – HemaCore Labs, was introduced to European investors and innovation market participants on the main stage of the Slush. HemaCore was the only company from Russia...
Interview with Pekka Viljakainen, adviser to the President of the Skolkovo Foundation, who talks on the SLUSH, a major European conference for startups, to take place in November in Helsinki, as well as on the role of Finland in development of international...
Many European companies have failed to generate organic growth. It’s not that growth isn’t important or that there isn’t any money to invest. The problem is that the methods used to guide a new innovation down the road from just an idea into...
On November, 18-23, company’s chief officers Olga Nikitina and Alexey Bersenev within a Skolkovo delegation visited Nokia birthplace in Salo and SLUSH event in Helsinki. Business trip to Finland appeared to be useful in terms of finding new business contacts...
Pekka has made a career out of facilitating the communication between business executives and technical teams, before at Tieto International and most recently at Skolkovo. Writing a bestseller on leadership and earning the nickname "Bulldozer" on...
The prime-minister of the Republic of Finland Jurki Katainen visited the Skolkovo Foundation exposition at the European startups forum Slush . The Skolkovo representatives told Mr. Katainen about technologies, represented at the forum, plans of development...
A mega event is to take place in May this year in the Hypercube at Skolkovo and on the territory around the building The name of the event, where around 2,500 thousands participants, more than a thousand of them are startuppers are coming, is The Startup Village...
Startup Sauna Warmup is a project of a famous Scandinavian business accelerator to be held at the Skolkovo Technopark March 14 in the park’s conference hall. The "warmup" consists of 3-minute pitch sessions in English and talks with mentors...
Bulldozer@ Skolkovo #10: In a Sauna (сауна) Blog of Pekka Viljakainen , advisor to the president of the Foundation and head of Commercialization project office, who was the main driving force behind the Skolkovo participation in the Slush Forum in Helsinki...
Residents, which took part in the Slush forum , were able to work out at the on-site pitches, create their video presentations in English, as well as to see how their colleagues deal with international investors. Maxim Uvarov, director of the "Health"...
The agreement will help the technopark to reach a synergy with the Finnish Startup Sauna, which is the organizer of the Slush forum . It will also help the technopark to get an access to thousands of European start-uppers, who work together with this well-known...