When experienced test pilots and cosmonauts at the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation started building a wooden spacecraft, complete with an interior made out of cardboard boxes, they quickly attracted the mirth of their colleagues. “We called it...
“Ugly aeroplanes don’t fly,” the famed Soviet aircraft designer Andrei Tupolev is often quoted as saying. This is the unofficial motto of the upcoming Days of Industrial Design festival at the Skolkovo innovation city, according to its...
The annual International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP) conference will be held in Russia for the first time next week, and it will be bigger than it’s ever been. Representatives of science parks and innovation centres...