The Chinese manufacturer has purchased the patents and hired the team of designers from Vocord Company, a current resident of the IT cluster of the Skolkovo Foundation. The deal was confirmed to Sk.ru by Vocord. Neither party would disclose the cost of...
Zhai Lixin, head of Zhongguancun, China's largest and oldest national science and technology park, visited the Skolkovo Innovation Center. Zhongguancun and Skolkovo have been cooperating since 2012, when a cooperation agreement was first signed. The...
The Chinese manufacturer purchased the patents and hired the team of designers of Vocord Company, resident of the IT cluster of the Skolkovo Foundation. The deal was confirmed to Sk.ru by Vocord. The parties will not disclose the price of the deal. The...
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...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed a raft of agreements with both Russian and international companies and venture funds at the Open Innovations forum this week. Skolkovo's chairman of the board Igor Drozdov (left) and Russian Post's Nikolai Podguzov...
Seven Skolkovo resident startups are currently presenting their innovative mobile tech products and solutions at Mobile World Congress Shanghai , which opened Wednesday and runs through June 29. Seven Skolkovo startups are taking part in this year's...
Long before he became one of the world’s richest men, Jack Ma applied for a job at KFC when it opened in China. Out of 24 applicants, all were accepted – except Ma, the business magnate himself has said. Now a popular Chinese joke has it that decades...
Skolkovo resident startup ExoAtlet , which makes rehabilitation exoskeletons that help disabled people to walk again, has raised $5 million in investment to expand its business to Europe and beyond. The funding is being provided by the Korean company Cosmo...
When tech startups are being considered for resident status at the Skolkovo innovation centre, one of the conditions for acceptance is that their product or service must have potential for export. Skolkovo’s mission is not import substitution; on the...
The proximity of Vladivostok to Asia is palpable throughout the port city in Russia’s Far East, from the abundance of right-hand drive cars imported from Japan – a growing number of them electric – and currency exchange points displaying rates...
VLADIVOSTOK — On his way back to Moscow from a tour of the United States in 1959, Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev stopped off in Russia’s Far Eastern port city of Vladivostok. Inspired by what he had just seen in America and the basic parallels between...
From 3 to 5 November 2016 in the city Wuhan, Hubei Province, held an International Exhibition and Optoelectronics Forum "China Optical Valley» Optic Valley of China International Optoelectronic Exposition and Forum (OVC Expo 2016). The OVC EXPO is...
The newly launched $100-billion Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the Belt andRoad Initiative - two ambitious projects spearheaded by the nation - will provide the impetus forglobal economic growth in a likely challenging 2016. The optimism...
On May 22, 2013, a delegation from the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Mission in Europe (headquartered in London) visited Technopark “Skolkovo”, where it represented interests of Hong Kong Science Park. The delegation attended a presentation about...
An agreement between the Skolkovo Foundation and Zhongguancun Science Park (Z-Park) is to be signed during the state visit of President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to China on 5 June 2012. President of the Skolkovo Foundation Viktor Vekselberg...
From 22 to 25 October there took place a business mission of the Skolkovo Foundation delegation to Beijing together with the companies – participants of the Skolkovo project. For the companies who participated in the trip, there were organized...