For many Russian tech startups, the colossal U.S. market with its abundance of investors seems like the promised land. The U.S. also happens to be the Skolkovo Foundation’s most active partner, the foundation’s president Victor Vekselberg told foreign...
“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow,” the Roman poet Ovid wrote two millennia ago. The world may have changed a lot since...
We all want to get the most out of our money, but most of us can’t afford to take large risks with our savings, and many have no savings at all, or are in the red. An estimated 40 million Russians are in debt , having borrowed 11 trillion rubles ($184...
Галина Балашова не привыкла ни к публичным выступлениям, ни к вниманию к своей персоне. Во время лекции в Технопарке «Сколково» она то и дело обращалась к рукописному конспекту с тезисами своего повествования и смущенно улыбалась, когда аудитория...
Few knew of Galina Balashova's remarkable work on the Soviet space programme until a few years ago. "By day I worked on renovating buildings, by night I designed the inside of spaceships,” she says. Galina Balashova, left, presenting her...
Технологические достижения последнего времени и цифровизация окружающего мира кардинально изменили сферу промышленного дизайна. Появился даже такой термин, как slow design (по аналогии со slow cooking); уже не только производители, а потребители получают все...
The occasions when it’s justifiable to trot out the well-worn opening lines of Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” (“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”) are few and far between, but their...
For any Russian company with international aspirations, the Asian markets are the modern Klondike - and not just because strained relations with the West have made it more difficult for some Russian enterprises to do business there. Asia will be the future...
“The Shaolin Temple itself is a 1,500-year-old startup,” unexpectedly declares Shi Xing Mi, a Shaolin monk dressed in a mustard-coloured martial arts outfit. “It may sound like an oxymoron, but in Shaolin culture, being a startup is not a...
Nineteen years after he went into space, Dr. Reinhold Ewald still can’t eat broccoli. “It was the most mineral-rich vegetable available in space, and I had to eat tons of it,” the German astronaut recalled with laughter as he gave a lecture...
The Moon Village – a permanent lunar base station – should be a truly international affair, and Russian villagers are more than welcome, European Space Agency director general Johann-Dietrich Woerner told professors and students of the Skolkovo...
«В том, что касается консерватизма при продвижении на рынок новых технологических решений, хуже медиков могут быть только металлурги». Таким неожиданным, с учетом контекста, наблюдением проректор по науке и инновациям Национального исследовательского...
Improvements in this version of Startup Village: Record crowds, new setting, creative catering. Like the leading smartphone apps, Startup Village is constantly evolving. The third edition of Russia and Eastern Europe’s biggest startup event is no...
One of the world’s leading authorities on personal robots has delivered two lectures at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, promoting his hypothesis that the robot society of the future may come sooner than we think. Professor Hiroshi...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan – As part of the March 19-20 Startup Tour in Kazakhstan’s second city, Skolkovo’s startup guru Pekka Viljakainen gave a master-class on initiating a high-tech business. During the Finn’s 35-minute presentation at the...
A key message that Skolkovo transmits its startups is the need to expand into new territories. Now it is leading by example: This week, Russia’s biggest innovations roadshow ventures abroad for the first time in its five-year history. Almaty - the...
The most creative period in the academic year of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology kicked off Tuesday as students ditched their textbooks to learn everything from snowboarding to stock trading. The independent studies period (ISP) window is...
Как заставить робота двигаться, работать совместно с людьми, или, скажем, читать? На каком этапе находится развитие робототехники и что сегодня умеют роботы, созданные в самых известных и продвинутых лабораториях мира? Наконец, какие есть пути для вывода очередной...
В Сколковском институте науки и технологий с 26 по 28 мая работает крупнейший в нашей стране научный симпозиум по проблематике развития биомедицины в России и в мире «Терапия будущего». «Терапия будущего» - первое знаковое иинтеграционное...