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...
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...
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"...
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...
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...
15 residents of the Skolkovo’s Cleantech cluster made their pitch presentations during the Slush forum . Investors were quite interested, asking different questions, demonstrating good feedback and interest. As the head of the Cluster Vasily Belov...
As Yekaterina Pankratova, head of marketing for the Technopark Skolkvovo said, one of the target audience of pitches are Finish startups themselves. Skolkovo prepared a special package for them, called “Go Skolkovo!” “Weve already found...
Slush opened with welcome speeches of industry leaders, which gathered a huge audience of startuppers. Among them was Jason Chein, one of Amazon.com heads, in charge of GameCircle unit. Talking to startuppers, among them a lot from Russia, Jason told...
On November 22, the Slush Forum was held in Helsinki, Finland, gathering in a cozy chamber the residents of Skolkovo Foundation, Finnish business angels, serial entrepreneurs and local startups. The leading co-organizers of this event were Veijo Hytti...
The Skolkovo Technopark organized the first business visit to Finland for 20 startup companies, residents of Skolkovo. On November 18-20, representatives of these companies visited the city of Salo, Finland – the home city of Nokia. Salo is one of the...
Vienna, 29-31 October 2012 The Pioneers Festival The Skolkovo Foundation will participate in the “Pioneers Festival”, the key autumn event of the European start-up community, which will take place at the Hoffburg Palace, in the center of Vienna...