The Skolkovo Foundation has won the right to host next year’s Asian Science Park Association (ASPA) conference in Russia’s Far Eastern city of Vladivostok. The decision to hold next year’s event at the brand new campus of the Far Eastern...
The Open Innovations forum kicked off on Monday morning at the Skolkovo innovation centre, attracting an estimated 18,000 people from all over the world to Russia’s biggest conference and exhibition devoted to homegrown innovative tech solutions. ...
The Skolkovo innovation city is gearing up to host the biggest Open Innovations forum that Russia has yet seen on October 16-18, featuring tech stars, government representatives, entrepreneurs, businesspeople and futurologists from around the world. International...
A new technopark opened its doors in Russia’s Far East port of Vladivostok on Wednesday, with the aim of fostering tech entrepreneurship and startups there with support from the Skolkovo Foundation. Victor Vekselberg, Olga Vasilyeva and Nikita Anisimov...
Gifted schoolchildren from the Urals cities of Perm and Yekaterinburg visited the Skolkovo innovation city on Friday to see some of the technologies being developed here and to learn about a new scholarship being launched for Russian students to study at the...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, at whose initiative the Skolkovo innovation city outside Moscow was founded in 2010, praised the project’s evolution at a meeting of the Skolkovo Foundation’s board of trustees on Wednesday. “I’d...
The Skolkovo Foundation and its resident startups signed a raft of agreements with major commercial companies during the annual Skolkovo Startup Village on June 6-7. On the first day of the outdoor event for tech entrepreneurs and investors from around the...
Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg called on Moscow’s foreign diplomats to make full use of the opportunities offered to international companies by the Skolkovo innovation city on Wednesday. Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg...
The fifth annual Startup Village, a giant open-air event for hi-tech entrepreneurs and investors, opened Tuesday at the Skolkovo innovation city with the signing of two key agreements. Philips' Henk de Jong brandishes the symbolic key given to him...
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) unveiled its Center for Hydrocarbon Recovery’s new state-of-the-art laboratory on June 6 during the annual Startup Village, when Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich and Skolkovo Foundation...
A joint scientific conference organised by the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) kicked off at the Skolkovo innovation centre on Tuesday, marking the biggest joint event hosted by Skoltech...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed two agreements on Thursday aimed at providing the authorities responsible for Russia’s roads with hi-tech solutions designed by the foundation’s resident startups. Victor Vekselberg (left) and Roman Starovoit...
Half of all Russian-origin innovative pharmaceuticals are developed by Skolkovo Foundation startups, Kirill Kaem, head of the organisation’s biomed cluster, told a meeting of the foundation’s council on Monday evening. Of about 1,400 pharmaceuticals...
Just four months after Cherkizovo Group, one of Russia’s biggest meat producers, signed an agreement with the Skolkovo Technopark to set up an agrotech accelerator there, the company has already identified a potential unicorn among Skolkovo startups....
The German state of Bavaria’s minister president visited the Skolkovo innovation city Friday at the head of a delegation of representatives of Bavarian business to identify areas of cooperation between the two innovations hubs. Skolkovo Foundation...
Skolkovo resident startup GeoSteering Technologies , the maker of “smart drilling” software for use at oil and gas production facilities, signed an agreement with the government of the Tyumen region at the Sochi 2017 Russian Investment Forum this...
Senators from the Federation Council, the Russian parliament’s upper chamber, visited the Skolkovo innovation city on Tuesday to hold an external committee meeting and tour the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ). The subcommittee...
The Skolkovo innovation centre graduated to the status of a true city on Tuesday with the arrival of its first residents, who received the keys to their brand new homes at a celebratory housewarming event. Two of Skolkovo's youngest new residents...
Skolkovo is taking on its final shape as an innovation city, its president Victor Vekselberg said at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday. Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg spoke to Rossia-24 during the World Economic Forum. ...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed a strategic business cooperation agreement with the Russian division of Japan’s Panasonic Corporation during a state visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the island nation on Friday. Skolkovo vice president...
Russia’s wealth of fossil fuel resources has inevitably made it easy for the country to ignore renewable energy sources (RES). In recent years, however, several government initiatives have been launched to develop this sector, and at the REENCON-21 International...
The Skolkovo Foundation will set up three venture capital funds to provide additional sources of investment for startups, the foundation’s president Victor Vekselberg said Friday at the Open Innovations forum. Skolkovo Foundation president Victor...
Geopolitical tensions will one day be in the past, but the future lies in innovations, Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg told a packed audience of the foundation’s startups on the third and final day of the Open Innovations forum Friday...
Tech entrepreneurs, scientists, representatives of international companies and governments, and investors from all over the world flocked to the Skolkovo innovation centre on Wednesday for the first day of the annual Open Innovations forum. Skolkovo's...
The future of the Skolkovo Foundation looks “very positive,” its president Victor Vekselberg told a meeting of the foundation’s council on Thursday. Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg addressing the council meeting on Thursday...