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...
Few countries in the world can benefit from telemedicine and the remote diagnosis and monitoring services it offers as much as Russia, with its enormous territory and multitude of sparsely populated and hard to reach areas. Yet currently, digital healthcare...
“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...
«Когда б вы знали, из какого сора…» Ахматовские строки применительно к работе голландского дизайн-бюро THE NEW RAW следует воспринимать буквально. Из пластикового мусора дизайнеры посредством 3D-печати создают городскую среду. Одним из...
No one doubts the need for companies to stay innovative, no matter how big and successful they might be right now. But if anyone needs a reminder of why this is important, there is always the cautionary tale of Kodak, the U.S. company that dominated the photography...
As Moscow prepares to host up to one million football fans for the upcoming FIFA World Cup , one Skolkovo resident startup is set to offer fans and Muscovites alike a new form of transport convenient for covering the so-called last mile: kick scooters for rent...
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...
The Skolkovo innovation city welcomed a large delegation from the Belgian city of Antwerp this week, at which the two sides established areas of cooperation and one Skolkovo startup won the chance to launch pilot projects at Antwerp companies. The 100...
Not so long ago, a prostate cancer operation would cost the patient 1.5 litres of blood and entail a two-week stay in hospital. Now the average patient loses just 20 millilitres of blood, and three days in hospital are usually sufficient. This drastic change...
The Skolkovo Technopark is once again getting ready to be taken over by robots for its annual Skolkovo Robotics Forum , which attracts robots – and the humans who make them – from all over the globe. As in previous years, Skolkovo Robotics...
“AI will not replace lawyers, but will enhance connections to data beyond the abilities of a human mind. And data can win cases,” believes Michael Lew, founder of LegalComet, a legal tech advisory service based in Singapore. Michael Lew, founder...
Сколковская компания «Нетология», начинавшая пять лет назад как маленький «подвальный» стартап, а ныне оцениваемая в 60 млн долларов, проводит в иннограде 20-21 апреля масштабную практическую конференцию по онлайн-образованию EdmarketConf...
Members of the Skolkovo Foundation council discussed plans for the second stage of the giant Skolkovo Technopark at their quarterly meeting on Thursday. The first stage of the Technopark was opened in January 2017, having been funded by the foundation. The...
На состоявшемся 15 марта заседании Совета Фонда был рассмотрен вопрос о проектировании второй очереди Технопарка «Сколково». Нынешнее здание Технопарка, крупнейшего в Восточной Европе (первая очередь), было открыто в январе 2017 года. На сегодня...
Energy, space, ICT and smart city technologies are all areas in which Egypt could join forces with the Skolkovo Foundation, Egyptian Ambassador to Russia Ihab Nasr said during a visit to the Skolkovo innovation city on Monday. Egyptian Ambassador Ihab...
When the Kursk region-based agricultural enterprise Agrofirma Rylskaya noticed that the costs of their sugar beet production were constantly rising, with no corresponding increase in yield, they turned to an innovative tech startup. Roboprob , a resident startup...
One of the best known landmarks in the Russian city of Perm is a modern art installation on the bank of the vast River Kama that consists of four Russian words built out of large red letters fixed to the embankment: Schastye ne za gorami. The literal meaning...
The Japanese market does not have the reputation of an easy place to do business for foreign companies. But with its high-income, tech-savvy population, it is a dream for many innovative businesses, and neighbouring Russia is no exception. To help Russian hi...
A new lab opened at the Skolkovo Technopark on Wednesday that looks set to drastically improve the diagnosis of cancer patients across Russia. Russia’s first digital lab was opened by UNIM , a resident of Skolkovo’s biomed cluster that uses...
2017 has been another packed year for the Skolkovo innovation city. The last year saw the Skolkovo Foundation’s total number of resident startups reach about 1,800, with the first of them moving into the newly finished Skolkovo Technopark at the beginning...
Skolkovo took its cooperation with one of Europe’s biggest tech startup nations to a new level this week, with the visit of the French ambassador to the innovation city and the signing of a memorandum of understanding with two French business organisations...
Новый посол Франции в РФ мадам Сильви Берманн посетила Фонд «Сколково» вместе с группой дипломатов из французского МИД. Это произошло на следующий день после того, как «Сколково» подписал меморандум о взаимопонимании с Business France...
There is one topic that seems guaranteed to create a traffic jam along the usually uncongested road leading to the Skolkovo innovation centre, and that topic is blockchain and cryptocurrencies. This week, bitcoin approached a value per coin of $10,000, and...
Skolkovo resident ExoAtlet , the inventor of rehabilitation exoskeletons that help disabled people to walk again, has set its sights for expansion on Japan, where it is setting up a joint venture with its South Korean partners and investors. Dennis Ahn...
While recycling, a rejection of plastic bags and other eco-friendly initiatives are now a way of life in many European countries, Russia – the biggest country in the world – lags woefully behind in this area. This year was declared the Year of Ecology...