A ceremony at Skolkovo on Tuesday saw one of the world’s leading steel pipeline producers lay the first stone in the construction of a new research center at the innovations hub. Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg, left, and TMK chairman Dmitry...
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says Skolkovo is starting to produce tangible results, despite being less than five years old. From left: Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg, his advisor Pekka Viljakainen, and Prime Minister Medvedev. Photo: sk.ru ...
Home security firm Graviton has destroyed the field to win the 2015 Startup Village pitch competition, impressing the judges with its sensor-based system to win the 3 million ruble prize and an invitation to become a Skolkovo resident. Graviton's...
Skolkovo’s $200 million deal with Cybernaut to stimulate Russian-Chinese innovation won prominent coverage in the world's media this week, with references to “a big move for Sino-Russian economic relations” that may have “a significant...
В рамках третьей международной конференции Skolkovo Robotics прошла инвестиционная питч-сессия робототехнических проектов, организованная Инвестиционной службой Фонда «Сколково» совместно с Робоцентром «Сколково». Послушать презентации...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - It’s springtime in downtown Almaty, though winter is blowing its last frigid gusts off the snowy peaks of the Zailiyskiy Alatau mountain range and around the city's skyscrapers and Soviet-built housing blocks. At a downtown...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - The Kazakh stage of the Startup Tour concluded on Friday with several innovations winning a place at the Startup Village in June and, perhaps more significantly, the foundations put in place for of a new era of high-tech cooperation between...
Angel investors may earn their nickname in the noble quest to rescue cash-starved startups, but, as revealed in a recent meeting of the Skolkovo Business Angels Club, they can be positively fiendish in forcing them to justify their salvation. The business...
Thirty-seven companies will battle for a place at Startup Village this week, when the Russian Startup Tour makes its fifth stop on the 12-stage trip in Yekaterinburg. The Yekaterinburg Expo Center. Photo: www.ekaterinburgexpo.ru Russia’s fourth...
More than 140 startups registered an interest to take part in the Kazan stage of the Russian Startup Tour, the fourth stop on the innovations roadshow that runs Tuesday and Wednesday in the Tatarstan capital. The Kazan Kremlin. Photo: flickr The...
Investors are ready to plow up to $20 million into joint startup projects between India and Russia, Skolkovo vice president Igor Bogachev told the TASS news agency Friday. “At Skolkovo alone we have 70 registered venture funds that want to invest in...
At a summit between one of Russia’s leading inventors and the country’s top cardiologist, a curious parallel emerged. Microelectronics specialist Martyn Nunuparov wanted to produce a pacemaker that requires no battery, but he had little knowledge...
In the dying snow flurries of 2014, as the Vnukovo plane trails dissipate silently into the Moscow sky, the Skolkovo Foundation can look back upon an eventful, challenging and ultimately successful year from its new, permanent home. Snow settles at Skolkovo...
Skolkovo Foundation Council co-chairman Craig Barrett voiced confidence on Thursday that the project to diversify Russia’s economy would far outlive the current political troubles. Barrett, Intel chairman until 2009, spoke at the final quarterly meeting...
HELSINKI, Finland - The Skolkovo stand at Slush 2014 featured so many resident companies that they weren’t all able to exhibit their innovations simultaneously. A handful of the total 51 startups – out to woo the wealthy investors milling around...
The Skolkovo Foundation has agreed to issue a grant to a resident of its space and telecoms cluster to develop technology that could see airships take to the skies once more. Atlant, the R&D spinoff of Russia’s only airship constructor Avgur, has...