• Protecting intellectual property in an open source world

    How can traditional intellectual property protection institutions such as patents continue to function in a world where new technologies are developed and go out-of-date in the space of a few months, if patents can take five years to obtain? If a robot creates...

    01 February, 18:05 Collinson Shura
  • LegalTech event: robots are no match for lawyers – yet

    For centuries, ambitious young people have gone into law believing they would never be in want of work: the world will always need lawyers, so the thinking went. In the 21 st century, amid growing predictions that many human jobs will soon be outsourced to...

    01 December, 17:52 Collinson Shura
  • Lawyers vs. artificial intelligence: Skolkovo to host LegalTech forum

    A proposal sent to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to use artificial intelligence to improve Russia’s legal system made the headlines this week, but this process is in fact already underway. Robot-lawyers, the use of blockchain to create smart contracts...

    15 November, 15:28 Collinson Shura
  • Морская энергетика

    Морская энергетика может решить проблемы электроснабжения нефте-газодобывающих платформ без воздействия на окружающую среду с помощью новых подводных безопасных для биосферы вихревых гидроэлектростанций. Описание проблемы Наступила новая эра освоения океана...

  • Update available for Startup Village

    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...

    26 May, 13:03 Nowak David
  • Skolkovo aims to contribute 1.5 trillion rubles to Russian GDP by 2030

    Skolkovo is aiming to contribute 1.5 trillion rubles to the Russian economy by 2020, Foundation president Victor Vekselberg said Friday. Addressing Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s commission on economic modernization at the Hypercube, Vekselberg noted...

    19 December, 14:03 Nowak David