Three innovative biomed projects were selected as the winners of the Patents Power competition last week organised by the Skolkovo Foundation, the German pharma company Bayer and Rospatent, Russia’s federal intellectual property service. Finalists...
The annual Patenting School , an annual two-day conference aimed at providing participants with practical knowledge of how to patent hi-tech projects, both in Russia and abroad, got underway at the Skolkovo Technopark on Thursday. The annual Patenting...
The Skolkovo Foundation has teamed up with the multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company Bayer to launch a competition to help biotech startups advance their projects and secure their intellectual property rights. The competition, titled Patents...
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protection institutions such as patents continue to function in a world where new technologies are developed and go out-of-date in the space of a few months, if patents can take five years to obtain?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...
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...
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...
Optogard Nanotech , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation, has raised 110 million rubles ($1.8 million) in financing from Garant, a group investing in industrial projects. Under the terms of the deal, the investors and company founders have become partners...
Scientists and tech entrepreneurs from across Russia who are anxious to protect their inventions gathered at the Skolkovo innovation centre this week for an intensive Patenting School aimed at providing participants with all the information they need to register...
Senior representatives of the intellectual property offices of the BRICS countries met at the Skolkovo innovation centre on Tuesday to exchange ideas on helping startups to secure their property rights. Representatives of intellectual property offices...
The only branch of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Europe and the former Soviet Union began operating out of the Skolkovo Innovation Centre this month. WIPO, a United Nations agency tasked with promoting the protection of intellectual...
Skolkovo has begun accepting applications from startup companies in the agriculture business and expects its first residents by the end of the year, opening up new avenues of research that experts say are of critical importance for biotech in Russian and beyond...
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...
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...
Skolkovo is playing a key role in redressing Russia’s import-export imbalance when it comes to innovations, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev speaking in Novocheboksarsk this week. Photo: government,ru ...
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...