Five Russian startups – the winners of the Startup Challenge accelerator organised jointly by the Skolkovo Foundation and multinational pharma giant AstraZeneca – are showcasing their inventions at the International Future Healthcare Forum in the...
The Skolkovo Foundation has joined forces with the U.K.’s AMR Centre, a private-public initiative launched in 2016 to support and accelerate the development of new antibiotics, to combat the global problem of antimicrobial resistance. Skolkovo's...
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...
“Did you know that more than 70 percent of cancer patient deaths are caused not by the cancer itself, but by the side effects of chemotherapy?” With this shocking statistic just minutes into the presentation of his product, Andrei Garazha has the...
В Москве на ВДНХ завершил свою работу четвертый форум «Открытые инновации». Столичный мэр Сергей Собянин на правах хозяина предложил сделать ВДНХ постоянной площадкой для проведения «Открытых инноваций». Градоначальник отметил...
ГАВАНА. Четверть века назад бывший японский премьер Ясухиро Накасонэ изложил в книге «Государственная стратегия Японии в XXI веке» 10 приоритетных задач, от которых зависит будущее нации; первой в списке фигурировало создание лекарств от болезни...
На Петербургском международном экономическом форуме компания IBM, Фонд «Сколково» и Первый Онкологический Научно-Консультационный Центр (ПОНКЦ) подписали меморандум о взаимопонимании. Документ предусматривает формирование первого в своем роде стратегического...
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 ...
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...
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...
The Olympic Committee of Russia is to build a 50,000 sq. m. research and development center at the Skolkovo Innovation Center by 2018 under an agreement signed Friday by the two parties. Olympic chief Alexander Zhukov, left, and Skolkovo Foundation...
Skolkovo on Wednesday unveiled its inaugural almanac, a major effort to bring smart discussion on the latest biotechnology advances to a broad audience in Russia. Issue One discusses the field of so-called omics – a collection of biology study areas...