Компания «Сингента», один из мировых лидеров в области производства средств защиты растений и семеноводства, открыла в Сколково лабораторию по исследованию и контролю качества растительного материала. Предполагаемый объем инвестиций «Сингенты»...
Two of the top three prizes in a reality TV show that followed the fortunes of Russian tech startups went to residents of the Skolkovo Foundation. Vitaly Savelyev, commercial director of KB Avrora, receiving first prize for the Agrobot project. Photo...
When pinpointing a region’s innovative potential, it may not seem entirely logical to look to a seaweed-processing plant preparing to celebrate its centenary. But Russia’s northern Arkhangelsk region is putting its hopes for its economic future...
Just four months after Cherkizovo Group, one of Russia’s biggest meat producers, signed an agreement with the Skolkovo Technopark to set up an agrotech accelerator there, the company has already identified a potential unicorn among Skolkovo startups....
Japan’s Panasonic Corporation may be primarily associated in the public mind with consumer electronics, but in some parts of the world, it is selling a very different kind of product: vegetables. Panasonic has branched out to grow lettuce and other...
Skolkovo’s Technopark has signed an agreement with Cherkizovo Group, a major Russian meat producer, to establish an acceleration centre for Skolkovo resident startups working in the areas of biotech in agriculture and industry. Renat Batyrov, left...
The Skolkovo innovation centre has signed a cooperation agreement with the Israeli city of Yoqneam Illit, marking its first partnership with a fellow hi-tech city. Skolkovo's Igor Drozdov (left) and Yoqneam Illit Mayor Simon Alfasi sign the cooperation...
The Skolkovo Foundation’s biomed cluster, which includes an agrotech division, signed two agreements with agricultural companies on Thursday at the second day of the Open Innovations forum. Kirill Kaem, left, and Alexei Kuznetsov, head of RusChemBio...
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food,” the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates proclaimed. Almost 2,500 years later, biologists and geneticists around the world have come to the conclusion that he was right. With antibiotics in...
Russia and Israel look set to join forces to improve efficiency on Russian farms after Israel’s agriculture minister visited the Skolkovo Foundation last week, where it was agreed that a working group should be set up to facilitate joint research and...
«Проект «Сколково» развивается в целом успешно», - заявил премьер-министр Дмитрий Медведев на заседании Попечительского совета Фонда, которое прошло в рамках международной конференции Startup Village. «Я посмотрел, как идет...
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...