The Magnit Tech Accelerator (MGNTech) final kicked off today, coinciding with the opening of Magnit’s digital office at Skolkovo, which will be home to one hundred of the retailer’s IT specialists. The focus of the accelerator is to challenge Skolkovo...
Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation Arkady Dvorkovich participated as a distinguished speaker during a panel session titled “The Policy Makers’ Challenge: Navigating Through a Recession”. The session was part of the #GMIS 2020 virtual summit...
The Skolkovo Foundation resident company VisionLabs has for the third time in a row confirmed its reputation as one of the global leaders in the field of computer vision and machine learning. This is based on the results of the independent testing of facial...
ExoAtlet , a Skolkovo resident company from the biomedical technologies cluster, recently gained CE certification allowing the company to export its rehabilitative exoskeleton technology to all EU countries as well as some non-EU states. This is a major leap...
On August 12, a press conference covering the launch of the Skolkovo Foundation’s first environmental program, GreenTech Startup Booster, took place. The project was organized with the support of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the...
“Skolkovo is one of the innovation centers, but let’s speak honestly: it is now the leading innovation center and probably, in terms of competency and capabilities, the most powerful center in the country.” This assessment was made during...
The company, Rapid Bio , is a resident of the biomedical technologies cluster of the Skolkovo Foundation and recently received a product license from the Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare (Roszdravnadzor) for its instant blood test designed to...
“I think that winning the competition is something to remember for a long time. I will tell my daughters that when they were born I won a large international innovation competition.” So said Alexander Dremin, a radio-engineer and electronics...
The highlight of day-1 at the Startup Village Livestream’20 conference was a visionary session devoted to a model of the world after the pandemic and to technologies that will be needed in our current world. The host of the session, the head of the...
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, humanity finds itself in a unique situation that it could not have imagined itself being in several months ago. “We are at the survival stage,” stated the deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation...
The eighth successive Startup Village technology conference opened on the very same day as the ten year anniversary of the creation of the Skolkovo Foundation. “This is a very important and meaningful date for us and we are very happy that we are marking...
“Don’t waste your time waiting for COVID-19 to dry out; if you have an investment project - you can start it online”. That’s what Pekka Viljakainen says, a venture investor from Finland and an advisor to the Chairman of the Board of...
Nikolay Suetin, Vice-President on Science & Education at the Skolkovo Foundation, has explained what he believes to be the most relevant issues in science and technologies, responding to which is critical not only to further combat COVID-19 outbreak, but...
The movie Avatar evoked an imaginary world of lush bioluminescent jungles. Now the popular fascination for sustainably glowing foliage is being realized through advances in designer genetics. This week in Nature Biotechnology, scientists have announced...
The formula "Shoot for the sun to hit the Moon" has never been fairer than during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. The coronavirus disease, which has made half of the world's population stay at home, not only fails to prevent ExoAtlet from engaging...
This is the third time Yves Rossier, the head of the Swiss diplomatic mission, pays a visit to the Innovation Center. Answering a question from Sk.ru concerning such an intensity of visits, the ambassador answered simply: "This is the intensity of what...
Pierre Levy, the French Ambassador to Russia, was quite surprised when, during a visit to a Skoltech laboratory, he saw an Eiffel Tower in miniature, which was made as a test product for controlling a 3D printer. The tower has been reproduced with the...
"It's like Dropbox, but only for corporate passwords," Andrei Pyankov, CEO of Passwork , an Arkhangelsk-based company, briefly explains the essence of the product. This conversation took place during the Startup Tour stage in the capital...
Arkady Dvorkovich, Chairman of the SKOLKOVO Foundation, discussed the prospects for bilateral cooperation with the British Ambassador to Russia. On February 11, SKOLKOVO hosted a meeting between Arkady Dvorkovich, the Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation...
Germany’s Ambassador to Russia, Geza Andreas von Geyr, has accepted the Skolkovo Foundation’s proposal to hold Germany Day in the Innovation City this year. In a meeting with senior managers from the Foundation, the participants discussed the role...
ExoAtlet premiered the world's first exoskeletons for children in as many as two versions, Mini and Midi. The premier was hosted by the annual symposium ExoRehab Spotlights in Skolkovo, which has been held by the Foundation's resident for three consecutive...
A data exchange platform for medical centers and insurance companies developed by GBooking, a Skolkovo resident, has been on the Top 100 list of startups at the Slush conference, Helsinki. The company has created a platform for exchanging medical records...
An innovative domestically developed device for extracorporeal blood purification has been registered in Russia: appropriate permit for clinical administration was issued by the Russian Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare (Roszdravnadzor) This medical...
More than 70% of all medicines used to treat children were never intended for children and have not been tested on children. This shocking information was given during a speech by the director of the Israeli children's clinic Hadassah Eitan Kerem in his...
In the innovation city, as part of the “Open Innovations” forum, a presentation of the Center for Innovation and the Internet of Things in Healthcare was held. Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Veronika Skvortsova, who participated...