• In a flurry of snow, Skolkovo tips hat to a kind 2014

    In the dying snow flurries of 2014, as the Vnukovo plane trails dissipate silently into the Moscow sky, the Skolkovo Foundation can look back upon an eventful, challenging and ultimately successful year from its new, permanent home. Snow settles at Skolkovo...

    25 December, 14:47 Nowak David
  • Skolkovo ramps up high-tech ties with India

    Skolkovo signed an agreement with India on Thursday to ramp up cooperation in the high-tech sector, part of a raft of deals overseen by Russian President Vladimir Putin during a trip to New Delhi. Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselber, center...

    11 December, 14:41 Nowak David
  • Skolkovo can walk, now it must learn to run – presidential advisor

    HELSINKI, Finland – The warm welcome meted out to the Skolkovo delegation at Europe’s biggest startup conference last week shows that Russia is becoming a key player on the international tech scene, but the organization can’t rest on its laurels...

    25 November, 9:25 Nowak David
  • Aelita knocks out the competition with new anesthetic machine

    Skolkovo resident biomed company Aelita has put a new anesthetic machine through five months of successful testing on real patients, passing a key test on the path to market entry. The machine, known as Anekom, is intended for inhalation anesthesia in combination...

    30 October, 13:59 Nowak David
  • Slush 2014: Skolkovo to send more than 40 startups to Helsinki

    More than 40 Skolkovo resident companies are to fly to Helsinki next month for Slush, one of Europe’s biggest startup investment conferences, to woo financiers and get a sense of how they measure up to international competition. Organizers are hoping...

    28 October, 11:18 Nowak David
  • Exoskeleton ‘Albert’ to star at Science Festival

    A Skolkovo resident tech company is to exhibit its latest prototype exoskeleton, a contraption designed to enhance the physical abilities of the human body, at the Russian State University Science Festival this week. The startup, ExoAtlet, is to put on display...

    10 October, 11:53 Nowak David
  • Russian Startup Tour 2015 to take in Belarus, Kazakhstan

    The Russian Startup Tour will venture beyond Russia’s borders for the first time next February as budding businesses in Belarus and Kazakhstan take part in the fifth annual innovative road show. The 2015 Russian Startup Tour (RST) is an initiative...

    22 September, 10:59 Nowak David
  • Top government official lauds Russian Startup Tour 2015

    Encouraging economic growth through the 2015 Russian Startup Tour is the best way to combat the difficult political conditions currently facing the country, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said Saturday. Speaking at the International Investment Forum...

    20 September, 22:45 Nowak David
  • Startup Village: Reloaded

    The Startup Village that announced Skolkovo’s Innovation Centre to the world last year is undergoing a spectacular reboot for 2014 Everything from number of participants to the area of the venue is scaling up as the two-day huddle for progressive...

    21 April, 13:21 Baklanov Mikhail