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...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Friday expressed gratitude to the Skolkovo Foundation’s Ekaterina Inozemtseva and Alina Suslova for their work in promoting entrepreneurship in Russia. Inozemtseva is the Foundation’s director of strategy...
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...
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...
HELSINKI, Finland - Russia’s chief proponents of innovation took to the silver stage Tuesday at Slush 2014, Europe’s biggest startup conference, to share the secrets of entering the Russian market. From left: Galitsky, Viljakainen, Dvorkovich...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The pace of change in Russia appears slow at the moment. Ongoing events in the Crimea suggest an inward-looking country that has no ear for global opinion and is set on acting like the angry Soviet bear that we know from the Cold War. The perception,...
As the political situation in Russia become more uncertain with the international community, there was a decision to be made to go to Russia and attend the Startup Village event, organized by SKOLKOVO. After a few deliberations with people in the region...
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...
Startup Village producer, Alina Suslova speaks about the conference preparation and agenda. ― Startup Village is an event of unprecedented scale in Russia. Some of the biggest events of the past featured 500 members. We are setting a new record of...
How can there be a start-up without a mobile application? For the participants of the conference Startup Village company Konferenza developed a mobile application: App Store Google Play Windows Phone Startup Village mobile application will...
On May 28, the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation D.A. Medvedev participated in the main startup event of the year – Startup Village. . Although this visit wasn’t scheduled in the progamme of the event, many people at the Startup...
A panel discussion “Breakthrough Technologies in Health Care: Smartphone as a Medical Device, Pharmaceutical Company in Your Own Garage and Research Based on the Analysis of Open-Access Data” took place in the frameworks of the first international...
R&D has always been an expensive activity, especially in the field of innovative medicine. On May 28, at the end of the first session on “Life Sciences”, called “From Human Genome to Personified Medicine. 10 Years Later”...