Amid the hazardous hairstyles and improbable outfits on display at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia last week, it was hard to stand out. But in one of the cavernous rooms of Moscow’s Manezh, where the event took place, some of the startups displaying...
Skolkovo startups won two out of four categories at the Startup of the Year awards at Moscow’s Digital October centre on Wednesday. Koshelek (CardsMobile), an app that allows users to compile all their bank, transport and discount cards into one electronic...
Skolkovo resident Apis Cor , which recently printed a house in Russia for just $10,000, has been featured on the New Atlas tech website. The house was built using a 3D printer in just 24 hours, amid the freezing Russian winter. Photo: Apis Cor. ...
Skolkovo resident startup GeoSteering Technologies , the maker of “smart drilling” software for use at oil and gas production facilities, signed an agreement with the government of the Tyumen region at the Sochi 2017 Russian Investment Forum this...
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...
We all know that cars are getting smarter, and driverless cars are looming on the horizon . The day may not be too far off when we can just summon a driverless car, hop in and relax, leaving the car to deal with all the tasks that drivers currently have to...
Representatives of French corporate giants Michelin and Auchan visited the Skolkovo innovation centre on Tuesday to meet with Russian startups that could help them to keep their businesses innovative in an event organised together with French Tech Moscow and...
Russia’s wealth of fossil fuel resources has inevitably made it easy for the country to ignore renewable energy sources (RES). In recent years, however, several government initiatives have been launched to develop this sector, and at the REENCON-21 International...
Морская энергетика может решить проблемы электроснабжения нефте-газодобывающих платформ без воздействия на окружающую среду с помощью новых подводных безопасных для биосферы вихревых гидроэлектростанций. Описание проблемы Наступила новая эра освоения океана...
Chinese investors are to spend $30 million on a plant in the country’s northeast that will use cutting-edge technology devised by Risilica, a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation, to turn by-products of rice farming into amorphous silica. An estimated...
For three days this week, Skolkovo will be transformed into an international centre of industrial design, promise the organisers of an event aimed at helping tech startups to use design as a tool to commercialize their projects. The idea for the Days...
Oil producer Gazprom Neft is to open a research and development centre at the Skolkovo innovation centre outside Moscow under an agreement signed Thursday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg (left)...
Китайские компании проявляют интерес к российским технологиям мониторинга инфраструктурных объектов, разработанным компаниями участниками «Сколково». Об этом заявил в Пекине Президент Фонда Виктор Вексельберг на проходящем здесь Российско-китайском...
A 3D printer that prints buildings, a system for destroying toxic algae using an electrical current and a method of monitoring employees' health via a device worn on their clothes were among the futuristic industrial startups competing for prizes at the...
Startups fostered by the Skolkovo Foundation won the first, second and third prizes over the weekend at Pioneers Moscow , a competition to discover the best budding tech companies. The final of the international Pioneers event at the Hofburg Imperial...
Ahead of International Women's Day on March 8, the U.K.'s main telecom companies joined forces to launch a mentoring programme aimed at encouraging women to pursue STEM careers, as professions based around science, technology, engineering and mathematics...
In an article last week, the Financial Times wrote that the concept of the BRICS group of emerging economies was dead, arguing that Russia and Brazil’s dependence on commodities exports had led to them being usurped by tech-heavy economies Taiwan and...
На протяжении большей части своей истории Чили страдала от собственного географического положения: узкая полоска земли, протянувшаяся на 4 тысячи километров с севера на юг между Тихим океаном и Андами. Пустыня Атакама на севере, ледники на юге, цунами и землетрясения...
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...
An energy-saving project co-funded by the Skolkovo Foundation has been shortlisted for the prestigious IChemE Global Awards for excellence, innovation and achievement in the chemical, process and biochemical industries. UNIHEAT was created in 2012...
Purifying gold is a dirty business. After extraction, the precious metal - rarely found in its unadulterated form and usually mixed in with silver in natural deposits - must be dissolved in acid before electrolysis produces pure gold. The procedure is known...
Skolkovo is teaming up with two of its biggest industrial partners in Panasonic and truck-maker KAMAZ in a search for the next big breakthrough in battery technology. Panasonic's Gavrilov, third from right, with Skolkovo colleagues. Photo: sk.ru ...
A ceremony at Skolkovo on Tuesday saw one of the world’s leading steel pipeline producers lay the first stone in the construction of a new research center at the innovations hub. Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg, left, and TMK chairman Dmitry...
Представители Фонда «Сколково» и 11 компаний-резидентов инновационного центра с 22 по 26 июня провели роуд-шоу в Сингапур е. Основной целью поездки стало представление российских проектов рынку Юго-Восточной Азии на Echelon Asia Summit 2015. Кроме...
В конце июня в «Сколково» состоялась встреча Клуба друзей кластера Энергоэффективных технологий, в которой приняли участие представители российского электротехнического концерна «Русэлпром», который месяц назад стал официальным партнёром...