• Generating innovations: Ruselprom becomes Skolkovo partner

    One of Russia’s largest manufacturers of electricity generators and electric motors is to form a research center at Skolkovo under an agreement worth 280 million rubles and signed at Startup Village this week. Grachev, right, and Shcherbakov at...

    05 June, 11:06 Nowak David
  • Skolkovo signs up for Energy Without Borders

    A major investment fund that provides the government with technology solutions in the energy industry is to base its research center at Skolkovo under a deal signed at Startup Village this week. The signing ceremony at Startup Village. Photo: sk.ru ...

    04 June, 11:45 Nowak David
  • Update available for Startup Village

    Improvements in this version of Startup Village: Record crowds, new setting, creative catering. Like the leading smartphone apps, Startup Village is constantly evolving. The third edition of Russia and Eastern Europe’s biggest startup event is no...

    26 May, 13:03 Nowak David
  • Без шофера и бензина

    Массовый электромобиль и такси-беспилотник — реальность ближайших пяти-десяти лет. Николай Грачев Вице-президент фонда «Сколково», исполнительный директор кластера энергоэффективных технологий. Электромобили пока экзотика...

    14 May, 10:48 Vitaly Shustikov
  • Startup Tour puts Ufa on the map of Russian innovation

    The Startup Tour completed its penultimate stop this week on its three-month journey around Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, putting the central city of Ufa firmly on the map of Russian innovation. ThUfa's State Petrochemical Technological University...

    23 April, 10:42 Nowak David
  • $200 million for Russian-Chinese innovation

    The Skolkovo Foundation has teamed up with China’s Cybernaut Investment Group to create a $200 million venture fund to stimulate high-tech innovations of mutual interest. Skolkovo's senior VP for innovations Vasily Belov and Russian Deputy Prime...

    21 April, 21:10 Nowak David
  • Участники «Сколково» представили новейшие разработки на выставке Hannover Messe 2015

    13-17 апреля в Ганновере (Германия) состоялась крупнейшая в мире выставка промышленных технологий Hannover Messe , в которой приняли участие 11 резидентов Фонда «Сколково». Фонд «Сколково» представил новейшие разработки в сфере...

    20 April, 21:49 Vitaly Shustikov
  • Startup Tour: Biomed rules in Belarus

    Seventeen innovations received recognition at the Minsk stage of the Startup Tour this week, with four projects winning a place in the pitch sessions at Startup Village in Moscow this summer. The winners of the Belarus pitch sessions. Photo: sk.ru ...

    16 April, 14:15 Nowak David
  • Second foreign assignment for the Startup Tour to kick off in Minsk

    The second foray outside the confines of Russia begins Tuesday for the Startup Tour, which visits the Belarusian capital of Minsk in its quest to uncover and develop the top startups in the CIS. The National Library of Belarus in Minsk, venue for the...

    13 April, 11:06 Nowak David
  • Startup Tour leaves the Far East, but Skolkovo stays behind

    The Startup Tour may have left Russia’s Far East, but the Skolkovo Foundation remains in the region for the foreseeable future with the Vladivostok branch beginning its official operations on Monday. The winners in Vladivostok. Photo: sk.ru ...

    06 April, 11:48 Nowak David
  • St. Petersburg delights with cow pregnancy tests and ‘Internet of Vegetables’

    A wind generator, a cow pregnancy test and the curiously titled Internet of Vegetables were among the victors in the pitch contest at the seventh stage of the Startup Tour, which wrapped up in St. Petersburg this week. The winners of the pitch sessions...

    27 March, 9:57 Nowak David
  • Startup Tour opens door to Skolkovo ecosystem in Kazakhstan

    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...

    20 March, 17:17 Nowak David
  • A Russian-Kazakh pipeline for oil and gas cooperation

    Access to clients such as Gazprom and Rosneft is on offer for Kazakh startups that join the Skolkovo ecosystem, said the executive director of the foundation’s Energy Cluster, Nikolai Grachev, at a roundtable in Almaty on Thursday. Nikolai Grachev...

    19 March, 11:43 Nowak David
  • From the Urals with innovations: Four teams make Startup Village 2015

    The fifth stage of the Russian Startup Tour culminated this week with four teams from Yekaterinburg winning an invitation to the Startup Village in Moscow. The finalists in Yekaterinburg. Photo: sk.ru The capital of the Ural Mountains region was...

    13 March, 10:25 Nowak David
  • Для пользы общего дела

    В конце февраля в фонде «Сколково» прошло совещание на тему «Совместные действия участников рынка электросетевого оборудования по разработке и внедрению инновационных решений в отрасли». Фото: PhotoXPress.ru Участники...

    06 March, 10:10 Vitaly Shustikov
  • Startup Tour: Kazan yields DNA analysis, river cleansing technology

    The Russian Startup Tour unearthed some innovative gems in Kazan over the last two days, with six startups invited to Startup Village in Moscow and four million rubles in investments handed out. At the pitch competition in the Kazan IT park on Tuesday and...

    04 March, 19:23 Nowak David
  • Application process opens for Startup Village 2015

    The Skolkovo Foundation began accepting applications Monday for the pitch sessions at Startup Village, Eastern Europe’s biggest innovations conference, at the Innovation Center on June 2-3. Last year's Startup Village attracted around 10,000...

    02 March, 14:35 Nowak David
  • Skolkovo puts 12 startups on display at Oil and Gas Forum

    Skolkovo put 12 of its top energy startups on display Wednesday at the second annual Oil and Gas Forum in Moscow, which was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich and moderated by Skolkovo Foundation president Viktor Vekselberg. The first day...

    22 October, 17:37 Nowak David