Skolkovo’s resident scooter-sharing startup Samocat Sharing will expand to Helsinki next summer with a network of 50 docking stations across the Finnish capital. Samocat Sharing founder Vasily Bykov pictured at a scooter dock inside the Skolkovo...
Amid the driverless cars, robots, virtual reality headsets, industrial equipment and examples of every area of tech on show at the Open Innovations forum held at the Skolkovo Technopark this week, some looked a little out of place. An inviting-looking double...
Four Skolkovo resident companies have been selected by the Russian-German Chamber of Commerce and partners to take part in Start.up! Germany , an international business mission to Germany’s industrial heartland. The finalists of the pitching session...
Skolkovo company Georezonans is starting work on the degasification of part of Russia’s biggest coal mine using its innovative plasma impulse excitation technology. An operator checks sensors showing methane emissions. Photo: Georezonans. ...
As Moscow prepares to host up to one million football fans for the upcoming FIFA World Cup , one Skolkovo resident startup is set to offer fans and Muscovites alike a new form of transport convenient for covering the so-called last mile: kick scooters for rent...
Ecologically friendly cleaning products made by Skolkovo resident BioMicroGel have gone on sale in Perekryostok supermarkets across Russia after the innovative startup signed a contract with X5 Retail Group, one of the country’s biggest retail chains...
Skolkovo resident AMT has created the biggest residential building to be made using 3D printing technology in Europe and the CIS: a fully-fledged house in the Russian city of Yaroslavl. The spacious 3D-printed house was built in the Russian city of Yaroslavl...
Apis Cor, the parent company of a Skolkovo resident startup that uses 3D printing to construct buildings, has raised about $6 million in investment from the Rusnano Sistema Sicar venture fund, Vedomosti newspaper reported Thursday. Apis Cor demonstrated...
A Skolkovo resident startup has impressed the government of Russia’s Chelyabinsk region with its technology for the maintenance of water and heating pipes without having to dig trenches and replace sections of piping. The Mayak Urals Factory of Polymer...
Samocat Sharing , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s energy-efficient technologies cluster, is expanding its kick scooter sharing scheme to the Finnish city of Espoo. Sergei Pisarenko, cofounder of Samocat Sharing, rides a scooter around...
Traditionally, Russian business in Latin America may have revolved around two products – importing bananas and flowers – but as the governments of Mexico and Ecuador open up their lucrative oil and gas industries to foreign companies, Russia’s...
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...
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...
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...
A Skolkovo Foundation resident company that has developed a system for detecting large diamonds within kimberlite ores looks set to see mining giant Alrosa among its first customers, the director of science of the foundation’s nuclear technology cluster...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
In the first of a series of interviews, Sk.ru discovers what makes innovators tick in the less glamorous but no less critical field of metallurgy. Recycling steelmaking slag the EcoSlag way. Photo: Amir Shakurov EcoSlag is a Moscow-based firm that...
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...
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...
Texas-based Propell Technologies, which owns an exclusive license to use clean fracking technology developed by a Skolkovo resident, has received a $5 million investment from Roman Abramovich's Ervington Investments. The deal, announced this week, spells...