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...
Iran’s Islamic Azad University will set up an R&D centre at the Skolkovo innovation centre next year, the two sides agreed at the International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP) conference in Moscow on Tuesday. Under the...
Hyperloop One, one of the companies working to make Elon Musk’s high-speed vacuum train dream a reality, sees potential for working with Skolkovo startups on the ambitious project, the U.S. company’s vice president said Thursday. Knut Sauer...
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...
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...