After holding top positions across the Russian energy industry for more than a decade, Oleg Dubnov has been heading Skolkovo’s energy cluster since 2017. He shared with East-West Digital News fresh insights about the emergence of green technologies in...
On August 12, a press conference covering the launch of the Skolkovo Foundation’s first environmental program, GreenTech Startup Booster, took place. The project was organized with the support of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the...
Energy Efficiency Cluster of Skolkovo Foundation and Israeli high-tech companies have agreed on a roadmap for cooperation to jointly develop and promote innovative products in the markets of Russia, Israel and other countries. A memorandum of understanding...
Fifteen companies selected by the board of experts to participate in Build UP accelerator project will demonstrate their solutions in the field of construction and development The presentation of these projects will consummate the Build UP accelerator project...
The world map of the Enhel group of companies charging infrastructure, consisting of 60 thousand stations, has just been increased with a new bright connection point. On October 9that the Skolkovo Innovation Center, with the latest fast charging system, using...
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...
Fyodor Konyukhov is 67 years old. By the time he turns 70, he plans to have piloted a solar-powered plane around the world – without stopping. The flying laboratory landed inside the Skolkovo innovation city for the Open Innovations forum. Photo...
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...
ANTWERP, Belgium – When it comes to innovations, the industrial city of Antwerp puts its money where its mouth is. Good ideas don’t stay at the theoretical stage for long, but are introduced as soon as practicable – directly onto the city’s...
Norgau , a Russian company that develops and supplies industrial tools and equipment, opened a lab at the Skolkovo Technopark on Thursday that will both conduct R&D and offer services to Skolkovo resident startups and external companies alike. Norgau...
The Skolkovo Foundation has signed an agreement with Russia’s gas behemoth Gazprom on cooperation in science and technology. Gaz giant Gazprom's stand at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Photo: SPIEF. The agreement was...
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...
Energy, space, ICT and smart city technologies are all areas in which Egypt could join forces with the Skolkovo Foundation, Egyptian Ambassador to Russia Ihab Nasr said during a visit to the Skolkovo innovation city on Monday. Egyptian Ambassador Ihab...
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a confederation of former Soviet republics, visited the Skolkovo innovation centre on Wednesday, where they discussed cooperation in the fields of renewable energy and energy-saving technologies. ...
Skolkovo took its cooperation with one of Europe’s biggest tech startup nations to a new level this week, with the visit of the French ambassador to the innovation city and the signing of a memorandum of understanding with two French business organisations...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has tasked his government with creating infrastructure for driverless transport in Russia, bringing the country a step closer to the appearance of autonomous vehicles on its roads and motorways. Volgabus and KB Avrora's...
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...
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) unveiled its Center for Hydrocarbon Recovery’s new state-of-the-art laboratory on June 6 during the annual Startup Village, when Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich and Skolkovo Foundation...
The Skolkovo innovation city could soon be welcoming its first resident startups from South Korea, if applications from four companies currently taking part in a soft landing programme here are successful. Representatives of the South Korean startups...
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...
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...
Skolkovo is taking on its final shape as an innovation city, its president Victor Vekselberg said at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday. Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg spoke to Rossia-24 during the World Economic Forum. ...
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...
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...
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...