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...
Green technologies are where it’s at these days, especially given the looming and ever present threat of the climate crisis, which has not gone away in spite of Covid-19 dominating the news headlines. Most of the world’s nations signed the Paris...
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...
The Skolkovo Foundation, and Hong Kong’s equivalent, the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park Corporation (HKSTP) held an online business mission, giving eight Skolkovo startups working in the biomedical field the opportunity to pitch their solutions...
Robots for diagnostics and surface sanitation, a chat-bot integrated into the MOH’s online portal for providing public consulting support during the pandemic, contactless terminal for body temperature measurement, pass control management platform to be...
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...
Skolkovo Foundation Chairman Arkady Dvorkovich spoke at the Indian Energy Forum in New Delhi, and also met with senior executives from major Indian energy corporations. The meeting was attended by Dharmendra Pradhan the Indian Minister of Oil, Gas and Steel...
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...
On 14th of October, Saudi Arabian Oil Company’s President & CEO Amin H. Nasser and Angara Services ’ CEO Ilya Rodin signed a memorandum of understanding for collaboration. Saudi Aramco President & CEO Amin H. Nasser attended the Saudi...
The second international conference “Innovations for Corporations” dedicated to the topic of “NextTech for Business” took place in the Skolkovo Technopark. The conference brought together some 500 business experts. The event program...
The Skolkovo Innovation Center welcomed the intermediate leg of the Electric Marathon Race, the first stage of the Peace Rally 2019, an international automobile race. For the third year in a row, the Peace Rally opens the international sports program at SPIEF...
“We are still having our dating time in order to better understand the capabilities of Skolkovo.” These were the exact words used by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of AvtoVAZ and Senior Vice President of Renault Nicolas Maure to describe...
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...
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...
Apis Cor, the parent company of Skolkovo resident Apis-Cor Engineering , has won fourth place in a NASA competition to design a 3D-printed habitat that could be built on Mars. SEArch+/Apis Cor's design provides maximum radiation protection from galactic...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...