Delimobil became the second car sharing service to expand to the Skolkovo innovation city on Wednesday, signing a strategic partnership agreement into the bargain. A Delimobil car parked in front of the Skolkovo Technopark on Wednesday. Photo: Sk.ru....
The Skolkovo Foundation council met in the new Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) campus for the first time on Thursday ahead of the state-of-the-art building’s launch in September. Skoltech will begin the process of moving...
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...
Members of the Skolkovo Foundation council discussed plans for the second stage of the giant Skolkovo Technopark at their quarterly meeting on Thursday. The first stage of the Technopark was opened in January 2017, having been funded by the foundation. The...
2017 has been another packed year for the Skolkovo innovation city. The last year saw the Skolkovo Foundation’s total number of resident startups reach about 1,800, with the first of them moving into the newly finished Skolkovo Technopark at the beginning...
While recycling, a rejection of plastic bags and other eco-friendly initiatives are now a way of life in many European countries, Russia – the biggest country in the world – lags woefully behind in this area. This year was declared the Year of Ecology...
The Skolkovo innovation centre has launched a Telegram channel listing job vacancies at resident tech startups fostered by the Skolkovo Foundation, as well as jobs at the foundation’s partner industrial companies and at the foundation itself. The channel...
Ordinary people have an unprecedented opportunity to make their voices heard concerning the development of their place of residence, whether it be a sprawling metropolis or a remote village, and should take every opportunity to use that voice, visitors to the...
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...
People working at the Skolkovo innovation city outside Moscow can now get a free lift to and from work and get to know their colleagues at the same time, thanks to an app designed by resident startup DaDaEdu , whose name translates as “Yes yes, I’m...
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. ...
The Skolkovo innovation city saw the launch of its first car sharing scheme on Tuesday with the unveiling of a BelkaCar parking point. L-R: Ekaterina Makarova, Maxim Sheifel and Loriana Sardar pose in front of the first three BelkaCars to appear at the...
The Skolkovo innovation centre has been shortlisted as a Best Futura Mega Project at the MIPIM Awards 2017 , a prestigious ceremony held as part of the MIPIM international property exhibition held annually in the French resort of Cannes. The decision was...
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev hailed the development of the Skolkovo innovation centre that he founded six years ago as president at a meeting of its board of trustees on Wednesday. “Overall, the project is developing quite successfully, it’s...
The Skolkovo Innovation Center is often praised for the rate at which it is sprouting out of the ground on a patch of land just west of Moscow. Just a few years into the project, hundreds of resident companies are already here, as is the Skoltech university...
Exploring the possibility of building a Skolkovo-style tech park in Cuba, a government delegation from the island visited Moscow this week seeking to create the optimal engine of innovation. The Cuban delegation. Photo: sk.ru It was the third Cuban...
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...