• Update available for Startup Village

    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...

    26 May, 13:03 Nowak David
  • Forging innovation in metallurgy with EcoSlag

    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...

    10 April, 12:49 Nowak David
  • In a world first, Skolkovo resident prints thyroid gland

    Skolkovo biomed cluster resident 3D Bioprinting Solutions has announced the successful printing of a mouse’s thyroid gland. 3D Bioprinting Solutions unveiled Russia's first bioprinter in October. Photo: 3D Bioprinting Solutions If confirmed...

    01 April, 12:31 Nowak David
  • Cleaning up the Ganges, with Skolkovo's help?

    On a recent trip to India, Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg named BioMicroGel as one of the innovation center’s two dozen residents that could help with cleaning up the Ganges river. Pollution of the Ganges is said to cost India a...

    15 December, 13:12 Nowak David