Even in the most optimistic scenario, the coronavirus disease outbreak in the Russian Federation will last for at least two months, Georgii Bazykin, Skoltech Professor, Chair of the Molecular Evolution Sector, IITP RAS, believes According to his forecast...
Representatives of the German group of companies “Phoenix contact” and the Skolkovo Foundation laid the first stone of the partner center on the territory of the innovation center. By 2021, a regional center for development and industry competencies...
In October 2018, at the “Open Innovations” forum, the head of the Russian government, Dmitry Medvedev, was driven around by a “Yandex” unmanned vehicle through the territory of the Skolkovo innovation center. A year later, speaking at...
The Skolkovo Foundation has joined forces with the U.K.’s AMR Centre, a private-public initiative launched in 2016 to support and accelerate the development of new antibiotics, to combat the global problem of antimicrobial resistance. Skolkovo's...
Russia’s first commercial research biobank, National BioService , opened a brand new laboratory at the Skolkovo Technopark on Thursday. The National BioService lab at the Skolkovo Technopark will be used for both the company's own research and...
A proposal sent to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to use artificial intelligence to improve Russia’s legal system made the headlines this week, but this process is in fact already underway. Robot-lawyers, the use of blockchain to create smart contracts...
Despite the 9,000 kilometres between them, the Skolkovo innovation centre outside Moscow and Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University ( FEFU ) in Vladivostok have a lot in common. They were both created in 2010, when four of the Far East’s leading...
The first shared lab space in Russia for life sciences and biotech startups opened its doors at the Skolkovo Technopark on Wednesday with a mission to help budding biomed entrepreneurs test their theories and turn their ideas into a commercial company. ...
Russia’s official position on the potentially lucrative field of asteroid mining is that it is outlawed by the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which declares that space is “the province of mankind,” and that its use and exploration must “benefit...
Pharm-Sintez.Lab , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s nuclear cluster, has developed a system for detecting rare forms of cancer in Russian patients. Lev Voloznev, CEO of Pharm-Sintez.Lab, pictured in his lab at the Skolkovo Technopark...
Peter Thiel, a German-American billionaire entrepreneur and investor, caused a near-tidal wave of outrage ahead of the recent U.S. presidential election when he set himself apart from most of Silicon Valley by coming out in favour of Donald Trump. A design...
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...
Skolkovo startup DRD Biotech has produced a working prototype of an express test that can determine in just a few minutes whether a person has had – or is at near-term risk of having – the most common kind of stroke. Svetlana Dambinova has...
Even before Pokemon GO fever struck the world, 2016 had already been dubbed the year of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) by tech-watchers due to the number of new devices hitting the market this year. Then Nintendo’s Pokemon-themed AR game took the...
If scientists invented an anti-ageing pill that would help you live to the age of 120, would you take it? Think carefully, because if it sounds like science fiction, it’s not. Ageing is a treatable disease like any other, according to some scientists...
Amid the satellites, virtual reality headsets, 3D printers and other hi-tech products on show at Skolkovo’s recent Startup Bazaar, the stand housing a cage of buzzing flies and jar of writhing maggots stood out. Also on the table were jars of dried and...
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...
A four-year-old boy from the Russian city of St. Petersburg got a life-changing birthday present last week when he was given a functioning prosthetic hand designed to resemble his favourite cartoon hero. A video of the little boy, Fyodor, using his bright...
With a proposed $4 billion boost and new regulations facilitating the introduction of driverless cars, the U.S. may be leading the headlines in the race to get fully autonomous transport on the road. But Russian projects are well underway, and last month, Rusnano...
“What’s Russia famous for? The Kalashnikov – the AK47,” says Vladimir Mironov, chief scientific officer at 3D Bioprinting Solutions . “Well now we have a different motto: not shoot to kill, but shoot to heal – using a tissue...
The Skolkovo Foundation is preparing to expand beyond planet Earth this autumn, when its subsidiary, the Skolkovo Orbital Launch Centre (SOLC), is set to send satellites into space. “Our first launches are planned for October this year,” said...
From its beginning, one of Skoltech’s guiding principles was to interface with industrial commercialization and venture opportunities as they develop at Skolkovo and elsewhere. This week Skoltech has realized this principle, as it has signed its first...
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...
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...