• ‘Smash stereotypes abroad,’ Skolkovo president Vekselberg urges Russian startups

    Geopolitical tensions will one day be in the past, but the future lies in innovations, Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg told a packed audience of the foundation’s startups on the third and final day of the Open Innovations forum Friday...

    28 October, 16:37 Collinson Shura
  • First residents set to move into Skolkovo housing - together with robocat

    The first residents preparing to move in to the Skolkovo innovation city’s brand new housing met with Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg on Thursday to discuss their future community. Marina Stepanova, the first person to sign a rental...

    22 September, 19:28 Collinson Shura
  • Startup Village: больше, чем деревня

    В Сколково открылась крупнейшая в Восточной Европе инновационная конференция Startup Village. 12 тысяч участников из 27 стран, представители дипкорпуса, ученые, эксперты, вице-премьеры российского правительства, глава Сбербанка Герман Греф, споры о редактировании...

    02 June, 13:09 Baklanov Mikhail
  • Robots set to roam Skolkovo streets as world experts gather for major conference

    Robots of all shapes, sizes and functions will be busting out of the labs and taking to the streets of the Skolkovo innovation centre on May 20 for the annual Skolkovo Robotics event, attended by robots – and their creators – from all over Russia...

    11 May, 12:33 Collinson Shura
  • Duma deputies praise Skolkovo, urge expansion of its formula across Russia

    The Skolkovo project set up to diversify the Russian economy away from energy exports has surpassed the targets set for it by the government, and its format should be rolled out around the country, parliamentary deputies and a deputy finance minister said Wednesday...

    28 April, 14:13 Collinson Shura
  • В Москве начались "Открытые инновации"

    В Москве на ВДНХ начал свою работу четвертый форум «Открытые инновации». Столичный мэр Сергей Собянин на правах хозяина предложил сделать ВДНХ постоянной площадкой для проведения «Открытых инноваций». Градоначальник отметил, что Москва...

    28 October, 14:43 Mungalov Dmitry
  • First stone laid at TMK research center

    A ceremony at Skolkovo on Tuesday saw one of the world’s leading steel pipeline producers lay the first stone in the construction of a new research center at the innovations hub. Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg, left, and TMK chairman Dmitry...

    14 July, 16:52 Nowak David
  • Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev: Skolkovo is producing results

    Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says Skolkovo is starting to produce tangible results, despite being less than five years old. From left: Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg, his advisor Pekka Viljakainen, and Prime Minister Medvedev. Photo: sk.ru ...

    04 June, 14:54 Nowak David
  • 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
  • Faster, higher, stronger: Skolkovo to host Olympic R&D center

    The Olympic Committee of Russia is to build a 50,000 sq. m. research and development center at the Skolkovo Innovation Center by 2018 under an agreement signed Friday by the two parties. Olympic chief Alexander Zhukov, left, and Skolkovo Foundation...

    20 February, 11:11 Nowak David
  • In a flurry of snow, Skolkovo tips hat to a kind 2014

    In the dying snow flurries of 2014, as the Vnukovo plane trails dissipate silently into the Moscow sky, the Skolkovo Foundation can look back upon an eventful, challenging and ultimately successful year from its new, permanent home. Snow settles at Skolkovo...

    25 December, 14:47 Nowak David
  • Slush 2014: Skolkovo to send more than 40 startups to Helsinki

    More than 40 Skolkovo resident companies are to fly to Helsinki next month for Slush, one of Europe’s biggest startup investment conferences, to woo financiers and get a sense of how they measure up to international competition. Organizers are hoping...

    28 October, 11:18 Nowak David
  • Tech park Olympics: Rival bid a little hasty in commiserating Skolkovo

    An hour before Renat Batyrov discovered his project, the Skolkovo Technopark, had won hosting rights to the 2016 IASP World Conference of science parks, he was already being commiserated on defeat by an overconfident rival. “You’ve lost and we’ve...

    24 October, 15:25 Nowak David
  • Stories from the Stand: Skolkovo at Open Innovations

    Skolkovo is exhibiting its top resident companies at the Open Innovations Forum in Moscow. Here are some of their stories from the Skolkovo stand, which is the de facto centerpiece of the forum. Marshalling the stand was vice president for communications...

    15 October, 17:55 Nowak David
  • Medvedev, Li Keqiang visit Skolkovo stand at Open Innovations

    Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang paid a visit to the Skolkovo stand at the Open Innovations Forum in Moscow on Tuesday, checking in with resident companies to stay abreast of the latest advances in technology. ...

    14 October, 13:33 Nowak David
  • Open Innovations 2014: Russia, China and Skolkovo

    The Skolkovo Foundation plays catalyst this week as Russia seeks to strengthen its economic partnership with China at the Open Innovations Forum in Moscow. Skolkovo is a co-organizer of the October 14-16 event at the Technopolis in the Russian capital, which...

    13 October, 10:24 Nowak David
  • ‘We’ll be here for a very long time’

    The Skolkovo Foundation held a housewarming party Saturday at the innovation center just outside Moscow, opening a new chapter in the project to modernize Russia’s economy. Skolkovo president Viktor Vekselberg, left, speaking at the ribbon-cutting...

    05 October, 12:15 Nowak David
  • «Мы будем жить в Сколково долго, очень долго»

    Фонд «Сколково» с размахом и фантазией отметил новоселье в Иннограде. Отныне название Фонда, которое пишется в кавычках, и его географический адрес, который, естественно, пишется без кавычек, совпали. «Привет, жители Иннограда», - обратился...

    05 October, 8:03 Baklanov Mikhail
  • В Сколково открылась конференция Startup Village

    В инновационном центре Сколково началась самая масштабная в России конференция Startup Village. Первая SV прошла год назад, и, как заявил сегодня президент Фонда «Сколково» Виктор Вексельберг, в нарушение российской традиции «первый блин не...

    02 June, 13:40 Mungalov Dmitry