The final phase of the corporate acceleration program that has been co-run by Skolkovo Foundation and international biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is now complete The representatives of six corporate winners speak about their developments. Natalia...
Every day, the headlines warn us that robots will soon replace humans in more and more jobs. But in many areas of industry, experts believe that the best work is a joint effort by man and technology. This is the thinking behind a competition held at the...
After a gruelling boot camp and months of preparations, six Russian biomed startups were selected Thursday to take part in the first AstraZeneca-Skolkovo accelerator, in which the companies will get intensive support from the multinational pharma giant for...
Few countries in the world can benefit from telemedicine and the remote diagnosis and monitoring services it offers as much as Russia, with its enormous territory and multitude of sparsely populated and hard to reach areas. Yet currently, digital healthcare...
No one doubts the need for companies to stay innovative, no matter how big and successful they might be right now. But if anyone needs a reminder of why this is important, there is always the cautionary tale of Kodak, the U.S. company that dominated the photography...
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...
The U.S. may be streets ahead in the development of driverless cars, but there is one area where Russia could still overtake, Russian technology experts believe. Their secret weapon? That tried-and-tested historical ally, General Winter. For it’s one...
VLADIVOSTOK — On his way back to Moscow from a tour of the United States in 1959, Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev stopped off in Russia’s Far Eastern port city of Vladivostok. Inspired by what he had just seen in America and the basic parallels between...
There was a distinct feeling of déjà vu at the second InSpace forum held in Moscow on Friday, where one year after the original event , the main players in Russia’s space industry pondered the same existential questions that had dominated...
The gigantic oceanarium that opened in Russia’s Far East last year could become a centre of excellence in aquaculture with the help of the Skolkovo innovation centre. The Primorsky Oceanarium opened in the Far Eastern port city of Vladivostok last...
An armada of Skolkovo startups will head to Helsinki next week for Slush , one of the biggest events in Europe for tech entrepreneurs. Slush attracts thousands of tech entrepreneurs and investors from around the world. Photo: Affe Tavasti / Slush. ...
Russia marked a milestone Wednesday with its first large-scale event for women in technology, aimed at supporting female professionals working in spheres where they are distinctly outnumbered by men, such as IT. Tatyana Arkharova (right), head of the...
As the International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP) conference got underway at Skolkovo on Monday, representatives of innovation centres from around the world exchanged visions and experiences of how to create a successful innovation...
Senior representatives of the intellectual property offices of the BRICS countries met at the Skolkovo innovation centre on Tuesday to exchange ideas on helping startups to secure their property rights. Representatives of intellectual property offices...
Russian pharmaceutical companies looking to enter the U.K. market – and vice versa – will meet with their British counterparts at a two-day conference at the Skolkovo innovation centre next week to forge new partnerships in developing innovative...
Ahead of his appearance at the Innorobo Keynote in Paris in May, Albert Yefimov, head of the Skolkovo Foundation's Robotics Centre , gave an interview to TheDisruptory, a website devoted to disruptive innovations from around the world. Image: thedisruptory...
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...
Skolkovo’s $200 million deal with Cybernaut to stimulate Russian-Chinese innovation won prominent coverage in the world's media this week, with references to “a big move for Sino-Russian economic relations” that may have “a significant...
The Skolkovo Innovation Center on March 20-22 hosted the third Skolkovo Robotics International Conference, one of the biggest events of its kind in Russia. More than 2,000 registered for the three-day bonanza , which bought together robot developers, company...
The third Skolkovo Robotics International Conference was a runaway success, attracting a wide array of participants from all corners of the planet and, critically, encouraging the discipline to flourish domestically. The March 20-22 event at the Skolkovo...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - The Kazakh stage of the Startup Tour concluded on Friday with several innovations winning a place at the Startup Village in June and, perhaps more significantly, the foundations put in place for of a new era of high-tech cooperation between...
ALMATY - Kazakhstan’s Minister for Investment and Development Asset Issekeshev raised the curtain Thursday on the sixth leg of the Russian Startup Tour - and first to take place abroad – with a call to transform Almaty into a major innovations hub...
A key message that Skolkovo transmits its startups is the need to expand into new territories. Now it is leading by example: This week, Russia’s biggest innovations roadshow ventures abroad for the first time in its five-year history. Almaty - the...
A trip to the United States has blown away any doubt in three of Skolkovo’s premier startup businesses that the lucrative tech market is accessible, and that local partners and investors can be found, the entrepreneurs say. The companies, Viziware...