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...
This provision has been included into the Memorandum of Understanding, signed by Russian companies ‘Sputniks’ and ‘Glavcosmos Launch Services’ and the Tunisian company Telnet Holding. The partners agreed to cooperate in designing small...
In an unidentified major European logistics enterprise where robots had been introduced with great effect to transport goods around the warehouse floor, the human workers, anxious they would lose their jobs, reportedly began kicking the robots over and then...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed a raft of agreements with both Russian and international companies and venture funds at the Open Innovations forum this week. Skolkovo's chairman of the board Igor Drozdov (left) and Russian Post's Nikolai Podguzov...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed a cooperation agreement with Russian Space Systems, a major designer and producer of space technology, at the MAKS international aviation and space salon on Wednesday. Under the agreement, the two sides will work together to...
A Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle carrying two satellites made by Dauria Aerospace successfully lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9.36 a.m. on Friday. The Soyuz launch vehicle being readied for takeoff at the Baikonur cosmodrome this...
A delegation of more than 40 representatives of South Korea’s LG Electronics visited the Skolkovo innovation centre on Monday to investigate opportunities for cooperation and meet some of Skolkovo’s hi-tech startups. LG Electronics' CTO...
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 movers and shakers of Russia's space industry gathered on March 3 for the annual In Space forum. Discussions included cooperation mechanisms between the state space corporation Roscosmos and Russia's growing wave of private space companies, many...
Aerospace Science Week. Перспективы и задачи развития высокотехнологичных отраслей России: дискуссия промышленников и инноваторов по характеру последствий Industry 4.0 Пленарная дискуссия «Перспективы и задачи развития высокотехнологичных отраслей...
A California-based company has bought the rights to indoor navigation technology developed by Skolkovo resident SPIRIT Navigation . SPIRIT Group, of which the SPIRIT Navigation startup is part, said it had sold all the property rights to the technology to...
Two partnership agreements were announced at the opening of the Startup Village at the Skolkovo innovation centre on Thursday: one with the Chinese company Kunshan Nano New Material, which makes glass for Apple products, and one with Russian mobile operator...
CosmoCourse , a private Russian space exploration enterprise, has become the first company to get approval from federal space corporation Roscosmos for its space tourism project. The company, one of a slew of up-and-coming space startups that have resident...
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...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev cast his eye over innovations from residents of the Skolkovo Foundation this week at the Russian Arms Expo in Nizhny Tagil. Belyakov, left, showing Medvedev the Skolkovo stand. Photo: sk.ru Medvedev, who created...
The MAKS air show has proved to be a significant driver of business for the Skolkovo Foundation, which has overseen deals for several resident companies and announced the completion of construction of a Boeing pilot training facility at the Innovation Center...
Skolkovo resident companies that use technology incorporating Russia’s GLONASS global position system will get their own tech park within the Skolkovo Innovation Center, it emerged Wednesday. Gurko, left and Belyakov shake hands at Navitech. Photo...
Space cluster resident RoboCV has secured $3 million in new investments, allowing the autopilot vehicle developer to launch new international projects. The firm announced in a press release on Wednesday that the A round investments came from from I2BF...
A decision by Dauria Aerospace to cut back on its international activity is “completely expected,” Skolkovo vice president and space cluster executive director Alexey Belyakov told sk.ru. “In a climate of sharply constricting financial...
Russia’s top Earth-monitoring company ScanEx has signed a deal with the Skolkovo Foundation to base a 250 million ruble R&D center at the Innovation Center. ScanEx, operating since 1989, offers a complete set of services ranging from acquisition...
Skolkovo’s flagship partners including Microsoft and Siemens have reiterated their commitment to the project, insisting political turbulence will not blow them off course. At the Hypercube this week the Skolkovo Foundation held its Industrial Advisory...
Skolkovo’s Scientific Advisory Council ended a whirlwind tour of American educational institutions this week by holding its quarterly meeting at Stanford University, where the prospects for Russian science, education and business came under scrutiny....
The Skolkovo Foundation has agreed to issue a grant to a resident of its space and telecoms cluster to develop technology that could see airships take to the skies once more. Atlant, the R&D spinoff of Russia’s only airship constructor Avgur, has...
On June 27 this year the GIFAS Association, the biggest European alliance of aerospace companies, held a meeting with the top management and residents of the Space and Telecommunications Technologies Cluster of the Skolkovo Foundation. The encounter had rather...