Viktor Vekselberg, President of the Skolkovo Foundation and Chairman of the Renova Group Board of Directors, gave a press conference on the closing day of the G20 summit. Viktor Vekselberg noted that thanks to the wide range of experts representing a...
It's hard to overestimate the importance of the conference that we are doing together with Siemens in the Hypercube. This is a priority event from the point of view of the implementation of a key element of the concept of Skolkovo - international integration...
The first students of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology met with Viktor Vekselberg, President of the Skolkovo Foundation in their Institute. The students spoke to Alexey Sitnikov, Vice-President of the Institute, Bram Caplan, Director of Student...
The Skolkovo foundation and Sophia Antipolis ( http://www.sophia-antipolis.org/ ) signed a strategic partnership on March 7th 2012, linking France's well established and prestigious science park with Russia's new venture. Skolkovo has the potential...
The first day of Digital Life Design (DLD) , the authoritative international conference on Internet technology and telecommunications that took place at the site of Digital October in Moscow on May 28-29, brought together nearly a thousand people. Initially...
Dmitry Medvedev visited the first Skolkovo’s Innovation City building, the “Hypercube”, held the Modernization and Innovations Council meeting there and made a brief welcome speech at a biomed conference, held by the Skolkovo Foundation there...
One of the key partners of the Skolkovo Foundation, CISCO company, has signed two agreements in the frameworks of the Skolkovo project. Signing took place during the meeting of the working group on innovation of the Bilateral Russian-American Presidential...
President of the Skolkovo Foundation Victor Vekselberg in the Internet conference on Wednesday, December 28, spoke about end-year results and main achievements of the innovation center in 2011, shared the expectations for project results in 2012 and answered...
Efforts to expand collaboration in the high-tech sphere between the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China were high on the agenda for the state visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to China. The package of documents signed during...
A £9.3 million international consortium to make oil refining in Russia more efficient and environmentally sustainable has been given the green light this week. The Skolkovo Foundation has given official approval for the establishment of a Center of...
I am very pleased that this year the Russian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale has received a prestigious award - the Special Jury Prize. For the first time in the history of Russia's participation in this international exhibition we have received...
A Skolkovo Foundation delegation led by President Viktor Vekselberg is setting off on a visit to Britain. This will be the largest delegation the Foundation has ever sent abroad. In addition to several vice presidents, it will also include the heads of the...
One of the documents signed during Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin's state visit to China on 5-7 June 2012 will be a cooperation agreement between the Skolkovo Foundation and the Beijing-based Z-Park. This agreement marks a transition to full...
Skolkovo , the state-sponsored innovation hub nearing completion outside of Moscow, is seeking to extend its cooperation with China. Opportunities for cooperation were discussed last week at the Sino-Russian Trade and Investment Forum by China’s Vice...
Viktor Vekselberg, president of the Skolkovo Foundation who will coordinate the Russian national project of building a R&D complex outside Moscow, met a Nikkei reporter and said that a structural reform based on technological innovation will be the pillar...
The Mobly virtual mobile network that recieved a grant from Skolkovo is going to make mobile communication global, reliable and able to provide Internet. The developers of Russia’s Mobly virtual mobile network have a small goal. All they want is to...
Satellites that can help forecast earthquakes; renewable energy generated from vodka and whisky waste; stent tube advances that can help save lives: These are just three of the processes UK and Russian scientists are developing thanks to funding from Russia’s...
The Skolkovo Innovation Center is intended to accelerate the transformation of Russia from aresource-intensive to an innovation-based economy through strategic partnerships with leadingscientists and corporations. [Photo/China Daily] After...
Perhaps predictably, Gazprom and the Chinese government failed to resolve the major question surrounding President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Beijing this week: the price China will pay for Russian gas deliveries. Still, progress toward other significant...
Transcript of the meeting: D. Medvedev: Greetings from the State Duma. There is not much interest in your project here at the State Duma; there are precedents of much more interest to a project. How are you doing? I recently was at a conference on your premises...
Russia is looking to become a major player for the Silk Road economies - in everything from energy to technology. In 2010, Russia inked a customs union deal with Belarus and Kazakhstan to create a single market of 170 million people. It hopes the agreement...