For many Russian tech startups, the colossal U.S. market with its abundance of investors seems like the promised land. The U.S. also happens to be the Skolkovo Foundation’s most active partner, the foundation’s president Victor Vekselberg told foreign...
“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow,” the Roman poet Ovid wrote two millennia ago. The world may have changed a lot since...
We all want to get the most out of our money, but most of us can’t afford to take large risks with our savings, and many have no savings at all, or are in the red. An estimated 40 million Russians are in debt , having borrowed 11 trillion rubles ($184...
Few knew of Galina Balashova's remarkable work on the Soviet space programme until a few years ago. "By day I worked on renovating buildings, by night I designed the inside of spaceships,” she says. Galina Balashova, left, presenting her...
Galina Balashova, the Soviet architect who designed generations of Soviet spacecraft interiors, will give a talk at the Skolkovo Technopark on Thursday as part of the annual Days of Industrial Design festival. Archive designs of spacecraft interiors by...
The occasions when it’s justifiable to trot out the well-worn opening lines of Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” (“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”) are few and far between, but their...
For any Russian company with international aspirations, the Asian markets are the modern Klondike - and not just because strained relations with the West have made it more difficult for some Russian enterprises to do business there. Asia will be the future...
“The Shaolin Temple itself is a 1,500-year-old startup,” unexpectedly declares Shi Xing Mi, a Shaolin monk dressed in a mustard-coloured martial arts outfit. “It may sound like an oxymoron, but in Shaolin culture, being a startup is not a...
Nineteen years after he went into space, Dr. Reinhold Ewald still can’t eat broccoli. “It was the most mineral-rich vegetable available in space, and I had to eat tons of it,” the German astronaut recalled with laughter as he gave a lecture...
The Moon Village – a permanent lunar base station – should be a truly international affair, and Russian villagers are more than welcome, European Space Agency director general Johann-Dietrich Woerner told professors and students of the Skolkovo...
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...
Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro, world renowned for his research in robot clones, is to hold two special guest lectures at the Skolkovo Institute for Science and Technology. The Japanese robotics scientist from Osaka University, who was the subject of the...
A wind generator, a cow pregnancy test and the curiously titled Internet of Vegetables were among the victors in the pitch contest at the seventh stage of the Startup Tour, which wrapped up in St. Petersburg this week. The winners of the pitch sessions...
Hundreds of Moscow students packed out a lecture theater this week to hear what most of them already believe: Pharma’s Cool. The lecture hall at Moscow’s Sechenov University of Medicine. Photo: sk.ru The three-week lecture series targeting...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan – As part of the March 19-20 Startup Tour in Kazakhstan’s second city, Skolkovo’s startup guru Pekka Viljakainen gave a master-class on initiating a high-tech business. During the Finn’s 35-minute presentation at the...
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 TEDx talk organized by the Skolkovo Foundation and Open University Skolkovo attracted a large crowd to a central Moscow hotel over the weekend, with its theme - "Possible Is Everything" - provoking lively debate and captivating presentations. ...