Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin cut the ceremonial ribbon to officially open Nobel Street at the Skolkovo Innovation Center on Wednesday, the second day of the Startup Village conference. Medvedev, center, shakes hands with Sobyanin as Arkady Dvorkovich...
The first batch of Skoltech students will celebrate the end of their last year of study in a ceremony at Startup Village, the innovation university’s vice president Alexei Sitnikov told sk.ru. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev with Skoltech student...
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 Biomed Cluster is expecting around 30 to 40 agriculture-based startups to become residents in the coming months as the Russian government moves to encourage high-tech innovation in food production. Skolkovo VP Kirill Kaem, the executive...
The Kremlin and the White House have congratulated Zhores Alferov, a pioneering Soviet physicist and co-chair of Skolkovo’s Scientific Advisory Council, on his 85 th birthday. Photo: sk.ru President Vladimir Putin sent a telegram noting the...
Skolkovo is playing a key role in redressing Russia’s import-export imbalance when it comes to innovations, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev speaking in Novocheboksarsk this week. Photo: government,ru ...
Skolkovo is aiming to contribute 1.5 trillion rubles to the Russian economy by 2020, Foundation president Victor Vekselberg said Friday. Addressing Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s commission on economic modernization at the Hypercube, Vekselberg noted...
Skolkovo Foundation Council co-chairman Craig Barrett voiced confidence on Thursday that the project to diversify Russia’s economy would far outlive the current political troubles. Barrett, Intel chairman until 2009, spoke at the final quarterly meeting...
By James Willsher (Business Weekly) Russian technology clusters and startups are looking to strengthen links with Cambridge, it emerged at Moscow’s Open Innovations forum held last week. Hundreds of Russian startups, state-backed companies and regional...