One of the central topics of the “Open Innovations” forum starting October 21 in Skolkovo will be digitalization in healthcare. During all three days of the forum, leaders and experts of the first Russian medical center managed by a foreign hospital...
Skolkovo Foundation Chairman Arkady Dvorkovich spoke at the Indian Energy Forum in New Delhi, and also met with senior executives from major Indian energy corporations. The meeting was attended by Dharmendra Pradhan the Indian Minister of Oil, Gas and Steel...
Amid the driverless cars, robots, virtual reality headsets, industrial equipment and examples of every area of tech on show at the Open Innovations forum held at the Skolkovo Technopark this week, some looked a little out of place. An inviting-looking double...
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...
A driverless taxi created by Russian internet giant Yandex has started operating on the roads of the Skolkovo innovation city after the Skolkovo Foundation signed an agreement with Yandex at the Open Innovations forum, making Skolkovo the first testing area...
Inequality in society and how technology can both exacerbate and reduce it was the dominant theme of the plenary session of the Open Innovations forum at the Skolkovo innovation city on Tuesday. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev outlined the plan for Russia's...
The seventh Open Innovations forum kicked off at the Skolkovo Technopark on Monday with expansive displays of innovative technology and international discussions on the transformative role of tech in areas ranging from transport and retail to agriculture and...
Location: Austria,Vienna Job title, company: Owner, Peter Löschl Businessconsulting;International adviser Austrian Business Agency. The main milestones: -Area Manager at HP; -Director at Siemens; -Member of the Board at automotive...
Following on from its top-level participation at last year’s Open Innovations forum at the Skolkovo Technopark, Luxembourg will once again play a key role in this year’s event on October 15-17, sending a trade delegation of 40 companies. Ahead of...
Skolkovo’s Startup Village and the plenary session of the Open Innovations forum have made it through to the final of the Best Experience Marketing Awards . Both Skolkovo events are nominated in the same category: best solution in event marketing and...
Russia’s official position on the potentially lucrative field of asteroid mining is that it is outlawed by the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which declares that space is “the province of mankind,” and that its use and exploration must “benefit...
Robots, drones, body scanners, 3D printers, hi-tech models and hydroponic systems filled the giant Skolkovo Technopark this week, as tech companies from all over Russia demonstrated their wares at the Open Innovations forum. VIST Mining Technology's...
“Study, study, and study some more!” is one of the most often cited sayings of revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin. One hundred years after Lenin’s Bolshevik coup, Russia is undergoing another revolution. This time, it’s digital rather...
The Open Innovations forum kicked off on Monday morning at the Skolkovo innovation centre, attracting an estimated 18,000 people from all over the world to Russia’s biggest conference and exhibition devoted to homegrown innovative tech solutions. ...
This year’s Open Innovations tech forum will be hosted by the Skolkovo innovation centre, the event’s organizing committee headed by Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich has decided. The forum, which this year runs from October 26-28, will...
RBTH selected the five most promising tech innovations at the Open Innovations Technology Show, which was held in Moscow on October 29 to November 1. Smart cot Young parents almost always feel angst regarding their infants, but now they can count...
Skolkovo celebrated its fifth birthday in style on Monday, receiving recognition from Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as an innovation center of global standing. Dmitry Medvedev speaking at the Google Hangout. Photo: sk.ru Medvedev, who signed the...
Skolkovo nuclear cluster resident Optogard Nanotech has completed a six-day trip to China that saw the firm sign a contract to supply the country’s largest pipeline manufacturer, Shandong Trustpipe Industry, with cutting-edge laser technology that toughens...
China’s Tsinghua University Science Park is to build research facilities at the Skolkovo Technopark, while the Moscow-based innovation center will be represented at the Beijing institute, Skolkovo Foundation president Viktor Vekselberg was quoted as saying...
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...
Skolkovo put 12 of its top energy startups on display Wednesday at the second annual Oil and Gas Forum in Moscow, which was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich and moderated by Skolkovo Foundation president Viktor Vekselberg. The first day...
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang were the highest-profile visitors to the Skolkovo stand at the Open Innovations Forum, but the Foundation’s resident companies also attracted a wealth of attention from...
A wireless pacemaker for the heart has won first place in a joint contest held by the Skolkovo Foundation and the Federal Agency for Science Organizations at the Open Innovations exhibition in Moscow. All 14 of the finalists in Thursday’s contest will...
Skolkovo is exhibiting its top resident companies at the Open Innovations Forum in Moscow. Here are some of their stories from the Skolkovo stand, which is the de facto centerpiece of the forum. Marshalling the stand was vice president for communications...
Skolkovo on Wednesday unveiled its inaugural almanac, a major effort to bring smart discussion on the latest biotechnology advances to a broad audience in Russia. Issue One discusses the field of so-called omics – a collection of biology study areas...