You have seven days to think up an original idea for a tech startup. You are put in a team with several other people whom you haven’t met before and whose area of expertise is not the same as yours. After a week, you will present your project to a team...
Lake Baikal, the world’s oldest and deepest lake, is in danger. For several years now, the water near the shores of the vast Siberian lake has been turning green with algae, and satellite images reveal that that is only a small part of a much bigger problem...
Konstantin Deblikov deftly extends one black, bionic finger to rub the side of his nose as he talks. The casual observer might think that the young journalist from Voronezh has complete mastery of his bionic hands, but his dexterity belies the struggle that...
ExoAtlet , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation that makes medical exoskeletons to help disabled people walk, has received official registration as medical equipment for its systems. ExoAtlet pilot Sergei Rubinshtein walks with his wife Galina...
Skolkovo resident DRD Biotech has unveiled its testing kits for swiftly determining the risk of a stroke. DRD Biotech presented its testing kits in the company's hometown of Ulan-Ude, capital of Russia's Buryatia republic . The tests are...
“What’s Russia famous for? The Kalashnikov – the AK47,” says Vladimir Mironov, chief scientific officer at 3D Bioprinting Solutions . “Well now we have a different motto: not shoot to kill, but shoot to heal – using a tissue...
The winners of the far eastern stage of the Skolkovo Foundation’s Startup Tour have been announced in Vladivostok, with projects in the biomedicine category leading the way. About 120 projects were presented to the jury in the categories of IT, industrial...
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says Skolkovo is starting to produce tangible results, despite being less than five years old. From left: Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg, his advisor Pekka Viljakainen, and Prime Minister Medvedev. Photo: sk.ru ...
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...
Seventeen innovations received recognition at the Minsk stage of the Startup Tour this week, with four projects winning a place in the pitch sessions at Startup Village in Moscow this summer. The winners of the Belarus pitch sessions. Photo: sk.ru ...
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - The Kazakh stage of the Startup Tour concluded on Friday with several innovations winning a place at the Startup Village in June and, perhaps more significantly, the foundations put in place for of a new era of high-tech cooperation between...
The special health authority that plays a key role in deciding which medicines and healthcare devices are bought up and distributed across Britain’s National Health Service came to Skolkovo on Friday in search of new innovations. Representatives from...
Adaptive toys for rehabilitation and a robotic assistant surgeon were among 13 winning innovations at the first stage of the Russian Startup Tour in Rostov-on-Don. More than 100 projects from the southern city and surrounding region competed for a place...
It took his grandfather’s brush with death to turn Leonid Glushchenko into an innovator. He was a fresh-faced, 21-year-old medical student at a university on the Volga River when the pensioner developed a life-threatening blood clot. Saving Pyotr...
A 30 million ruble grant from the Skolkovo Foundation is helping a team of Russian scientists develop potentially one of the most effective drugs yet to fight cardiovascular disease – the primary cause of death in Russia and the wider world. Dmitry...