Igor Shuvalov, the chairman of the state development corporation VEB.RF, has been added to the board of directors of the Skolkovo Foundation and elected its chairman. The decision was made during a board meeting which took place on 29 December. The changes...
Russia has dropped one place in the Global Innovation Index since 2019, placing it between Romania and India. Since its creation in 2007, the Global Innovation Index (GII) has been co-published by Cornell University (US), INSEAD business school (France...
Green technologies are where it’s at these days, especially given the looming and ever present threat of the climate crisis, which has not gone away in spite of Covid-19 dominating the news headlines. Most of the world’s nations signed the Paris...
Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation Arkady Dvorkovich will participate as a distinguished speaker during a panel session titled “The Policy Makers’ Challenge: Navigating Through a Recession”. The session is part of the #GMIS 2020 virtual summit...
Skolkovo Ventures is putting its new company, Station, onto the market. Station will invest in technological solutions aimed at improving the efficiency of interaction between businesses and end consumers. Dentsu Group Inc., a multinational company based in...
The Skolkovo Foundation and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) have agreed to conduct joint work in helping the Institute of Intellectual Property adapt to working in the newly existing technological realities. The agreement was signed by the...
The Skolkovo Foundation’s Asian RoadShow has shown positive results overall, following an array of online meetings and pitch sessions with foreign representatives. Although previous roadshows took place offline, the online format proved efficient and...
The Russia-Indonesia business mission is one of a string of international online business missions that have taken place in recent weeks. This latest one was a collaborative effort by the Skolkovo Foundation, the Russia-Indonesia Business Council, the Trade...
The Skolkovo Foundation, and Hong Kong’s equivalent, the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park Corporation (HKSTP) held an online business mission, giving eight Skolkovo startups working in the biomedical field the opportunity to pitch their solutions...
The Russia-Korea online business mission, organized by the Skolkovo Foundation, KORUSTEC, the Korea Technology and Information Promotion Agency (TIPA), and the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), finished up today. The three-day event consisted of...
The Frisbee platform is based on a corporate messenger and could be integrated with a customer's IT systems. The developers are focusing on supporting national security standards, including encryption, the ability to deploy infrastructure within a country...
The Vietnam-Russia business mission, organized jointly by the Skolkovo Foundation and the Russian Export Center, wrapped up today with B2B meetings between Skolkovo residents and Vietnamese companies. The three-day mission took place in online video format...
The Russia-India business mission was organized jointly by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the Russian Export Center, and the Skolkovo Foundation. During the last day of the mission on July 9, six Skolkovo startups in the fields of healthcare, IT...
In response to the new circumstances that Covid-19 has brought about, the Skolkovo Foundation created the project, “Online Business Mission.” This is a quick and efficient means for developers of technological solutions to link up with foreign partners...
The chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation Arkady Dvorkovich took part in the fourth discussion on “Quantum Technologies Markets: Who Invests and Why?” The event was organized by the Russian Quantum Center, the Roscongress Foundation, and the State...
The Promobot company, a Skolkovo Foundation resident and one of the largest producers of service robots in Europe, has unveiled its new product that can aid in controlling access to buildings. The multifunctional terminal, Promobot Control, scans passports...
The interview was made with QUORUS GmbH and published in Russland Wirtschaft. During a recent interview with Russland Wirtschaft , Michael Donald, a founder and the chairman of the Swiss company ImageNpay, talked about the Skolkovo Foundation’s role in...
The three-day annual business mission to France kicked off today in online format via ZOOM with opening remarks from Victoria Astranina, director of the International Cooperation Department of the Skolkovo Foundation, and Mikhail Makarov, the trade representative...
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, was elected head of the Skolkovo Foundation Board of Trustees during a meeting on Wednesday, which was held via video conference. The Sk.ru website broadcast the event live...
Oz Forensics , a Skolkovo resident company, has been ranked second in the world for its facial recognition technology, which underwent testing through Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) a public benchmark and dataset for facial verification. The technology in...
The Association for the Development of Clusters and Technology Parks of Russia has prepared a review with the support of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. The publication...
The educational online platform Uchi.ru is Russia's only project to be ranked among the world's Top 10 websites in the education category, VC.ru reports, citing Similarweb The Similarweb ranking has regard to indicators, such as the average amount...
The conference for businesses in the field of technology will be held on May 21 and 22 in a new format — Startup Village Livestream’20. The Startup Tour stages in Ufa, Tomsk, and Krasnodar are postponed until September 2020. Hence, the Startup...
The first business mission to Doha of the Skolkovo Foundation and seven of its resident companies was held on February 24th-27th, 2020, The mission was organized by the International Cooperation Department of the Skolkovo Foundation and supported by the Embassy...
“By bringing together our strengths, we can work wonders,” said Arkady Dvorkovich, Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation, speaking during the panel discussion “Qatar-Russia: Direct investment market trends in emerging markets”, held in...