Robots for diagnostics and surface sanitation, a chat-bot integrated into the MOH’s online portal for providing public consulting support during the pandemic, contactless terminal for body temperature measurement, pass control management platform to be...
Skolkovo Technopark launched the first acceleration program for foreign high-tech companies in 2020. About 25 startups from Uzbekistan take part in it. Their interests range from medicine and agriculture to IT, energy efficiency and industrial technology. Yuri...
One of Russia's largest high tech companies is becoming a partner of Skolkovo Foundation. This is a landmark event for the Skolkovo project, Skolkovo Foundation's BoD Chairman Viktor Vekselberg noted Participants in the BoD meeting held on December...
Applications for this year as part of Skolkovo Foundation's competition to identify the best projects for end-to-end digital technology are now closed. Several dozens of applications were submitted. What makes the competition remarkable is not only its...
In October 2018, at the “Open Innovations” forum, the head of the Russian government, Dmitry Medvedev, was driven around by a “Yandex” unmanned vehicle through the territory of the Skolkovo innovation center. A year later, speaking at...
On 14th of October, Saudi Arabian Oil Company’s President & CEO Amin H. Nasser and Angara Services ’ CEO Ilya Rodin signed a memorandum of understanding for collaboration. Saudi Aramco President & CEO Amin H. Nasser attended the Saudi...
Zhai Lixin, head of Zhongguancun, China's largest and oldest national science and technology park, visited the Skolkovo Innovation Center. Zhongguancun and Skolkovo have been cooperating since 2012, when a cooperation agreement was first signed. The...
The impressive list of Latin American countries with which the Skolkovo Foundation has established productive cooperation (including Ecuador , Argentina , Chile , Cuba , Mexico , Brazil and others) will soon have Colombia added to it. During the visit to Skolkovo...
An innovations cluster is to be established in Moscow, with the president of the Skolkovo Foundation named as one of its curators under a decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday. The cluster will coordinate interaction between industry...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed an agreement with Singapore’s Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) on Wednesday during the ASEAN-Russian summit in Singapore. Alexander Khanin (left), CEO of Skolkovo...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan’s IoT Acceleration Consortium on the eve of the Eastern Economic Forum , following talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe in Russia’s...
Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg and co-chairman of the foundation council Arkady Dvorkovich were appointed Monday to a government commission chaired by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev devoted to modernizing the economy and Russia’s innovative...
Russian healthcare marked a major milestone on Wednesday with the opening of the branch of a top Israeli hospital at the Skolkovo innovation centre, meaning Russians can now access Israeli healthcare without having to leave the country. Prime Minister...
Few countries in the world can benefit from telemedicine and the remote diagnosis and monitoring services it offers as much as Russia, with its enormous territory and multitude of sparsely populated and hard to reach areas. Yet currently, digital healthcare...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed a cooperation agreement on Wednesday with Luxinnovation, the national agency for innovation and research of Luxembourg. Skolkovo's Yury Saprykin (left) and Luxinnovation's Ian Cresswell sign the agreement in Moscow...
A large section of the Skolkovo Technopark was turned into an obstacle course with a difference this week, as people of all ages raced to complete a course that included walking up some steps while holding a tray of apples, opening a door at the top of the...
“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...
Skolkovo resident Hoversurf has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Dubai police after demonstrating its Scorpion flying motorbike at the GITEX technology week in Dubai. Hoversurf demonstrates its human-carrying drone in Dubai this week. Video...
Professor Alexander Kuleshov, president of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ), has been made an officer of France’s Ordre national du Mérite (National Order of Merit). Alexander Kuleshov received the award at a...
Russian entrepreneurs seeking to enter the EU market need look no further than Prague, Skolkovo startups heard this week at a seminar titled “The Czech Republic: A Gateway to the EU Market.” The Czech Republic offers a range of support mechanisms...
A new technopark opened its doors in Russia’s Far East port of Vladivostok on Wednesday, with the aim of fostering tech entrepreneurship and startups there with support from the Skolkovo Foundation. Victor Vekselberg, Olga Vasilyeva and Nikita Anisimov...
Skolkovo aerospace startups were out in force at the MAKS international aviation and space salon, which opened its doors in the aviation hub town of Zhukovsky in the Moscow region on Tuesday. President Vladimir Putin speaking at the opening of the MAKS...
A Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle carrying two satellites made by Dauria Aerospace successfully lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9.36 a.m. on Friday. The Soyuz launch vehicle being readied for takeoff at the Baikonur cosmodrome this...
Russian President Vladimir Putin noted the cooperation between the Skolkovo Foundation and Brazil’s Tecnopuc innovations centre during official talks with his Brazilian counterpart, Michel Temer, at the Kremlin on Wednesday. Vladimir Putin (right...
The fifth annual Startup Village, a giant open-air event for hi-tech entrepreneurs and investors, opened Tuesday at the Skolkovo innovation city with the signing of two key agreements. Philips' Henk de Jong brandishes the symbolic key given to him...