The pace of change in Russia appears slow at the moment. Ongoing events in the Crimea suggest an inward-looking country that has no ear for global opinion and is set on acting like the angry Soviet bear that we know from the Cold War. The perception,...
As the political situation in Russia become more uncertain with the international community, there was a decision to be made to go to Russia and attend the Startup Village event, organized by SKOLKOVO. After a few deliberations with people in the region...
On January 22 the All-Russia Startup Tour visited Saransk, the administrative center of Mordovia. This city became widely known after it was recognized as one of the best places to live in Russia and French movie star Gerard Depardie said he wanted to stay...
The 2014 road show of the Russian development institutions - Russian Startup Tour – is be carried out for the second time. Yesterday it started from Togliatti, a beautiful city on Volga river with strong industrial history, as the biggest Russian car...
Togliatti was the first Russian city, where The Russian Startup Tour - 2014 started today. The road show, organized by the Skolkovo Foundation, together with Rosmolodezh, RVC and Rusnano covers 27 cities, nearly twice as much as the previous tour. Pekka Viljakainen...
Skolkovo’s IT cluster resident VisionLabs became the only Russian company among the 12 best world startups according to American Intel Technology To Market Accelerator@UC Berkeley (T2MA). The key expertise of VisionLabs include video recognition algorithms...
A dozen of startups and “R&D Center Siemens” will represent the Foundation at the St. Petersburg International Economics Forum, with its main programme starting tomorrow, on June 20. Victory at Startup Village – tour to St. Petersburg...
Four out of five finalists of IBM SmartCamp in Russia – SiproTEK (STEK) (optimization of energy consumption during oil extraction), RACS (algorithmic trade with financial derivatives), AngioScan (non-invasive methods of early diagnostics) and Sinezis...
Right after the Startup Village we met with the team of startup Optic2Connect – the winner of the Skolkovo grant – Insead graduates Christoph Salentin and Ching Eng Jason Png. Both are graduates of the prestigious Insead Executive Program, active...
The Skolkovo Foundation was set up in 2010 to change the perception of Russia from an old mineral-export country to a new investor-friendly economy. For three years its progress has been patchy, but all that may now be changing Every city in the world...
On May 27-28, 2013 the first international conference of startup companies and investors “Startup Village” took place at Hypercube of the Skolkovo Innovation Center. During two days more than 5,000 people participated in the conference – representatives...
International festival of innovations that unite startup companies, investors, innovators and high-tech companies Venue: Skolkovo Hypercube (indoor and outdoor) Program Structure 4 themes for pitch sessions Cleantech technologies Life Sciences...
A large-scale project Russian Startup Tour enters its homestretch. Experts have traveled more than 10 thousand kilometers, visited 16 cities and reviewed more than 200 innovative projects, and today they announced the results of the event. Pekka...
A new and increasingly popular international social network Dreamdo will be presented at the StartUp Village. The project was created in Finland. The founders of this new social network were invited to Russia to participate in the StartUp Village by Pekka Vilyakainen...
Sergei Arkhipov, deputy general director of United Heavy Machinery (OMZ), commented on the benefits of cooperation with the Skolkovo Foundation. The first event in the Russian StartUp Tour was held March 1 in Yekaterinburg , where the tour coincided with...
Alexey Beltyukov Senior Vice-President of the Skolkovo Foundation participated in the Russian StartUp Tour in Astrakhan. In an interview he spoke of startups commercialization and shared an insight regarding the Tour’s accomplishments and the quality...
Development of innovative space business was discussed with prominent Russian and international experts at Startup Village at the session led by the space cluster executive director Sergey Zhukov. Ken Davidyan, Director for Science of the Department of Federal...
Startup Village producer, Alina Suslova speaks about the conference preparation and agenda. ― Startup Village is an event of unprecedented scale in Russia. Some of the biggest events of the past featured 500 members. We are setting a new record of...
The Russian StartUp Tour event held in Tyumen took place March 20th. Maria Radion, CEO of the Tyumen Technopark "West-Siberian Innovation Center" business incubator comments on the results and significance of this event for the innovation community...
Pekka Viljakainen, advisor to the president of the fund on work with start-ups, shared his thoughts and the main conclusions about the Russian StartUp Tour after the first 10 cities of Russia Pekka, now that the Russian StartUp Tour has crossed the symbolic...
Pekka A. Viljakainen Chairman of Organizational Committee twitter @pviljakainen Субтитры на русском You can get the official powerpoint presentation English Russian
Yesterday the Tyumen Technopark hosted the opening stage of the Russian StartUp Tour road show - a massive project of Russian development institutes. The aim of the project is to create startup communities of talented young entrepreneurs, investors, technology...
A post by Pekka A. Viljakainen On Sunday, we started a tour that covers all of Russia. On the tour we’ll be covering entrepreneurship, start-ups, leadership and growth. I got the central institutions andministries, as well as the biggest banks on...
Startup Village will be held for the first time and will be hosted annually by Skolkovo and other partners. It is going to be the largest technological startup conference in Russia. The organizers - the Fund "Skolkovo" and its partners. http...
A recent Startup Village event in Moscow organized by the Skolkovo Foundation celebrated and showcased Russian innovation, positioning Moscow as an emerging tech hub. The event rolled into Moscow after visiting 16 cities across Russia, clocking more...