• Fashion of the future: Skolkovo startups present innovations at Russian fashion week

    Amid the hazardous hairstyles and improbable outfits on display at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia last week, it was hard to stand out. But in one of the cavernous rooms of Moscow’s Manezh, where the event took place, some of the startups displaying...

    21 March, 16:47 Collinson Shura
  • ‘It’s nothing that we can’t do:’ why Russia needs its own hi-tech prostheses

    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...

    17 August, 14:36 Collinson Shura
  • Putin examines work of Skolkovo startups at Strategic Initiatives Forum in Moscow

    President Vladimir Putin inspected life-changing medical solutions made by resident companies of the Skolkovo Foundation at the Strategic Initiatives Forum in Moscow on Thursday. President Vladimir Putin greeting a little girl with a prosthetic hand while...

    22 July, 13:12 Collinson Shura
  • Beyond beauty: industrial design festival aims to give Russian startups a commercial makeover

    For three days this week, Skolkovo will be transformed into an international centre of industrial design, promise the organisers of an event aimed at helping tech startups to use design as a tool to commercialize their projects. The idea for the Days...

    28 June, 16:05 Collinson Shura
  • Руки для Вики

    Маленькая девочка в очках была явно ошеломлена скоплением взрослых незнакомых людей. Она бы спряталась за маму, но в этот момент увидела огромную розовую куклу, шедшую ей навстречу. Девочку зовут Вика. Куклу – Мими. Вика приехала в Москву из Омской...

    19 April, 10:28 Baklanov Mikhail
  • Graviton wins Startup Village 2015 pitch competition

    Home security firm Graviton has destroyed the field to win the 2015 Startup Village pitch competition, impressing the judges with its sensor-based system to win the 3 million ruble prize and an invitation to become a Skolkovo resident. Graviton's...

    03 June, 19:31 Nowak David
  • Update available for Startup Village

    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...

    26 May, 13:03 Nowak David
  • Там, где тонко

    Главные тренды 2014 года, способные, по оценке кластеров «Сколково», обеспечить технологический прорыв Sk . ru обратился к кластерам Фонда с просьбой окинуть мысленным взором наиболее заметные технологические события минувшего года и определить...

    19 January, 9:14 Baklanov Mikhail