• Стартап-тур - 2015 подошел к финишу

    В подмосковном Красногорске завершился последний этап Стартап-тура - 2015. Инновационное роуд-шоу прошло в нынешнем году по 10 городам России, а также побывало в Алма-Ате и Минске. В заключительный день подмосковного этапа тура жюри определило 15 победителей...

    30 April, 18:22 Baklanov Mikhail
  • Russian startups mature, but need more tenacity - Pekka Viljakainen

    Russia’s high-tech startups are getting better by the year, but innovators need to be more persistent to commercialize their solutions, said Pekka Viljakainen, advisor to Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg and an ever-present in three editions of the...

    29 April, 13:03 Nowak David
  • Krasnoyarsk startups told to dumb down their pitches

    The Krasnoyarsk stage of the 2015 Startup Tour ended with two local companies invited to the Startup Village pitch sessions in Moscow and a message for all participating innovators: Dumb down your pitches! The city in eastern Siberia was the ninth stop on...

    07 April, 15:05 Nowak David
  • Startup Tour leaves the Far East, but Skolkovo stays behind

    The Startup Tour may have left Russia’s Far East, but the Skolkovo Foundation remains in the region for the foreseeable future with the Vladivostok branch beginning its official operations on Monday. The winners in Vladivostok. Photo: sk.ru ...

    06 April, 11:48 Nowak David
  • Skolkovo opens Far East branch in Vladivostok

    Skolkovo Foundation chairman Andrei Burenin on Thursday announced the opening of a Skolkovo branch in Vladivostok to accelerate the commercialization of new technology from all over Russia’s Far East. Speaking at the eighth stage of the Russian Startup...

    02 April, 10:40 Nowak David
  • Dvorkovich: Startup Tour 2016 to include Armenia, Kyrgyzstan

    The expansion of Russia’s biggest innovations roadshow shows no signs of abating, with Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich saying the Startup Tour is to take in Armenia and Kyrgyzstan next year. The stops on this year's Startup Tour. ...

    01 April, 16:31 Nowak David
  • St. Petersburg delights with cow pregnancy tests and ‘Internet of Vegetables’

    A wind generator, a cow pregnancy test and the curiously titled Internet of Vegetables were among the victors in the pitch contest at the seventh stage of the Startup Tour, which wrapped up in St. Petersburg this week. The winners of the pitch sessions...

    27 March, 9:57 Nowak David
  • Cattle-farming innovations triumph at Kazakh pitch sessions

    ALMATY, Kazakhstan - The top two biomedical innovations at the Startup Tour in Almaty this week seek to modernize cattle rearing in Kazakhstan, with promising knock-on effects for the meat and dairy industries. Ruslan Altaev of Skolkovo's Biomed Cluster...

    20 March, 16:35 Nowak David
  • Стартап-тур в Алма-Ате: импульс для инновационного развития

    Проведение стартап-тура в Алма-Ате придаст импульс инновационному развитию этого первого по величине города Казахстана. Уверенность в этом выразил Асет Исекешев, министр по инвестициям и развитию Республики Казахстан, который открыл этап стартап-тура в Алма...

    19 March, 10:15 Mungalov Dmitry
  • Application process opens for Startup Village 2015

    The Skolkovo Foundation began accepting applications Monday for the pitch sessions at Startup Village, Eastern Europe’s biggest innovations conference, at the Innovation Center on June 2-3. Last year's Startup Village attracted around 10,000...

    02 March, 14:35 Nowak David
  • Казань: четвертый город Всероссийского стартап-тура

    Четвертый этап Всероссийского стартап-тура пройдет 3-4 марта в Казани. Предварительный список проектов , которые будут представлены на конкурсе презентаций, опубликован. Регистрация участников продолжается, а значит, проектов-финалистов станет больше, сообщили...

    27 February, 18:14 Efendieva Marina
  • RST2015: Rostov pitch session winners revealed

    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...

    05 February, 11:01 Nowak David
  • 7 фактов о Ростове-на-Дону, где начинается Стартап-тур-2015

    Ростов-на-Дону - это своего рода российский Стамбул, он стоит на границе между Европой и Азией. Левый, южный, берег Дона (или Левбердон, как его называют местные) расположен в Азии, правый, северный, — в Европе. Трудно найти более символичное место для...

    30 January, 9:46 Baklanov Mikhail