• 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
  • Startup Tour makes final stop of 2015 in Krasnogorsk

    KRASNOGORSK, Moscow Region - Russia's biggest innovations roadshow wound up last week in the Moscow region town of Krasnogorsk. Moscow Region Government headquarters in Krasnogorsk. Photo: sk.ru The Startup Tour, whose goal is to stimulate high...

    29 April, 11:54 Nowak David
  • A glimpse inside Kazakh innovation

    ALMATY, Kazakhstan – Anar Akbarli typifies the new generation of innovators from Central Asia: Progressive, tenacious, and very, very smart. His is a generation tasked with providing a new string to the Kazakh economy’s bow, and if his product pitch...

    26 March, 10:25 Nowak David
  • 10 simple rules for international success

    ALMATY, Kazakhstan – As part of the March 19-20 Startup Tour in Kazakhstan’s second city, Skolkovo’s startup guru Pekka Viljakainen gave a master-class on initiating a high-tech business. During the Finn’s 35-minute presentation at the...

    24 March, 9:54 Nowak David
  • Startup Tour opens door to Skolkovo ecosystem in Kazakhstan

    ALMATY, Kazakhstan - The Kazakh stage of the Startup Tour concluded on Friday with several innovations winning a place at the Startup Village in June and, perhaps more significantly, the foundations put in place for of a new era of high-tech cooperation between...

    20 March, 17:17 Nowak David
  • Top Kazakh minister opens Startup Tour in Almaty

    ALMATY - Kazakhstan’s Minister for Investment and Development Asset Issekeshev raised the curtain Thursday on the sixth leg of the Russian Startup Tour - and first to take place abroad – with a call to transform Almaty into a major innovations hub...

    19 March, 8:29 Nowak David
  • The day the Russian Startup Tour ceases to be ‘Russian’

    A key message that Skolkovo transmits its startups is the need to expand into new territories. Now it is leading by example: This week, Russia’s biggest innovations roadshow ventures abroad for the first time in its five-year history. Almaty - the...

    13 March, 14:02 Nowak David
  • 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