Startup Village 2021 contained an eclectic selection of speakers from a broad spectrum of sectors, cultures, and backgrounds. One of the key talks – “Houston, We Have a Problem. Post-Crisis Business Check Up” – comprised six speakers...
Rapid Bio, a Skolkovo Foundation (VEB.RF) resident, has developed and registered its own Covid-19 express test jointly with Avivir company and the first of its kind in Russia. The test is designed to detect virus-neutralizing antibodies following the Covid...
Dubai's Annual Investment Meeting (AIM) Eurasia 2021, a partner to the Skolkovo Foundation and Roscongress, kicked off on March 2 in online format. Kirill Kaem, the Skolkovo Foundation’s Senior Vice President for Innovations and member of Roscongress...
The Russia-UK business mission titled “Exploring AI and Automation for Retail?” took place on November 27 and brought together large retailers from the UK, Ireland, and Russia. The goal was to give Skolkovo startup companies the opportunity to present...
The express test created by Skolkovo resident company Rapid Bio can detect Covid-19 within 10-minutes and with 96% accuracy. The test works by detecting IgM and IgG antibodies. IgM antibodies tell of recent infection and disease onset, while IgG antibodies...
The Open Innovations plenary session, “New Digital Norm. Are we ready for a changed world?”, did not just cover the challenges we face in the world today brought about by Covid-19, but also the opportunities it has presented, pushing us towards...
Arkady Dvorkovich, the chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation, took part as one of four keynote debaters at the AIM Digital 2020 Conference in the UAE on October 20, 2020. The online debate was titled, “Reimagining Economies: The Move Towards a Digital,...
President Vladimir Putin today celebrated the start of Open Innovations 2020 in conjunction with the 10-year anniversary of the Skolkovo Foundation's existence. The president also wished guests of the three-day Open Innovations Forum a “constructive...
Oxima, a Skolkovo resident company, has created a mask that is, for now, unique in the world. The company’s founder and CEO Denis Medvedev is a bearded man, meaning that regular masks for him are all but useless. “I made this mask for myself,”...