A delegation from the United Arab Emirates visited the Skolkovo innovation city on Thursday to discuss cooperation in areas including food technology. L-R: Skolkovo's Arkady Dvorkovich, Mariam Al Mehairi and Skolkovo Ventures' Vasily Belov. Photo...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed a raft of agreements with both Russian and international companies and venture funds at the Open Innovations forum this week. Skolkovo's chairman of the board Igor Drozdov (left) and Russian Post's Nikolai Podguzov...
Russian Railways (RZD) is to invest 300 million rubles ($4.8 million) in the industrial fund of Skolkovo Ventures as part of the state rail monopoly’s work to use innovative Russian technology to modernise the industry and make it more efficient. Together...
The Skolkovo Foundation announced the official launch of Skolkovo Ventures – three new investment funds devoted to IT, industrial technology and biotech – at the Startup Village open-air conference on Tuesday. The investment funds have been set...
The Skolkovo Foundation will spend the next few years focusing on developing tech entrepreneurship in Russia’s regions, the foundation’s chairman of the board told a meeting of its scientific advisory council on Tuesday. Nobel prize winners...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed a strategic business cooperation agreement with the Russian division of Japan’s Panasonic Corporation during a state visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the island nation on Friday. Skolkovo vice president...
The Skolkovo Foundation has signed two cooperation agreements on the sidelines of the two-day Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), which kicked off Friday in Russia's Far Eastern port city of Vladivostok. The agreements were signed with the Korea Institute...
The Skolkovo Foundation took its ongoing cooperation with Cuba to a new level on Friday with a visit by the island nation’s second-in-command, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez. Bermudez, first vice president of Cuba’s State Council and Council of Ministers...
Russia and Israel look set to join forces to improve efficiency on Russian farms after Israel’s agriculture minister visited the Skolkovo Foundation last week, where it was agreed that a working group should be set up to facilitate joint research and...
Day one of Startup Village saw deals signed or announced to the tune of $272 million, organizers have announced. .One of Tuesday's 14 deals being signed by Skolkovo's senior vice president Vasily Belov, center. Photo: sk.ru One of Startup Village’s...
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...
Skolkovo’s $200 million deal with Cybernaut to stimulate Russian-Chinese innovation won prominent coverage in the world's media this week, with references to “a big move for Sino-Russian economic relations” that may have “a significant...
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...
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...