Peter Thiel, a German-American billionaire entrepreneur and investor, caused a near-tidal wave of outrage ahead of the recent U.S. presidential election when he set himself apart from most of Silicon Valley by coming out in favour of Donald Trump. A design...
The Skolkovo Foundation will set up three venture capital funds to provide additional sources of investment for startups, the foundation’s president Victor Vekselberg said Friday at the Open Innovations forum. Skolkovo Foundation president Victor...
Geopolitical tensions will one day be in the past, but the future lies in innovations, Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg told a packed audience of the foundation’s startups on the third and final day of the Open Innovations forum Friday...
Skolkovo resident Anisoprint has attracted 17 million rubles ($270,000) in investment from the NK4 engineering centre under an agreement signed at the Open Innovations forum on Thursday. Fyodor Antonov, head of Anisoprint, pictured at work in his lab...
The Skolkovo Foundation’s biomed cluster, which includes an agrotech division, signed two agreements with agricultural companies on Thursday at the second day of the Open Innovations forum. Kirill Kaem, left, and Alexei Kuznetsov, head of RusChemBio...
Two of Russia’s key development institutions, the Skolkovo Foundation and Russian Venture Company (RVC), will combine their efforts next year to organize the Open Innovations Startup Tour (OIST), a roving quest to find and support talented startups in...
Tech entrepreneurs, scientists, representatives of international companies and governments, and investors from all over the world flocked to the Skolkovo innovation centre on Wednesday for the first day of the annual Open Innovations forum. Skolkovo's...
The biggest Technopark in Eastern Europe, speakers from some of the world’s most successful companies, and the latest developments in virtual reality will all be on show next week at the Skolkovo innovation centre when it hosts the annual Open Innovations...