“Don’t waste your time waiting for COVID-19 to dry out; if you have an investment project - you can start it online”. That’s what Pekka Viljakainen says, a venture investor from Finland and an advisor to the Chairman of the Board of...
"It's like Dropbox, but only for corporate passwords," Andrei Pyankov, CEO of Passwork , an Arkhangelsk-based company, briefly explains the essence of the product. This conversation took place during the Startup Tour stage in the capital...
A data exchange platform for medical centers and insurance companies developed by GBooking, a Skolkovo resident, has been on the Top 100 list of startups at the Slush conference, Helsinki. The company has created a platform for exchanging medical records...
The website Wikipedia refers to Andorra as “one of the smaller states of Europe” and says that the country’s name probably comes from the word “andurrial,” which, in the Navarro-Aragonese dialect, means “shrub-covered land”...
Ambassadors from more than 50 countries visited the Skolkovo innovation city on Wednesday to meet with the Skolkovo Foundation’s senior management and hear more about opportunities for international tech companies and startups. An ambassador tests...
The annual Skolkovo Startup Village kicked off with two signing ceremonies and various jokes about the chilly weather on Thursday as startups, investors and major tech figures from all around the world gathered at the Skolkovo innovation city for Eastern Europe’s...
PERM — A medical training simulator, high-temperature 3D printer and automated geological prospecting system won their respective inventors tickets to Skolkovo’s Startup Village at the final of the Startup Tour in Perm on Wednesday. The winners...
PERM — The Open Innovations Startup Tour 2018 began its journey across Russia to promote tech entrepreneurship on Tuesday, holding its first event of the year in the Urals city of Perm. Maxim Reshetnikov, governor of the Perm region, addresses the...
The annual Open Innovations Startup Tour , the Skolkovo Foundation’s journey across Russia to support tech entrepreneurship in the regions, kicks off Tuesday in the Urals city of Perm. This year, in addition to rewarding the best tech startups in each...
The Open Innovations forum kicked off on Monday morning at the Skolkovo innovation centre, attracting an estimated 18,000 people from all over the world to Russia’s biggest conference and exhibition devoted to homegrown innovative tech solutions. ...
The Golden Autumn agricultural trade fair is to a large extent a celebration of Russian traditions. Individual regions of Russia present their local produce on their own stand, often accompanied by people dressed in folk costumes who sing, dance or play traditional...
An innovative drug described by Skolkovo’s biomed cluster as “female Viagra” and a potentially groundbreaking system of diagnosing endometriosis – a medical condition that affects millions of women around the world – were among...
Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg called on Moscow’s foreign diplomats to make full use of the opportunities offered to international companies by the Skolkovo innovation city on Wednesday. Skolkovo Foundation president Victor Vekselberg...
The fifth annual Startup Village, a giant open-air event for hi-tech entrepreneurs and investors, opened Tuesday at the Skolkovo innovation city with the signing of two key agreements. Philips' Henk de Jong brandishes the symbolic key given to him...
The Skolkovo innovation city is gearing up to host its biggest event of the year on June 6-7: the giant outdoor two-day Startup Village , a conference and exhibition for tech entrepreneurs and investors from all over the world. Startups can take part...
As the Skolkovo innovations city prepares to host its fifth annual Startup Village , a giant two-day festival outside Moscow for entrepreneurs and investors, the event’s godfather, Finnish entrepreneur Pekka Viljakainen , is crystal clear on its draw...
Pekka Viljakainen describes himself as a “Finnish stallion.” His other nickname is “The Bulldozer.” In his mission to instill a culture of entrepreneurship in Russia and transform its economy, the indefatigable Finnish businessman has...
A delegation from the Finnish innovations powerhouse of Turku visited the Skolkovo Technopark on Thursday to explore possible areas of cooperation with the Skolkovo innovation city. Turku Mayor Aleksi Randell (2nd from left) and Skolkovo's Pekka Viljakainen...
ARKHANGELSK — Conditions in the Far North are not easy, and the people who live there are the first to acknowledge that. The Russian government agrees, and in compensation for the long, harsh winters, polar days of little light, and short, cool summers...
ARKHANGELSK — The Open Innovations Startup Tour, the Skolkovo Foundation’s annual roving quest for talented tech startups, kicked off its first visit to the northern Russian city of Arkhangelsk on Monday. Left to right: Pekka Viljakainen,...
The Open Innovations Startup Tour 2017 , a roving search for talented tech startups across Russia and several neighbouring countries, has completed its first stop abroad in the Kazakh city of Almaty, following earlier visits to Russia’s Far Eastern regions...
Nearly 50 resident startups of the Skolkovo Foundation took part in this year's Slush event, a major tech startup conference held on November 30-December 1 in the Finnish capital Helsinki. The startups exhibited their projects on a stand shared with...
HELSINKI - A new Russian venture fund formed jointly by the Skolkovo Foundation and Russian Venture Capital, a state investment vehicle, was presented to an international audience Wednesday at the Slush tech conference in Helsinki. The new fund, Skolkovo...
An armada of Skolkovo startups will head to Helsinki next week for Slush , one of the biggest events in Europe for tech entrepreneurs. Slush attracts thousands of tech entrepreneurs and investors from around the world. Photo: Affe Tavasti / Slush. ...
A group of young Finnish political activists visited the Skolkovo innovation centre on Tuesday to learn about the work of the Skolkovo Foundation and its research university, the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ). Pekka 'The...