• ‘Huge potential’ between India and Russia in spotlight at startup summit

    Russian-Indian economic cooperation may be best known for major military hardware deals, but the future lies in the exchange of hi-tech innovations, speakers resolved at the India-Russia Startup Summit held at the Skolkovo Technopark on Tuesday. Skolkovo...

    11 December, 15:24 Collinson Shura
  • Eastern promise: Russian tech startups in the land of dragons

    Long before he became one of the world’s richest men, Jack Ma applied for a job at KFC when it opened in China. Out of 24 applicants, all were accepted – except Ma, the business magnate himself has said. Now a popular Chinese joke has it that decades...

    26 April, 17:12 Collinson Shura
  • Russian startups get crash course in entering Japanese market

    The Japanese market does not have the reputation of an easy place to do business for foreign companies. But with its high-income, tech-savvy population, it is a dream for many innovative businesses, and neighbouring Russia is no exception. To help Russian hi...

    13 February, 14:08 Collinson Shura
  • Найти инвестора и не пожалеть: в Сколково обсудили превратности венчурных сделок

    Как стартапу привлечь не простые, а «умные» деньги, какими критериями руководствуются инвесторы, какие сложности подстерегают команду на этапе подготовки к сделке, как навести в компании порядок и не попасть под каток юридических санкций? За один...

    29 April, 15:11 Efendieva Marina
  • How e-health could revolutionise Russian healthcare: the Netherlands shares its experience

    In the Netherlands, a leader in the fast-growing field of e-health, people living with Parkinson’s disease are not alone, whatever their personal situation. ParkinsonNet – a network of doctors, health professionals specializing in Parkinson’s...

    27 April, 11:27 Collinson Shura
  • В Сколтехе заглянули в будущее энергетики

    На минувшей неделе про изменение климата и механизмы противодействия ему говорили не только на конференции в Париже. В Сколтехе обсудили пути перехода от промышленной эры, основанной на использовании ископаемого топлива, к экологичным способам производства...

    17 December, 8:30 Mungalov Dmitry
  • 'Caring for people in their environment'

    The Skolkovo Innovation Center is often praised for the rate at which it is sprouting out of the ground on a patch of land just west of Moscow. Just a few years into the project, hundreds of resident companies are already here, as is the Skoltech university...

    01 September, 9:21 Nowak David
  • 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
  • Startup Tour puts Ufa on the map of Russian innovation

    The Startup Tour completed its penultimate stop this week on its three-month journey around Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, putting the central city of Ufa firmly on the map of Russian innovation. ThUfa's State Petrochemical Technological University...

    23 April, 10:42 Nowak David
  • Catalyzing angel investment in Almaty

    ALMATY, Kazakhstan - It’s springtime in downtown Almaty, though winter is blowing its last frigid gusts off the snowy peaks of the Zailiyskiy Alatau mountain range and around the city's skyscrapers and Soviet-built housing blocks. At a downtown...

    30 March, 12:05 Nowak David
  • A forum of robots, a meeting of minds

    The third Skolkovo Robotics International Conference was a runaway success, attracting a wide array of participants from all corners of the planet and, critically, encouraging the discipline to flourish domestically. The March 20-22 event at the Skolkovo...

    24 March, 11:16 Nowak David
  • Двойную спираль ДНК вплели в тройную спираль Сколтеха

    В Сколтехе состоялись вторые научные чтения. В отличие от первого, ноябрьского, мероприятия, посвященного нескольким разным темам (от квантовой физики и особенностей патентной деятельности до нового энергетического уклада), на этот раз профессора Сколтеха сконцентрировались...

    18 March, 16:02 Mungalov Dmitry
  • 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
  • Startup Tour: Kazan yields DNA analysis, river cleansing technology

    The Russian Startup Tour unearthed some innovative gems in Kazan over the last two days, with six startups invited to Startup Village in Moscow and four million rubles in investments handed out. At the pitch competition in the Kazan IT park on Tuesday and...

    04 March, 19:23 Nowak David
  • Russian Startup Tour reaches Kazan

    More than 140 startups registered an interest to take part in the Kazan stage of the Russian Startup Tour, the fourth stop on the innovations roadshow that runs Tuesday and Wednesday in the Tatarstan capital. The Kazan Kremlin. Photo: flickr The...

    02 March, 10:43 Nowak David
  • ‘We already love you’

    Moving house can be a daunting affair. A new neighborhood, strange faces, different social norms. Now imagine you have to do business in that environment and be successful from day one. Welcome Day at Skolkovo for its new resident companies. Photo: sk...

    26 February, 8:55 Nowak David
  • Nizhny Novgorod offers 29 projects for Russian Startup Tour

    The Russian Startup Tour gathers pace this week with a visit to Nizhny Novgorod, where 29 finalists are to compete for places at June’s Startup Village and a special guest will provide a glimpse into the future of the automobile industry. Nizhny...

    16 February, 10:33 Nowak David
  • Skoltech students throw out textbooks for 3 weeks

    The most creative period in the academic year of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology kicked off Tuesday as students ditched their textbooks to learn everything from snowboarding to stock trading. The independent studies period (ISP) window is...

    13 January, 12:30 Nowak David
  • Igniting omics in Russia

    The concept of omics may still leave most people baffled, but for science communities, this hugely promising approach to biolomedical research is already 25 years old and ignorance could be costly. Skolkovo, for its part, is taking no chances. The Hypercube...

    11 December, 16:43 Nowak David
  • Skoltech scientists talk brains, smart grids at Hypercube

    Top minds from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology gathered in the Hypercube last week to present research trends in the fields of brain evolution, renewable energy and quantum physics. Skolkovo is aiming to become a top international science...

    01 December, 12:40 Nowak David
  • While Helsinki parties hard, Skolkovo startups cram for Slush

    HELSINKI, Finland - While many of Slush’s 10,000 attendees were partying into the night at the grand opening of Europe’s biggest startup conference on Monday night, Skolkovo’s top startups were cramming ahead of a potentially life-changing...

    17 November, 19:44 Nowak David
  • Гарольд Крото: «Образование – это воспитание творческого ума»

    На экране - абсолютно счастливое лицо трехлетней девочки, которой удалось собрать из цветных палочек модель молекулы. За открытие этой молекулы британский профессор Гарольд Уолтер Крото вместе с двумя коллегами был удостоен Нобелевской премии по химии. По-своему...

    16 July, 8:37 Baklanov Mikhail