• 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
  • Forging innovation in metallurgy with EcoSlag

    In the first of a series of interviews, Sk.ru discovers what makes innovators tick in the less glamorous but no less critical field of metallurgy. Recycling steelmaking slag the EcoSlag way. Photo: Amir Shakurov EcoSlag is a Moscow-based firm that...

    10 April, 12:49 Nowak David
  • Optogard Nanotech blazes a trail for Skolkovo in China

    Skolkovo nuclear cluster resident Optogard Nanotech has completed a six-day trip to China that saw the firm sign a contract to supply the country’s largest pipeline manufacturer, Shandong Trustpipe Industry, with cutting-edge laser technology that toughens...

    06 April, 15:27 Nowak David
  • In a world first, Skolkovo resident prints thyroid gland

    Skolkovo biomed cluster resident 3D Bioprinting Solutions has announced the successful printing of a mouse’s thyroid gland. 3D Bioprinting Solutions unveiled Russia's first bioprinter in October. Photo: 3D Bioprinting Solutions If confirmed...

    01 April, 12:31 Nowak David
  • Startup Tour opens door to Skolkovo ecosystem in Kazakhstan

    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...

    20 March, 17:17 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
  • Lin Industrial: A slingshot into space

    Lin Industrial is a Russian startup business that believes sending satellites into space should be less epic blastoff and more paper airplane. Only recently entering the Skolkovo fold as a resident, the company already has a co-investor and is filing for...

    16 September, 9:15 Nowak David