The three-day annual business mission to France kicked off today in online format via ZOOM with opening remarks from Victoria Astranina, director of the International Cooperation Department of the Skolkovo Foundation, and Mikhail Makarov, the trade representative...
Pierre Levy, the French Ambassador to Russia, was quite surprised when, during a visit to a Skoltech laboratory, he saw an Eiffel Tower in miniature, which was made as a test product for controlling a 3D printer. The tower has been reproduced with the...
“We are still having our dating time in order to better understand the capabilities of Skolkovo.” These were the exact words used by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of AvtoVAZ and Senior Vice President of Renault Nicolas Maure to describe...
This year’s Startup Village , a giant two-day open-air conference for tech entrepreneurs and investors held at the Skolkovo innovation city, was more international than ever before, with startups from Japan, France, Italy, Bangladesh and Korea all taking...
When tech startups are being considered for resident status at the Skolkovo innovation centre, one of the conditions for acceptance is that their product or service must have potential for export. Skolkovo’s mission is not import substitution; on the...
Skolkovo took its cooperation with one of Europe’s biggest tech startup nations to a new level this week, with the visit of the French ambassador to the innovation city and the signing of a memorandum of understanding with two French business organisations...
Professor Alexander Kuleshov, president of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ), has been made an officer of France’s Ordre national du Mérite (National Order of Merit). Alexander Kuleshov received the award at a...
Nine Skolkovo startups are heading to the French capital this week to exhibit their innovative solutions at Paris Retail Week , one of the biggest events in the European retail industry. Paris Retail Week attracts visitors and participants from all over...
Hot on the heels of other major French retailers scouring the Skolkovo innovation city for new technologies, a team of talent scouts from the Decathlon Group chain of sports stores met with a range of Skolkovo startups on Monday with a view to adopting their...
The French pharmaceutical company Servier was on the lookout for promising Russian technology at the Skolkovo Technopark on Tuesday, when it met with startups with a view to snapping up their solutions for its innovative e-health activities. Marina Tsverkun...
RUSSIAN-FRENCH CENTER FOR ENERGY-EFFICIENCY On June 4-5 th , a business mission organized by the Skolkovo Foundation and the Russian-French Center for Energy Efficiency was held in France with the assistance of the Russian Economic Development Ministry...