The Skolkovo Foundation has teamed up with the multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company Bayer to launch a competition to help biotech startups advance their projects and secure their intellectual property rights. The competition, titled Patents...
Optogard Nanotech , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation, has raised 110 million rubles ($1.8 million) in financing from Garant, a group investing in industrial projects. Under the terms of the deal, the investors and company founders have become partners...
Senior representatives of the intellectual property offices of the BRICS countries met at the Skolkovo innovation centre on Tuesday to exchange ideas on helping startups to secure their property rights. Representatives of intellectual property offices...
The only branch of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Europe and the former Soviet Union began operating out of the Skolkovo Innovation Centre this month. WIPO, a United Nations agency tasked with promoting the protection of intellectual...
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...
Angel investors may earn their nickname in the noble quest to rescue cash-starved startups, but, as revealed in a recent meeting of the Skolkovo Business Angels Club, they can be positively fiendish in forcing them to justify their salvation. The business...
Skolkovo is aiming to contribute 1.5 trillion rubles to the Russian economy by 2020, Foundation president Victor Vekselberg said Friday. Addressing Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev’s commission on economic modernization at the Hypercube, Vekselberg noted...