Russian President Vladimir Putin named two key figures at the Skolkovo Foundation among the foreign recipients of friendship awards on Wednesday. Pekka Viljakainen, a Finnish advisor to Skolkovo president Viktor Vekselberg, and Edward Crawley, the American...
A delegation of Ethiopian officials visited the Skolkovo Foundation on Friday as the African country seeks to boost its ties with Russia in the field of science and technology. The Ethiopian delegation visited the Skolkovo Foundation last week to talk...
Edward Crawley, the charismatic U.S. professor who has headed the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) since its founding, on Friday officially handed over his duties as president to his Russian successor, Dr. Alexander Kuleshov. Edward...
What child wouldn’t like to meet a robot, or a professor of astronautics? These were two of the recent visitors to the Skolkovo International Gymnasium , a private school attached to the Skolkovo innovation hub. But the purpose of such visits to the...
Four years after the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) was founded, the startup university has finally moved into its own purpose-built campus, and has succeeded in luring accomplished Russian diaspora scientists back to Russia after periods...
The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) has selected a paper by Professor Alessandro Golkar and Skoltech President Edward Crawley to receive the Systems Engineering journal’s 2014 Best Paper of the Year Award, reports the university’s...
In building the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, it would be an “extraordinary waste of energy” to simply create another MIT, the president of the fledgling Russian innovations university, Ed Crawley, has said in televised remarks....
A prominent US diplomat said Monday that Skolkovo’s partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is more important now than ever. In opening remarks at the US-Russia Research Symposium in the Russian capital, Jeffrey Sexton, minister...