“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow,” the Roman poet Ovid wrote two millennia ago. The world may have changed a lot since...
Elmira Safarova, the recently appointed science director of the Skolkovo Foundation’s biomed cluster, has a unique perspective in her new role: in her last job, she was head of a startup that had resident status within the foundation. Elmira Safarova...
Dr. Rupert Gerzer came to work at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) one year ago as an associate director of the research university’s Space Center, but as a qualified medical doctor, he does not hide the fact that his heart...
On September 1, the start of the school year across Russia, the Skolkovo International Gymnasium is welcoming students to its new premises under a new director. With the school’s permanent future campus at the Skolkovo innovation centre still under construction...
Albert Yefimov, director of the Skolkovo Foundation’s Robocentre , is to head a government working group that will produce a plan for the development of Russian robotics. Skolkovo Robocentre head Albert Yefimov. Photo: Sk.ru. The working group...
Alexander Kuleshov, the new president of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), officially took over from the four-year-old research university’s founding president, U.S. professor Edward Crawley, last month. In an interview with...
As both oil prices and the ruble continue to fall, the Startup Tour that is about to begin its annual journey across Russia in search of promising tech companies is needed more than ever before, says Pekka Viljakainen, the project’s creator and an advisor...
The days when people used their mobile phones primarily to make calls are long gone. New research by professional services company Deloitte showed that about 22 percent of smartphone users in the U.K. make no “traditional” calls in a given week...
In the final interview of a three-part series investigating what makes innovators in the metallurgy industry tick, sk.ru showcases the founder of Skolkovo startup Vapour Metallurgy, Dmitri Terekhov. The innovation is all about creating value-added...
Sk.ru continues its series on innovators in the metals industry, speaking this week to one of the founders of Skolkovo resident FerrAl-Tech, a high-tech startup that is developing a novel way of removing the oxygen from steel during the steelmaking process...
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...
The recent appointment of Yuri Nikolsky at the Skolkovo Foundation’s biomed technologies cluster appears to be bearing fruit already: The pharmaceuticals guru says several new companies are about to join the group’s 200-strong residents. Nikolsky...
Skolkovo has had its second visit in three months by a Spanish science park delegation. After Luis Sanz, the Director General of the International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation, took part in June’s Startup Village, the Foundation...
Luis Sanz, Director General of the International Association of Science Parks (IASP), gave an interview to an Sk.ru correspondent after his speech at the visionary session of Startup Village. The International Association of Science Parks with its European...
As technology develops and private companies expand into intergalactic travel, vacationing and working in space seems to be less and less far-fetched. Elena Shipilova of Russia Beyond the Headlines spoke with Sergei Zhukov , head of the Space...