A 3D printer that prints buildings, a system for destroying toxic algae using an electrical current and a method of monitoring employees' health via a device worn on their clothes were among the futuristic industrial startups competing for prizes at the...
As Russia marked Russian Science Day on February 8, a delegation from Germany’s Helmholtz Association of research centres visited the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) to discuss ways of improving cooperation between the two countries’...
Джордж Буш как-то сказал Тони Блэру: «Что вы хотите от этих французов, у них даже нет слова «entrepreneur». Эту байку рассказал министр экономики, промышленности и цифровых технологий Франции Эмманюэль Макрон, выступая в Сколтехе перед большой...
The Skolkovo Foundation signed a cooperation agreement with France’s EDF energy company on Monday, hours ahead of a visit to the innovations hub by the French Minister for Economy, Industry and Digital Affairs. The cooperation agreement with EDF, France’s...
Крупнейшая государственная электроэнергетическая компания Франции Группа EDF подписала меморандум о сотрудничестве с Фондом. Подписи под документом поставили вице-президент EDF по региону Центральной и Восточной Европы Пьер де Фирмас и вице-президент Фонда...
На протяжении большей части своей истории Чили страдала от собственного географического положения: узкая полоска земли, протянувшаяся на 4 тысячи километров с севера на юг между Тихим океаном и Андами. Пустыня Атакама на севере, ледники на юге, цунами и землетрясения...
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich welcomed students on the Stanford US-Russia Forum (SURF) to Skoltech this week, urging young scientists do their utmost to influence politicians at such events. Arkady Dvorkovich with SURF students at Skoltech...
The MAKS air show has proved to be a significant driver of business for the Skolkovo Foundation, which has overseen deals for several resident companies and announced the completion of construction of a Boeing pilot training facility at the Innovation Center...
A ceremony at Skolkovo on Tuesday saw one of the world’s leading steel pipeline producers lay the first stone in the construction of a new research center at the innovations hub. Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg, left, and TMK chairman Dmitry...
One of Russia’s largest manufacturers of electricity generators and electric motors is to form a research center at Skolkovo under an agreement worth 280 million rubles and signed at Startup Village this week. Grachev, right, and Shcherbakov at...
A major investment fund that provides the government with technology solutions in the energy industry is to base its research center at Skolkovo under a deal signed at Startup Village this week. The signing ceremony at Startup Village. Photo: sk.ru ...
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...
Компания Адаплаб приняла участие в конкурсе Техностарт 2015 в числе 20 финалистов. В рамках подготовки к конкурсу активно проводилась менторская сессия, где мы получили ценные советы экспертов из области машиностроения, инвесторов технического сектора...
A wind generator, a cow pregnancy test and the curiously titled Internet of Vegetables were among the victors in the pitch contest at the seventh stage of the Startup Tour, which wrapped up in St. Petersburg this week. The winners of the pitch sessions...
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...
The fifth stage of the Russian Startup Tour culminated this week with four teams from Yekaterinburg winning an invitation to the Startup Village in Moscow. The finalists in Yekaterinburg. Photo: sk.ru The capital of the Ural Mountains region was...
Texas-based Propell Technologies, which owns an exclusive license to use clean fracking technology developed by a Skolkovo resident, has received a $5 million investment from Roman Abramovich's Ervington Investments. The deal, announced this week, spells...
An initiative by the Russian Energy Ministry and private business could see Russian startups unleashed on the country’s oil wells as extracting gets tougher and foreign expertise dries up. The chill in foreign relations comes at a time when the so...
Skolkovo put 12 of its top energy startups on display Wednesday at the second annual Oil and Gas Forum in Moscow, which was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich and moderated by Skolkovo Foundation president Viktor Vekselberg. The first day...
The Skolkovo Foundation over the weekend wound up a trip to India that strengthened business and education ties with Russia. Speaking on the sidelines of a board meeting, foundation president Viktor Vekselberg noted that “business between Russia and...
EnSol Technologies, a Skolkovo resident tech startup, has entered a cooperation agreement with Panasonic to develop a new battery for forklift trucks that could double the efficiency of warehouse work. Many industrial forklifts and other electric reach vehicles...