On 14th of October, Saudi Arabian Oil Company’s President & CEO Amin H. Nasser and Angara Services ’ CEO Ilya Rodin signed a memorandum of understanding for collaboration. Saudi Aramco President & CEO Amin H. Nasser attended the Saudi...
Russian-Indian economic cooperation may be best known for major military hardware deals, but the future lies in the exchange of hi-tech innovations, speakers resolved at the India-Russia Startup Summit held at the Skolkovo Technopark on Tuesday. Skolkovo...
Fyodor Konyukhov is 67 years old. By the time he turns 70, he plans to have piloted a solar-powered plane around the world – without stopping. The flying laboratory landed inside the Skolkovo innovation city for the Open Innovations forum. Photo...
Apis Cor, the parent company of Skolkovo resident Apis-Cor Engineering , has won fourth place in a NASA competition to design a 3D-printed habitat that could be built on Mars. SEArch+/Apis Cor's design provides maximum radiation protection from galactic...
Energy, space, ICT and smart city technologies are all areas in which Egypt could join forces with the Skolkovo Foundation, Egyptian Ambassador to Russia Ihab Nasr said during a visit to the Skolkovo innovation city on Monday. Egyptian Ambassador Ihab...
The U.S. may be streets ahead in the development of driverless cars, but there is one area where Russia could still overtake, Russian technology experts believe. Their secret weapon? That tried-and-tested historical ally, General Winter. For it’s one...
Samocat Sharing , a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s energy-efficient technologies cluster, is expanding its kick scooter sharing scheme to the Finnish city of Espoo. Sergei Pisarenko, cofounder of Samocat Sharing, rides a scooter around...
Traditionally, Russian business in Latin America may have revolved around two products – importing bananas and flowers – but as the governments of Mexico and Ecuador open up their lucrative oil and gas industries to foreign companies, Russia’s...
Skolkovo resident startup GeoSteering Technologies , the maker of “smart drilling” software for use at oil and gas production facilities, signed an agreement with the government of the Tyumen region at the Sochi 2017 Russian Investment Forum this...
Chinese investors are to spend $30 million on a plant in the country’s northeast that will use cutting-edge technology devised by Risilica, a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation, to turn by-products of rice farming into amorphous silica. An estimated...
Oil producer Gazprom Neft is to open a research and development centre at the Skolkovo innovation centre outside Moscow under an agreement signed Thursday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Skolkovo president Victor Vekselberg (left)...
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...
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...
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...