The Skolkovo Foundation is out in force at this year’s MAKS air show, one of the aviation industry’s biggest events with companies from 30 countries around the world taking part. Twelve of the 584 Russian enterprises exhibiting their products...
Skolkovo resident SEMAT has secured 50 million rubles in investment from Russian-Czech company MTE Group to research electrical discharge machining, a deal signed at Startup Village. Karavaev and Volkov, in light suits, during the signing. Photo: sk.ru...
Home security firm Graviton has destroyed the field to win the 2015 Startup Village pitch competition, impressing the judges with its sensor-based system to win the 3 million ruble prize and an invitation to become a Skolkovo resident. Graviton's...
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...
The Skolkovo Foundation has teamed up with China’s Cybernaut Investment Group to create a $200 million venture fund to stimulate high-tech innovations of mutual interest. Skolkovo's senior VP for innovations Vasily Belov and Russian Deputy Prime...
Seventeen innovations received recognition at the Minsk stage of the Startup Tour this week, with four projects winning a place in the pitch sessions at Startup Village in Moscow this summer. The winners of the Belarus pitch sessions. Photo: sk.ru ...
The Skolkovo Foundation will have a significant presence at the world’s largest trade show in Hanover, Germany, on 13-17 April 2015. The aim of Hannover Messe is to bring together large companies, startups, investors and engineers of industrial automation...
Skolkovo nuclear cluster resident Optogard Nanotech has completed a six-day trip to China that saw the firm sign a contract to supply the country’s largest pipeline manufacturer, Shandong Trustpipe Industry, with cutting-edge laser technology that toughens...
The Skolkovo Foundation began accepting applications Monday for the pitch sessions at Startup Village, Eastern Europe’s biggest innovations conference, at the Innovation Center on June 2-3. Last year's Startup Village attracted around 10,000...
Leading nuclear cluster resident Optogard Nanotech has received an 80 million ruble grant from the Skolkovo Foundation to build a laser-plasma facility at the innovations center. Optogard's laser-plasma technology at work. Photo: Optogard Nanotech...
The Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom is opening up a dedicated research and development center at Skolkovo. The facility, known as NucLab, is to be based at the Skolkovo Innovation Center just outside Moscow and will begin operations next year,...
Optogard Nanotech, a resident of the Skolkovo innovation ecosystem, has finished runner-up in a prestigious competition that encourages growth in the field of photonics. Photonics is the study of how light is generated and transmitted, dealing with lasers...
JSC Intersoft Eurasia , the manufacturer of the DO-RA mobile dosimeter/radiometer obtained its first US patent for a DO-RA dosimeter/radiometer device with display and measurement of ionization radiation for smartphones and computers. The International...
ExoAtlet, a project that combines an important social function with advanced IT and robotics solutions, has been named the winner in the competition held within the Startup Village mega conference of startups. On June 3, 2014 the results of one of the...
For the second time Varian Start-Up Challenge Contest starts for Russian high-tech startup projects and innovative teams, focused on the development of efficient technological solutions in the field of radiation therapy and other cancer treatment methods. ...
Skolkovo welcomes a new partner - Bozlu Holding, which brings together a number of companies operating in the markets of Europe, Asia and Africa in the field of healthcare - diagnosis, radiotherapy, production of radiopharmaceuticals to detect and treat cancer...
On September 10, 2013 Grant Committee of the Nuclear Technologies Cluster of Skolkovo Foundation approved the grant of 5 mln. RUR to the resident of Skolkovo - VCSELcom LLC for the implementation of the project «Long Wavelength Quantum Dot Vertical-Cavity...
Before joining Skolkovo Igor Karavayev worked as Strategy and Investment Director at State Atomic Energy Corporation “Rosatom”. Stepping into his new role he stated that he would be glad to work “in a team uniting the best experts and managers”...
Saint Petersburg International Innovation Forum is not only a key event in the business life of the Northern Capital but also a large event on a federal level. Here you can meet professionals who with joint efforts define perspectives and priorities...
One year after Japan’s Fukushima disaster heightened the controversy over nuclear power, Russia’s leadership remains committed to the peaceful use of the atom. RBTH caught up with Denis Kovalevich, head of the nuclear technologies cluster at the...
To date the radiation technologies and solutions are in a high demand around the globe. Over 20% of the top 100 world's leading corporations are using them in manufacturing and technological areas. Among them are medicine for diagnosis and treatment...
Opening of an R&D laboratory for Siemens in the Skolkovo Innovation Center will in the long run allow creating engineering spin-offs, additional possibilities for Skolkovo resident startups. During the opening of the first laboratory of the “Scientific...
The Skolkovo Foundation took part in the 10th jubilee Global Energy Prize Summit, which brought together laureates of this prestigious to discuss perspectives and challenges of the 21 XXI century global energy Since the Global Energy prize with the annual prize...
Alexander Fertman, director of science of the Nuclear technologies cluster talks about main events of 2012, which have opened very interesting and truly unlimited perspectives for development. The Sk.ru correspondent met Alexander to hear about most important...
On May 21, 2013 public company “Intersoft Eurasia”, a Skolkovo resident in the nuclear technologies cluster, received patents for the original model and design of a portable dosimeter-radiometer DO-RA Ultra-Blue-GM, which, in contrast to its previous...