The Skolkovo Technopark, one of the largest tech parks in Europe, achieved impressive results in 2014: A new building and an array of services were launched; it won the bid to host the IASP World Conference in 2016; and staged the Conference of Science and...
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Business trip to Malaysia: special offer for Skolkovo companies Submission period is over. Dear participating companies of Skolkovo, This April, Skolkovo Technopark became a member of the Asian Science Parks Association, which allows companies involved...
Dear participating companies of Skolkovo, There are the last several places for Skolkovo companies in the Startup Access field business incubator in Boston, USA, October 10-23. Submission period is over. Startup Access is a program created by serial entrepreneurs...
The concept of time in Russia has a different meaning and metrics than elsewhere, not only with respect to the famous Moscow traffic, but in all other human aspects of life as well. But one thing is for sure: Russia is taking its first steps towards a free...
Dr Anna Nikina has built her career in Finland and Europe and moved to Russia in the beginning of 2012 to work for Skolkovo as Head of Development, International Programmes, Technopark Skolkovo. Why did you move back to Russia and start to work in Skolkovo...
“I was in a seminar six or seven years ago, and by accident the microphone was given to me. I said that I fully buy into Russian modernisation, but I strongly disagree with the President about the order of importance. And when that ‘strongly disagree’...
Energy and raw material exports will go up. But where is the modern Russia? Russia is neither Moscow nor St. Petersburg. Russia is neither very safe nor very violent. You could say that Russians drink a lot of vodka, or that the young generation drinks...
On April 7-10, 2014 in Ecuador an international science park conference took place in Yachay Innovation Center. Latin American and international science parks and universities participated to the conference with the aims of knowledge exchange and attracting...
A group of Russian scientists who developed LiveMap , a huge motorcycle helmet with an Android-powered navigator in its visor, believe their invention will be the next big thing in bikers’ head gear. And they are not the only ones hoping for a return...
Chemistry professor Charles McKenna, Deputy Dean of Department of Natural Sciences of University of Southern California paid a visit to Skolkovo Technopark. During his visit professor McKenna saw the work done at Technopark, visited labs for microanalysis and...
In the frameworks of the year of cooperation between the Netherlands and Russia a meeting yesterday in Saint-Petersburg was held between the President of Russia Vladimir Putin and the Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte (this European country has the...
John Kao, known internationally as "Mr. Creativity," is world famous for his practical and pragmatic approach to "getting innovation done." He is also a first class musician. Using a piano to illustrate how jazz is a guiding metaphor for business, Kao often...
“The Pioneers Festival”, one of the key events in the field of European startups, now supported by the Skolkovo Foundation, is to take place On October 29 – 31, 2012 in Vienna, Austria. During this three-day event leading European startups...
On 11 December, a Finnish-Russian forum on international cooperation in technological entrepreneurship and innovation infrastructure was held at the leading Finnish University of Aalto , Helsinki, Finland. The forum was organised by the social sciences...
On 5–7 December, Skolkovo companies representing the biomedicine , IТ , energy efficiency clusters visited Berlin where they got acquainted with the innovation infrastructure. They visited the largest technopark Adlershof and the biomedical technopark...
Signing Cooperation Agreement in November 2012. On the photo: Dr. Anna Nikina, Head of Development, Technopark “Skolkovo”, and Kari Vähä, CEO, Yrityssalo . On 11 April Technopark “Skolkovo” held a practical session with...
The Skolkovo Technopark organized the first business visit to Finland for 20 startup companies, residents of Skolkovo. On November 18-20, representatives of these companies visited the city of Salo, Finland – the home city of Nokia. Salo is one of the...
The Technopark office building will be located in district D1. of the Skolkovo Innovation Center. DOCUMENTS: HERE The new office will be constructed from modern, eco-friendly, energy-efficient, and fast erected modular construction technology...
November 10, 2012, Providence, RI - Foresight Science and Technology Incorporated, a global consultancy with operations in metropolitan Boston and San Francisco plus Oxford England, Singapore, and Santiago, Chile signed a Memorandum of Understanding on November...
TEDxSkolkovoChange has been approved to host a livestream event of the TEDxChange 2013 conference on Wednesday, April 3, 2013. TEDxSkolkovoChange will stream Melinda Gates, Cathleen Kaveny, Halimatou Hima, Roger Thurow, Salim Shekh. In addition to the global...
On November 22, the Slush Forum was held in Helsinki, Finland, gathering in a cozy chamber the residents of Skolkovo Foundation, Finnish business angels, serial entrepreneurs and local startups. The leading co-organizers of this event were Veijo Hytti...
The Scientific and Technical Center of the JSC TATNEFT will be located in "Skolkovo" Research and Technology Park ( Technopark ). The ceremony of signing the Agreement on the establishment and location of the STC of TATNEFT in the Technical Center...
A month ago, a journalist of a reputable Finnish magazine turned to our editorial board, as she needed a lift in writing about young and successful Russian Finns. She asked us for help in finding protagonists of her future interviews. We handed her...
On 18–20 November, more than twenty companies participating in the Skolkovo project ( www.sk.ru ), the largest innovation project in Russia, were on their first business mission to Finland The business delegation visited Salo, one of the main...