The Magnit Tech Accelerator (MGNTech) final kicked off today, coinciding with the opening of Magnit’s digital office at Skolkovo, which will be home to one hundred of the retailer’s IT specialists. The focus of the accelerator is to challenge Skolkovo...
Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation Arkady Dvorkovich participated as a distinguished speaker during a panel session titled “The Policy Makers’ Challenge: Navigating Through a Recession”. The session was part of the #GMIS 2020 virtual summit...
The Skolkovo Foundation resident company VisionLabs has for the third time in a row confirmed its reputation as one of the global leaders in the field of computer vision and machine learning. This is based on the results of the independent testing of facial...
ExoAtlet , a Skolkovo resident company from the biomedical technologies cluster, recently gained CE certification allowing the company to export its rehabilitative exoskeleton technology to all EU countries as well as some non-EU states. This is a major leap...
On August 12, a press conference covering the launch of the Skolkovo Foundation’s first environmental program, GreenTech Startup Booster, took place. The project was organized with the support of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the...
Fourteen foreign companies taking part in the Skolkovo Softlanding program recently passed the expertise assessment stage and are now applying for residency. The Skolkovo Softlanding Program is aimed at making entry into the Russian market easier for...
The Energy Transition Initiative is a new program being considered by the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), the educational arm of the Skolkovo ecosystem. The Skoltech Center for Hydrocarbon Recovery is creating the program with the aim...
The Skolkovo Softlanding program, an annual event aimed at helping foreign companies seeking entry into the Russian market, began its first ever session in online format. The program links up foreign companies seeking entry into the Russian market with development...
Sensor-Tech , a Skolkovo Foundation resident and up and coming company, has two unique devices that are designed to assist the deaf and blind in tackling the daily issues associated with the disabilities. These are called “Robin” and “Charly...
3D Bioprinting Solutions , a Skolkovo resident belonging to the Skolkovo Foundation Biomedical Cluster, recently agreed to collaborate with KFC in developing an innovative technology aimed at making chicken using a 3D bio-printer. The two sides came up...
“Skolkovo is one of the innovation centers, but let’s speak honestly: it is now the leading innovation center and probably, in terms of competency and capabilities, the most powerful center in the country.” This assessment was made during...
The company, Enrollme.ru , a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation Biomedical Technologies Cluster, is providing its own digital platform to conduct observational research on patients with diseases of the hemic system and the new coronavirus infection Covid-19...
The company, Rapid Bio , is a resident of the biomedical technologies cluster of the Skolkovo Foundation and recently received a product license from the Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare (Roszdravnadzor) for its instant blood test designed to...
One of the main reasons behind the creation of the Skolkovo Foundation was to revitalize Russian domestic innovation in multiple industrial and technological areas, including robotics. Now, ten years later, ROBBO, a startup and Skolkovo resident that specializes...
Few Russian startups experience the emotions that the winner of the Startup Village competition feels, and there have only been two and a half dozen of these over the eight years of the conference’s existence. However, a two-time victory in the startup...
“I think that winning the competition is something to remember for a long time. I will tell my daughters that when they were born I won a large international innovation competition.” So said Alexander Dremin, a radio-engineer and electronics...
The startup competition, a part of Startup Village Livestream’20, has ended with winners from four tracks: IT, BioTech, Industrial Tech, Energy Tech. The winners walked away with cash prizes from a prize pool valued at 24 million rubles For the first...
The highlight of day-1 at the Startup Village Livestream’20 conference was a visionary session devoted to a model of the world after the pandemic and to technologies that will be needed in our current world. The host of the session, the head of the...
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, humanity finds itself in a unique situation that it could not have imagined itself being in several months ago. “We are at the survival stage,” stated the deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation...
Exactly one week remains before the launch of Startup Village Livestream'20 , which the organizers call “one of the first virtual conferences in Russia and the major free technology event of the year”. In the year of the 10 th anniversary of...
The eighth successive Startup Village technology conference opened on the very same day as the ten year anniversary of the creation of the Skolkovo Foundation. “This is a very important and meaningful date for us and we are very happy that we are marking...
“Don’t waste your time waiting for COVID-19 to dry out; if you have an investment project - you can start it online”. That’s what Pekka Viljakainen says, a venture investor from Finland and an advisor to the Chairman of the Board of...
Nikolay Suetin, Vice-President on Science & Education at the Skolkovo Foundation, has explained what he believes to be the most relevant issues in science and technologies, responding to which is critical not only to further combat COVID-19 outbreak, but...
Robots for diagnostics and surface sanitation, a chat-bot integrated into the MOH’s online portal for providing public consulting support during the pandemic, contactless terminal for body temperature measurement, pass control management platform to be...
The movie Avatar evoked an imaginary world of lush bioluminescent jungles. Now the popular fascination for sustainably glowing foliage is being realized through advances in designer genetics. This week in Nature Biotechnology, scientists have announced...