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Hong Kong delegation visits Russia’s Skolkovo to cross-pollinate fintech startups

April 18, 2016

Earlier this week a delegation from Hong Kong visited Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, to exchange experience amid an ongoing cooperation program. As reported by the Skolkovo foundation, the delegation was led by Professor KC Chan, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury of Hong Kong, who outlined how the …

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Ethiopian delegation visits Skolkovo to boost science and tech ties with Russia

March 31, 2016

Last week a delegation of Ethiopian officials visited Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, as the African country seeks to boost its ties with Russia in the field of science and technology. The delegation, which also visited the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), was headed by Ethiopian Deputy Prime …

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Skolkovo celebrates 2015 achievements, aims to become “a true city”

March 23, 2016

This year will see Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, become a true city, Skolkovo’s president Viktor Vekselberg stated at a board meeting last week. The first residents of the hub, which had thus far remained more virtual than physical, are due to move in to brand new housing in the …

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Skoltech president Alexander Kuleshov: “Transferring the MIT model onto Russian soil may not have been the right thing to do”

March 18, 2016

Alexander Kuleshov, the new president of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), officially took over from the four-year-old research university’s founding president, U.S. professor Edward Crawley, last month. In an interview with Mikhail Baklanov, chief editor of Sk.ru, Kuleshov – an expert in IT and mathematical modelling who has served on Skoltech’s board …

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Russia, Israel eye cooperation in hi-tech agriculture

February 16, 2016

Russia and Israel look set to join forces to improve efficiency on Russian farms after Israel’s agriculture minister visited the Skolkovo Foundation last week, where it was agreed that a working group should be set up to facilitate joint research and development of agricultural technology. Uri Ariel, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Israel, …

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Skolkovo to launch its first research satellites in October

February 13, 2016

Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, is preparing to expand beyond planet Earth this autumn with its subsidiary, the Skolkovo Orbital Launch Centre (SOLC), set to send satellites into space. “Our first launches are planned for October this year,” said Alexei Belyakov, head of Skolkovo Foundation’s space and telecommunications technologies …

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TICKS not BRICS? Russia’s race to replace commodities with technology

February 8, 2016

In an article last week, the Financial Times wrote that the concept of the BRICS group of emerging economies was dead, arguing that Russia and Brazil’s dependence on commodities exports had led to them being usurped by tech-heavy economies Taiwan and South Korea, leading to the creation of the TICKS (Taiwan, India, China, [South] Korea and South …

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Skolkovo opens branch in Russia’s Far East

February 14, 2016

As announced earlier this year, Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, has opened a new branch in the Far East and selected its first batch of local startups. Skolkovo’s experts have granted the status of resident companies to seven early-stage companies, the Skolkovo Foundation reported, claiming to have received in …

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Agritech arrives in Skolkovo

November 12, 2020

Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, has begun accepting applications from startups in the agricultural business and expects its first resident companies by the end of the year. Agricultural startups will fall under the wing of the biotech cluster headed up by Skolkovo vice president Kirill Kaem, reports the …

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Autodesk to make computer-aided design software available to Skolkovo students and resident companies

February 16, 2016

Computer-aided design giant Autodesk has signed a cooperation agreement with Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, to potentially provide software support to resident startups and Skoltech students. The deal was struck earlier this month at the Skolkovo Technopark Office Center by Skolkovo vice president Alexandra Barshchevskaya and Herbert Bickelman, senior …

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Skolkovo teams up with Panasonic and KAMAZ in search for battery breakthrough

February 16, 2016

Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow,  is teaming up with two of its biggest industrial partners in Panasonic and truck-maker KAMAZ in a search for the next big breakthrough in battery technology. The three powerhouses of innovation this week launched a competition among Skolkovo residents – also open to …

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Cuba gets inspiration from Skolkovo to develop “analogous tech park project”

February 16, 2016

Exploring the possibility of building a Skolkovo-style tech park in Cuba, a government delegation from the island visited Moscow earlier this month, the Skolkovo Foundation reported. “The idea and aim of the trip here is to study this example (of the Russian tech hub) to create an analogous project in Cuba,” said Zarays Gutierrez, the head …

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