Skolkovo is sending a record 53 resident companies to Helsinki for Slush 2014, tripling its presence at Europe’s biggest startup conference in comparison to previous years. Slush takes place on November 18-19 in the Finnish capital and brings together around 15,000 investors, company executives, fledgling entrepreneurs and world media.
A delegation of scientists, educators and ministry officials from India paid a visit Wednesday to the Skolkovo Foundation, on a fact-finding mission to study the opportunities available for Indian students and startups in Russia. Led by Inder Jit Singh of India’s Ministry of Science and Technology, the 30-strong delegation visited the foundation’s headquarters in downtown …
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Skolkovo is dangling $400,000 worth of prizes in front of the tech startups that can revolutionize computer hardware – and possibly take humanity beyond a simple doubling of processor power every two years. Moore’s law states that computer capacity increases twofold roughly every 24 months, a loop we’ve been stuck in for half a century.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has told business daily Vedomosti that public and private financing is in place “in its entirety” to see the Skolkovo project through. Speaking to the newspaper on its 15th anniversary, Medvedev noted that although the country had changed since he set up Skolkovo as president in 2010, “everything is going according …
The Skolkovo Foundation will bring 8 startups to participate in a road show in Hong Kong and Mainland China. All the companies will show their innovative developments during the International ICT Expo, which will take place on 13-16 April 2014 at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The management team of Skolkovo and the startups …
On August 6th, the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skolkovo Tech), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) kicked off a four-week intensive workshop called the SkTech/MIT Innovation Workshop 2012. The workshop is teaching participants how to bridge the gap between scientific and technological prowess and creating innovative solutions with broad impact. During the first …
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Formally announced after the meeting between Swedish and Russian prime ministers, Ericsson’s participation in Russia’s Skolkovo Innovation Center draws on the company’s 120 years of collaboration with Russia on ICT modernization. The strategic agreement will help drive innovation and development in the country’s science and technology sectors.
Cisco and the Skolkovo Foundation today unveiled further details of joint efforts under the Skolkovo Project plans to develop a “Virtual Skolkovo”. Based on the proposal from the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), Virtual Skolkovo will be a business innovation ecosystem that pushes the advantages of traditional clustering beyond physical boundaries into the virtual …
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