Earlier this week Yandex announced the opening of an R&D office in Berlin – the 16th office globally and the third office in Western Europe of the NASDAQ-listed Russian search giant. The airy office space in Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse has enough room for up to 130 people, Yandex stated. It will be progressively filled with 30-40 work …
In keeping with long standing Russian tradition, the government has produced a hugely ambitious 5-year plan aimed at doubling IT exports and growing the sector three times faster than the country’s overall GDP. The plan, published in the form of a ‘road-map’ for 2014-2018, was signed by Dmitry Medvedev at the end of 2013, and …
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In late December the Zelenograd microelectronics cluster, part of a major innovation and industrial center just outside Moscow, signed a memo of intent with a counterpart in Grenoble, France. The partners are pursuing a dual goal of upgrading sector-related education standards in the Russian region and intensifying interaction in industry-oriented R&D. The Moscow city administration …
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Schneider Electric, a Paris, France-based global expert in energy management, is opening its own R&D center in Skolkovo, the government-sponsored innovation hub still under construction just outside Moscow. The French company announced the planned center and received residency status in Skolkovo 18 months ago. Under the terms of a cooperation agreement inked between Schneider Electric …
Acronis, an international provider of data backup software and disaster recovery solutions, has opened a development center in Moscow, Acronis Labs, following a $10 million investment. Headed by Acronis co-founder Maxim Lyadvinsky, Acronis Labs Moscow will engage in market research and improving the efficiency of existing technologies, innovation and intellectual property protection. Acronis’ General Director …
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RSC Group, a leading four-year-old developer and integrator of high performance computing (HPC) solutions in the former Soviet Union, announced last week that it has set a new world record of computing density of 1 petaFLOPS per server rack – five times greater than the company’s prior record of 211 teraFLOPS per rack set earlier …
The need to restructure the Russian economy has led to a variety of public policy initiatives. Whatever the official vocabulary, “innovation” is a key aspect of these policies. Therefore, a comparison with a country such as France that has implemented a very pro-active innovation policy may provide some tools of analysis. In both countries but …
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Microsoft is setting up a new separate legal entity in Russia. What started out in May 2012 as a Russian R&D center with just 70 employees will now become the Microsoft Development Center Rus, a 200-strong company with the mandate to develop and market Microsoft Dynamics AX solutions across the entire European continent. According to …
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Scientists from St. Petersburg and Silicon Valley are collaborating to grow super-thin nanodiamond film that could be used in new generation electronics, the Vesti TV website reported. The research is being conducted on the premises of St. Petersburg State Electrical Engineering University (LETI), which presents itself as “the oldest electrotechnical university in Europe.” Based on …
Intersoft-Eurasia, a Russian developer of hardware and software solutions for mobile devices, has unveiled its plans to market a next-gen SIM card. Fully compatible with the standard SIM card slot, the new solution is designed to support numerous phone numbers from different mobile operators. The ultimate goal is to put an end to what the …
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Last week, at Moscow’s SOFTOOL-2013 IT project show, Saratov Chernyshevsky State University (SChSU), a major university in the Lower Volga area, presented what it claims is a “unique” radio frequency identification solution. This solution was developed by SGU-Kontakt, an education and R&D center spun off from SChSU, the SChSU press service announced. The project aims …
TapTap bracelets are a new Russian product that people are raising money for on KickStarter. The team of developers from Izhevsk has already raised more than $63,000 [as of Nov. 1] and has another $66,000 to go. TapTap bracelets transfer information from one bracelet to another, designed for couples who want to be reminded of the object …
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