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Skolkovo business school gives international acceleration to Russian startup entrepreneurs

October 1, 2012

As the Moscow startup ecosystem has grown ever more fertile and dynamic, the Skolkovo School of Management has launched Startup Academy, a two-month part-time program combining practical entrepreneurial education with an international acceleration program. Startup Academy is intended for entrepreneurs or corporate managers who feel they need more knowledge to launch or support their companies. …

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45nm chips outside Kaliningrad; rollout slated for late fall

September 28, 2012

Russia’s first large-scale production facility of microelectronics components made to the 45-nanometer and smaller design rule will be coming on-line outside Kaliningrad by the end of this fall, news agency RIA Novosti reported earlier this week. Located in the town of Gusev, GS Nanotech Center will require a reported $130 million in investment and is …

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First Skolkovo building to be unveiled in late September

September 18, 2012

The first building for the innovation city (‘Innograd’) of Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion near Moscow, will be officially unveiled later this month, boasting an impressive number of innovative and environmentally friendly features. The word “hypercube” is often associated with Andrzej Sekuła’s movie thriller of the same name. In the film, characters are …

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Anti-counterfeit technology developer from the Urals receives $1 million from Moscow investor

September 17, 2012

QRGL, a startup established in Russia’s third largest city Ekaterinburg in the Ural mountains, secured $1 million from Veles Capital, a Moscow asset management company, regional portal 66.ru reported last week. Veles Capital will receive a two-third stake in the company. Founded in April 2010 by Pavel Medvedev, QRGL has developed an anti-counterfeit technology that …

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iCarnegie to open IT training center in Tatarstan

September 11, 2012

iCarnegie, the technology arm of Carnegie Mellon University, announced plans to open an IT training center in what is now developing as Innopolis, an ‘innovation city’ outside of Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation. The international educational and training facility will reportedly have the capacity to train as many …

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GVA and Summa to launch Plug and Play accelerators across Russia and CIS

September 9, 2012

Global Venture Alliance (GVA) and the Summa Group yesterday announced an agreement with leading California accelerator Plug and Play Tech Center to create Plug and Play affiliates across Russia and other former Soviet republics. Following the opening of the first Russian Plug and Play in Moscow last June, new accelerators will be created in Daghestan, …

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Government confirms full financing for Skolkovo

August 30, 2012

Dismissing rumors that state financing for Skolkovo might be reduced, the Russian Ministry of Finances confirmed earlier this week that the federal government’s total funding for the project will remain unchanged at 85 billion rubles (approximately $2.7 billion) between 2010 and 2015. This confirmation suggests that the Skolkovo project, which consists of building a world-class …

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Skolkovo represents Russia at Venice Arts Exhibition

August 29, 2012

At this year’s prestigious Venice Architecture Biennale, which opened Aug. 27, Russia will be represented exclusively by a team from Skolkovo, Russia’s world-class tech hub under completion and futuristic city-in-planning. Elena Shipilova of Russia Beyond the Headlines spoke to Grigory Revzin, member of Skolkovo’s architecture-planning council, about what Skolkovo hopes to achieve at the exhibition …

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New technopark empowers Tatarstan startups “to conquer the world”

August 27, 2012

IT-Park, the technopark launched in 2009 in Tartartan’s capital city of Kazan, has opened a new 23,000 sq. meter branch in Naberezhnye Chelny, the second largest city in this autonomous republic of the Russian Federation. Rustam Minnikhanov, the president of Tatarstan, and Nikolai Nikiforov, the Russian Minister of Telecommunications and Mass Media, attended the opening …

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Skolkovo Tech’s innovation workshop underway at MIT

August 22, 2012

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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Cisco Networking Academy to help decrease unemployment in south of Russia

August 7, 2012

Moscow – Cisco has announced the launch of a Southern IT District project, part of a three-year program aimed at developing and modernizing IT education in Russia. The project is focused on promoting IT education in the Southern and North Caucasus Federal Districts (the last has the highest level of unemployment in Russia). Today 35 Cisco …

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Russian and Chinese technoparks strike cooperation agreement

July 31, 2012

Last week, “Zhigulyovskaya Dolina,” a technopark nearing completion in Russia’s Samara region, and China’s Tsinghua Science Park (TusPark) of Tsinghua University in Beijing signed a memorandum of cooperation. TusPark specializes in commercializing science and technology research.

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