Parallels Research, an international research center owned by Parallels, announced last week it has received a 150 million ruble grant ($5.3 million) from the Skolkovo Foundation for cloud computing research and development. The research center will get another 150 million rubles from its parent company Parallels.
Presented as the brainchild of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) has appeared on the scene as a major element in Russia’s state sponsored innovation policy. Though making its fist public debut only three weeks ago, the project appears to have been duly prepared, as witnessed by the agency’s brand new …
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The Skolkovo project, in partnership with Cisco, handed out 5.25 million rubles ($175,000) to three winners of their jointly sponsored Skolkovo Innovation Prize competition. Moscow inventor Evgeny Smetanin, 50, walked away with first prize of 3 million rubles ($100,000) for his project on transforming children’s toys into modular robotic playing devices.
The construction of the first complex of the Skolkovo innovation center outside Moscow is scheduled to begin in 2012 and be completed in early 2014, news agency RIA Novosti reports citing a source in the Skolkovo Fund.
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.
Attending the presentation of the first annual report of the Skolkovo Foundation in Moscow yesterday, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev called for more active efforts to encourage foreign partners to take part in Skolkovo, the state-sponsored innovation hub under construction near Moscow.
Skolkovo, the state-sponsored innovation hub under construction near Moscow, last week opened its American beachhead in Silicon Valley together with Rusnano, a state-owned corporation, and Russian Venture Company (RVC), the state-owned fund of funds dedicated to innovation.
Skolkovo, the state-sponsored innovation hub under construction near Moscow, has selected 28 projects to fund, according to its vice president, Stanislav Naumov, on March 4. He said that by the end of the year, that number will have risen to 116. Important tax and customs exemptions will also be offered.
In a meeting with Russian bloggers yesterday, Viktor Vekselberg, president of the Skolkovo Foundation, pledged to “lynch bribers” on the future innovation hub’s territory should any instance of corruption be discovered, reported Vedomosti, a Russian business daily.
Viktor Vekselberg, president of the Skolkovo Foundation, annouced yesterday to Russian president Dmitry Medvedev that the first office building of Skolkovo, the state-sponsored innovation hub under construction near Moscow, would be completed before the end of the year. The project’s administrative center will move to the Skolkovo territory in November, Vekselberg said.
The Skolkovo Innovation Prize contest received 2,318 submissions from a total of 10,681 participants. The contest, conducted in partnership with Cisco, is designed to attract talented inventors to Skolkovo, the state-sponsored innovation hub under construction near Moscow.
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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