In its seventh edition on May 29-30, Startup Village – the largest tech entrepreneurship event in Russia and neighboring countries – was held at the Skolkovo Innovation Center. More than 10,000 people from 85 countries of the world, including over a thousand from the local and international investment community, attended the event. The business program included …
Startup Village 2019: “Every investor has found its startup” Read More
Yesterday Hyundai Motor Russia & CIS announced a new partnership with Skolkovo, the innovation hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow. Under this partnership, a new startup, ‘Hyundai Mobility Lab,’ will develop IT solutions and new services to address the growing demand for mobility services. “A new trends is emerging in today’s Russian automobile market, …
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In its seventh edition, Startup Village, a key international event held in Skolkovo, aims to become a business connection platform not only between investors and startups, but also between Russian innovation suppliers and prominent global firms. Five topical discussions will help Skolkovo residents and international corporations to understand each other better. Russian technology suppliers will …
Startup Village 2019 to put together Russian startups major foreign firms Read More
As part of the Startup Village event on May 29-30, ‘Startup Bazaar’ will showcase cutting-edge Russian-made products, from prototypes to ready-for-market solutions. A variety of industries are concerned, from IT design, to biomedicine, to energy-saving, to industrial technologies and much more. The Startup Bazaar exhibitors include: Group-IB (Skolkovo resident), a Secure Bank/Secure Portal system that works proactively …
‘Startup Bazaar’ to feature 200 emerging technologies from Russia (Skolkovo, May 29-30) Read More
On April 11 Skolkovo, the international tech hub on the outskirts of Moscow, hosted the second edition of Corporate Innovations, an international conference focused on best practices in tech development and market launch strategies. The event was attended by more than 500 individuals and 150 companies, with more than 70 speakers delivering keynotes. According to …
On April 11 Skolkovo, the international tech hub on the outskirts of Moscow, will host the second edition of the Corporate Innovations conference. This year’s motto is “NextTech for business,” with an emphasis on digitalization tools that concretely help businesses address their challenges. Top managers of corporate giants – including Russian Railways, Rostec, AstraZeneca, Mail.ru Group, VTB …
In 2013 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – one of the world’s most prestigious, and wealthiest, universities – entered a $300 million collaboration to found the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, or Skoltech, outside the Russian capital. MIT elected Vekselberg to its board of trustees in 2013, a move that appeared to cement a …
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Russian-Indian economic cooperation may be best known for major military hardware deals, but the future lies in the exchange of hi-tech innovations, speakers resolved at the India-Russia Startup Summit held at the Skolkovo Technopark on Tuesday. Both Indian and Russian tech entrepreneurs attended the day-long event, together with representatives of business and development institutes in …
Indian and Russian players see “huge potential” in high-tech cooperation Read More
During the ASEAN-Russian summit held earlier this month in Singapore, Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Skolkovo Foundation and the Russian sovereign fund RDIF. A state-backed organization aiming to stimulate entrepreneurship and innovation in Singapore, ACE is thus becoming “a trusted partner for Skolkovo resident companies,” said Yury Saprykin, vice …
Earlier this month, as the Open Innovations forum gathered thousands of Russian and foreign participants on the outskirts of Moscow, the Skolkovo Foundation signed agreements with Chinese players. As reported by Skolkovo news portal Sk.ru, the Russian tech hub agreed with Chinese telecoms giant Huawei to set up a joint innovations center. The R&D effort …
Skolkovo develops R&D and venture projects with Chinese players Read More
Earlier this week, on the eve of the Eastern Economic Forum, the Skolkovo Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan’s IoT Acceleration Consortium. The agreement followed talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe in Russia’s Far Eastern port city of Vladivostok. The IoT Acceleration Consortium aims to foster the development of technologies related …
Skolkovo to cooperate with Japan in the fields of AI, Big Data and IoT Read More
On Oct. 15-17 the Skolkovo tech hub near Moscow will play host to Open Innovations, a huge annual tech forum backed by the Russian government and attracting virtually every player that counts on the Russian market. The forum aims to showcase and commercialize new technologies, and to create new opportunities and instruments for international cooperation in the …
