When, at the beginning of this year, the UNIM lab opened at Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, it offered cancer patients around the country the chance to get expert opinions on their tumours. The lab’s mission is to improve the accuracy of cancer diagnosis, and accordingly, its treatment. …
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From May 29 to June 1, thousands of tech entrepreneurs, inventors, scientists, corporates and investors from some 80 countries gathered in Startup Village, a annual giant two-day event. This open-air conference and exhibition took place in Skolkovo, the international tech hub nearing completion on the outskirts of Moscow. Skolkovo’s two-day open-air Startup Village is the biggest event …
After investing $17 million in Telegram’s ICO private presale this past winter, Sergey Solonin, a co-founder of payment operator Qiwi, has committed to invest 220 million rubles (roughly $3.5 million at the current exchange rate) in Skolkovo Digital, the IT fund managed by Skolkovo Ventures, Skolkovo announced on June 1. Skolkovo Digital primarily targets startups in the …
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Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, signed a memorandum of understanding with Bhaum Telecom Ventures Private Limited, a daughter structure of India’s Kanoria Foundation, at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) last week. The MoU, signed by Skolkovo Foundation’s chairman of the board Igor Drozdov and Bhaum Telecom …
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On May 31 – June 1, Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, will play host to the sixth edition of Startup Village. Presented as the largest startup conference in Russia and neighboring countries, the event expects to bring together some 20,000 participants from 80 countries. The conference will be a …
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In late April Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, welcomed a large delegation from the Belgian city of Antwerp. The delegation comprised about 100 representatives of Antwerp businesses, the city administration and the University of Antwerp, and was headed by Antwerp Mayor Bart De Wever. As a city that is …
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The Skolkovo Foundation, which manages the Skolkovo international tech hub on the outskirts of Moscow, signed a cooperation agreement on Wednesday with Luxinnovation, the national agency for innovation and research of Luxembourg. Skolkovo’s Yury Saprykin (left) and Luxinnovation’s Ian Cresswell sign the agreement in Moscow on Wednesday as the deputy prime ministers of Belgium, Russia …
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On February 9, Tinkoff Bank, the Russian digital lending giant, announced the launch of an R&D center at Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow. The new center will focus on Blockchain-based solutions and cryptoeconomics research in order to boost the Tinkoff’s financial ecosystem. “The ideas and prototypes developed at …
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In late January the Russian startup UNIM opened the country’s first digital cancer lab at Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow. UNIM uses Digital Pathology – the conversion of glass slides into digital slides – to allow patients to obtain a histological, immunohistochemical or molecular analysis of their tumour and consultation on …
Several resident startups of Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, took their products and technologies to Las Vegas last week for CES, one of the world’s biggest consumer technologies exhibitions and conferences, which ran from January 9 to 12. Promobot robots take a break with their creators after a busy …
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Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, took its cooperation with France to a new level last week, with the visit of ambassador Sylvie Bermann to the innovation city and the signing of a memorandum of understanding with two French business organisations. The visit took place on Wednesday last week, one …
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In a new paper published in the Nature magazine, a group of scientists led by Jacob Biamonte, an associate professor at Skolkovo Institute of Technology (Skoltech), analyzed what steps can be taken to make the most of quantum enhanced machine learning. This a major contributon to help us better understand quantum enhanced machine learning, writes Russia Beyond The Headlines. …
