Scientists at the Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radio Electronics (TUSUR) in Siberia are working on a new technology that would enable 3D prototyping of ceramics, the Association of the Innovation Regions of Russia reported last week. The technology is an alternative to conventional laser-based 3D prototyping, the source underscored.
A cloud app is being developed at Tomsk State University in Siberia to help the visually impaired visit web pages and get the information they need, the TSU press service announced last month. The application, called “RIW – Internet without restrictions,” is the brainchild of Evgeny Sidnev, Artyom Pomiluiko and Stanislav Rychagov, second-year students in TSU’s …
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Rusnano, Russia’s nanotech giant, Tomsk-based Micran, a major electronics manufacturer, and Finland’s Nokia Solutions and Networks (NSN) are shutting down Wireless Technology Center (WTC), their joint LTE base station facility in Tomsk. Russian media have offered the lack of legal endorsement by national regulators as an explanation for the move. A year ago WTC equipment …
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The Russian venture fever hit the Tomsk region in Siberia last week with the announced launch of a regional seed-stage fund. The new fund is expected to focus on the support of technology developments across the region’s innovation production clusters and in local academia. The fund will operate as an Open Investment Society (in Russian: …
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This Monday, a group of select innovation experts and mentors is starting a six-week-long road show through 15 Russian cities – from Rostov-upon-Don, to Astrakhan, to Tomsk, to Vladivostok in the Far East – aiming to meet thousands of local startup entrepreneurs, innovators, and representatives of technoparks. In each city, the program consists of presentations, …
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Russia’s first ever charity social network launched earlier this month to enable handicapped children in Siberia’s Tomsk region to publish blogs and charities across the world to donate online for the kids’ treatment, the five-year-old regional Ordinary Miracle charity fund for children announced. Elena Makarova, the fund’s president, said at a press conference at RIA …
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The Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in Siberia announced last week that a team of students and postgraduates designated WAFT (for We Are From TPU) has developed a project enabling drug-free memory regeneration. The Total Recall project offers a software-enabled system that helps people with amnesia regain their memory by analyzing the movement pattern of their …
According to Russian law, the LTE equipment developed and manufactured jointly by Nokia Siemens Network and Micran in Tomsk, Siberia, is not considered “Russian-made.” This legal definition has prevented Vainakh Telecom, a telecom operator in the Republic of Chechnya, in Russia’s Northern Caucasus area, from launching its new 4G network because the network has been built using …
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Since the beginning of 2013, the Microsoft Seed Fund has provided a total of $110,000 in grants to two startups from Russia’s regions. A $50,000 grant went to RealSpeaker, a startup from Kazan, Tatarstan, which offers a new approach to speech recognition. The company also recently received financing from Startobaza, a local seed-stage investment company, along with …
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Russia’s National Association for Innovation and IT Development (NAIRIT) has put together a Regional Innovation Ranking for 2011. The study was aimed at highlighting the Russian regions showing the most initiative in promoting applied science and innovation. According to NAIRIT, for the second year running Moscow ranked as the undisputed number one in 2011 among …
One of Russia’s leading business monitors, RBC daily, pooled efforts earlier this month with the St. Petersburg Politics Foundation and the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy in putting together a ranking of Russia’s regional innovation activity for the first two months of this year. The four leaders in this ranking are the Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk …
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A live glasses free 3D conference between London and Tomsk, Siberia, was conducted yesterday, combining several British and Russian innovative technologies. The guests of the 3D Storytelling conference, a broadcast and gaming industry event held in London, could see and talk to selected participants in Russia, thousands of miles away in 3D without glasses, “as if …
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