Following President Vladimir Putin’s visit to New Delhi in December, 15 IT companies from Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, will travel to India next month, reports the Skolkovo Foundation. The companies will take part in IndiaSoft, a major industry conference and B2B networking event organized every year to bring …
Panasonic is set to open next year an R&D center in Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow. The agreement, signed in the presence of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Shigeo Suzuki, CEO of Panasonic Russia, commits the Japanese firm to deploying at least 30 workers from its Russian representative …
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On December 1, Ufa, the capital city of Bashkortostan in the Southern Urals, saw the opening of new business incubator Smart Park, the local media reported. The space was created by the young entrepreneurs of the capital for actively minded people that are promoting new ideas and developing long-term projects. Smart Park includes a co-working …
Rambler & Co, a major Russian tech media group, is seeking to move away from its present status as a media company towards Internet technologies. As reported by Russian daily Vedomosti, the company is creating two startup accelerators to achieve this goal. Speaking at an event hosted by the $200 million government-backed startup fund FRII …
Rambler & Co seeks startups in its shift to becoming an Internet tech firm Read More
Although the relations between the two powers have reached historic lows, US-Russian cooperation in scientific and technological fields is still alive. “The Russian government is not imposing any sanctions whatsoever against the USA in the field of scientific interaction,” Gazeta.ru reported earlier this month, citing Russian ambassador to the USA Sergey Kislyak.
Skolkovo is sending a record 53 resident companies to Helsinki for Slush 2014, tripling its presence at Europe’s biggest startup conference in comparison to previous years. Slush takes place on November 18-19 in the Finnish capital and brings together around 15,000 investors, company executives, fledgling entrepreneurs and world media.
Telum, the developer of the Ranberry family of mobile products in Russia, has developed technology that enables users to quickly deploy a 4G/LTE wireless broadband network for voice, video and data transmission. The project, called Ranberry B1000, incorporates products by Telum and by Intel. Telum is a resident of Skolkovo, the international tech hub under …
Fast-deployment LTE technology can connect Russia’s Arctic Read More
On the eve of Russia’s Open Innovations Forum and Exhibition, in a beautifully refurbished event space overlooking the Moskva River in what used to be the Red October candy factory, Dmitry Repin answers my question with another question: “If not here, then where?” he inquires. “There’s foreign media, there’s industry, there’s government—it’s all here.” Repin is …
In Russia, an attempt to build its own Silicon Valley on the Moskva River Read More
Thin Film Technology has received a grant of $1.9 million from Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow. The firm was founded in 2006, and has been working with the Skolkovo innovation center since 2011. It develops semiconductor sensors for measuring pressure, vibration levels and other physical parameters in unstable and aggressive environments. …
Semiconductor sensor developer receives $1.9 million grant from Skolkovo Read More
Yesterday Jelastic, a California-based startup with Russian origins, saw one of its innovative solutions picked from five Russian finalists in the SmartCamp contest staged by IBM, as reported by the Skolkovo Foundation. Jelastic received a three-month mentorship course from IBM and will participate in the qualifying continental final in London at the end of November. The solution distinguished by IBM, …
Cloud solution provider Jelastic wins Russian stage of IBM’s global SmartCamp contest Read More
On December 8th a two-week incubator for Russian startups begins in Cambridge, Massachusetts – part of the successful Startup Access program that has already hosted a number of these events. The program provides startups the opportunity to work with experienced mentors who assist teams in creating a professional business plan to develop a successful marketing strategy. There …
Dr. Alina Ilinova, an assistant professor and the tech transfer manager at Mining University in St. Petersburg, spent quality time earlier this year at the Maryland International Incubator (MI2, University of Maryland, College Park), studying the best international practices in the commercialization of university-originating technologies and the innovation ecosystems developed at UMD and other American …
