The Novosibirsk region of Siberia will create its own electronic cluster, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported earlier this month. The planned facility will include significant production capacity for the manufacture of next gen electrical current sources based on a combination of supercapacitors and classical lithium-ion or other storage battery technologies. The facility will also reportedly manufacture products …
Russia’s first large-scale production facility of microelectronics components made to the 45-nanometer and smaller design rule will be coming on-line outside Kaliningrad by the end of this fall, news agency RIA Novosti reported earlier this week. Located in the town of Gusev, GS Nanotech Center will require a reported $130 million in investment and is …
45nm chips outside Kaliningrad; rollout slated for late fall Read More
The first building for the innovation city (‘Innograd’) of Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion near Moscow, will be officially unveiled later this month, boasting an impressive number of innovative and environmentally friendly features. The word “hypercube” is often associated with Andrzej Sekuła’s movie thriller of the same name. In the film, characters are …
First Skolkovo building to be unveiled in late September Read More
Global Venture Alliance (GVA) and the Summa Group yesterday announced an agreement with leading California accelerator Plug and Play Tech Center to create Plug and Play affiliates across Russia and other former Soviet republics. Following the opening of the first Russian Plug and Play in Moscow last June, new accelerators will be created in Daghestan, …
GVA and Summa to launch Plug and Play accelerators across Russia and CIS Read More
Dismissing rumors that state financing for Skolkovo might be reduced, the Russian Ministry of Finances confirmed earlier this week that the federal government’s total funding for the project will remain unchanged at 85 billion rubles (approximately $2.7 billion) between 2010 and 2015. This confirmation suggests that the Skolkovo project, which consists of building a world-class …
At this year’s prestigious Venice Architecture Biennale, which opened Aug. 27, Russia will be represented exclusively by a team from Skolkovo, Russia’s world-class tech hub under completion and futuristic city-in-planning. Elena Shipilova of Russia Beyond the Headlines spoke to Grigory Revzin, member of Skolkovo’s architecture-planning council, about what Skolkovo hopes to achieve at the exhibition …
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IT-Park, the technopark launched in 2009 in Tartartan’s capital city of Kazan, has opened a new 23,000 sq. meter branch in Naberezhnye Chelny, the second largest city in this autonomous republic of the Russian Federation. Rustam Minnikhanov, the president of Tatarstan, and Nikolai Nikiforov, the Russian Minister of Telecommunications and Mass Media, attended the opening …
New technopark empowers Tatarstan startups “to conquer the world” Read More
On August 6th, the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skolkovo Tech), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) kicked off a four-week intensive workshop called the SkTech/MIT Innovation Workshop 2012. The workshop is teaching participants how to bridge the gap between scientific and technological prowess and creating innovative solutions with broad impact. During the first …
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Last week, “Zhigulyovskaya Dolina,” a technopark nearing completion in Russia’s Samara region, and China’s Tsinghua Science Park (TusPark) of Tsinghua University in Beijing signed a memorandum of cooperation. TusPark specializes in commercializing science and technology research.
Six projects have won the “Startup-Sabantuy!” contest organized by Kazan’s IT-Park and the venture fund Runa Capital. Two thousand participants from 13 cities of the Volga Federal District presented 130 projects in an “elevator pitch” format. Thirty selected projects then took part in the next stage – a five-day Startup Camp that included business training …
Tatarstan startup contest sees six winners; government grants issued Read More
The Sunnyvale, California headquartered Plug and Play Tech Center officially opened its Moscow branch last month in partnership with GVA, a venture investment company that aims to bridge California with emerging markets. After multiple official speeches and presentations, the grand opening event featured a startup battle, already quite a familiar format for the Russian tech …
The technopark of Sarov in the Nizhny Novgorod region plans to raise 1 billion rubles, or some $30 million, to finance investment projects which will be selected through an innovation contest, the RIA news agency reported earlier this week. The contest will cover 13 different technological fields, including IT, supercomputers, space systems, transportation, and electrophysical …
Sarov technopark to raise $30m in venture investment Read More
