The Skolkovo Foundation, which has been instrumental in pumping R&D funds into the Skolkovo innovation hub just outside Moscow since 2010, has contracted with an international consortium to create a comprehensive ‘smart city’ concept. Under the terms of the 89.7 million ruble ($3 million) deal, the Russian software developer Cognitive Technologies, Britain’s Ernst&Young, the U.S.’ …
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Russia’s second fastest-growing regional innovation economy in 2011 according to business monitor RBC Daily, is stepping up efforts to assert itself as one of the country’s most business-friendly ecosystems. Less than three years after the regional capital city of Kazan opened IT Park, reportedly eastern Europe’s biggest techno-park, plans are now being laid for a …
In a bid to step up innovation cooperation between Russia and neighboring Belarus, two government delegations met in Nizhny Novgorod on Wednesday to agree on the establishment of a Russian-Belarusian Business Accelerator and to further the finalization of a prospective inter-state technopark.
Vist Group, a major, twenty-year-old Russian developer of turn-key IT solutions for mine fleet and railroad management systems, is considering seeking capital market opportunities, according to Reuters. A resident of Skolkovo, the government-sponsored technology hub outside Moscow, Vist could thus become the first Skolkovo resident to orchestrate an IPO. Vist has declined to make any …
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The potential of Skolkovo, the state-sponsored innovation hub nearing completion outside of Moscow, as a research and development base for marketable high tech products has been illustrated, for one of the first times, by the first international sales of a cloud computing solution developed with the support of Skolkovo’s IT cluster.
In a renewed round of innovation cooperation in the post-Soviet area, the Skolkovo Foundation, the Russian organization in charge of building a world-class technology hub near Moscow, is expected to start screening and funding technology start-ups from the neighboring CIS countries. The CIS Economic Council will vest the Foundation next month with full powers to …
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Skolkovo, the state-supported innovation hub under completion near Moscow, comes to the UK on Feb. 14 and 15. Organized by UK Trade & Investment and the UK Science and Innovation Network, the roadshow will provide “100 UK companies and organisations with an opportunity to discuss Russia’s ambitious future plans and funding opportunities for joint projects with …
Skolkovo, the innovation hub under construction near Moscow, has set a goal of partnering with 50 additional Russia and foreign venture funds this year, said Skolkovo Investment Director Alexander Lupachev in an exchange last Friday with news agency RIA Novosti.
The IT cluster of Skolkovo, the state-supported innovation hub under completion near Moscow, is preparing a roadshow to France in June or July, involving a dozen of its resident companies. The series of Skolkovo roadshows in Western countries started in the fall of last year with visits to Vienna, Munich and the Silicon Valley.
Fourteen residents of the business incubator of Ingria, a major technopark in St. Peterburg, attracted a total of 378 million rubles, or approximately $12 million, in investments during 2011. The sum amounted to 3.7 times as much as the previous year’s total.
Skolkovo, the state-supported innovation hub under completion near Moscow, announced yesterday it has offered a grant of 1.35 million rubles, approximately $45,000, to its resident Intersoft Eurasia, a startup developing a dosimeter-radiometer that can be built into a smartphone or used as a separate, detachable unit (see video).
The authorities of the Novosibirsk region in Siberia announced their intention to create a world-class innovation center in Akademgorodok, a major academic and scientific hub. The regional government will invest 10 billion rubles, or approximately $330 million, in the project by 2017, and expects the total investment from various sources to reach as much as …
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