Russia’s national telecommunications operator Rostelecom and authorities in Belgorod region have signed an agreement to set up a regional innovation center, the company reports. The regional innovation center Aurora-Park is reportedly to be located in the South-Western district of Belgorod.
Construction of the long-planned industrial park in Krasnoyarsk is now scheduled to begin in 2012, according to Deputy Minister of the Economy and Regional Development Vladimir Osipenko. The project has already received private investment. The government expects that the park should be fully operational by 2015.
The construction of the first complex of the Skolkovo innovation center outside Moscow is scheduled to begin in 2012 and be completed in early 2014, news agency RIA Novosti reports citing a source in the Skolkovo Fund.
A business incubator has opened in IT-Park, the high-technology technopark in Kazan, in the Republic of Tatarstan, Interfax reports.
TomorrowVentures, a US investment fund founded in 2009 by Google chairman Eric Schmidt, announced earlier this week the formation of a strategic partnership with Digital October, a Moscow-based cooperative work space and events organizer. Court Coursey, Managing Partner at TomorrowVentures, agreed to speak with EWDN on the subject of their new partnership.
Digital October, a Moscow-based cooperative work space and events organizer created in 2010, and TomorrowVentures, a US investment fund founded in 2009 by Google chairman Eric Schmidt, announced yesterday the formation of a strategic partnership aimed, in particular, at selecting, financing and promoting Russian startups on international markets.
Formally announced after the meeting between Swedish and Russian prime ministers, Ericsson’s participation in Russia’s Skolkovo Innovation Center draws on the company’s 120 years of collaboration with Russia on ICT modernization. The strategic agreement will help drive innovation and development in the country’s science and technology sectors.
Attending the presentation of the first annual report of the Skolkovo Foundation in Moscow yesterday, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev called for more active efforts to encourage foreign partners to take part in Skolkovo, the state-sponsored innovation hub under construction near Moscow.
Skolkovo, the state-sponsored innovation hub under construction near Moscow, and Microsoft Russia established last week a “strategic partnership” for educational projects.
Skolkovo, the state-sponsored innovation hub under construction near Moscow, last week opened its American beachhead in Silicon Valley together with Rusnano, a state-owned corporation, and Russian Venture Company (RVC), the state-owned fund of funds dedicated to innovation.
Pskov expects to have its first business incubator for young entrepreneurs completed and launched this May, RIA Novosti reported, citing incubator director Dmitry Mikhailov.
Tomsk Control Systems and Radio Electronics University (TUSUR) has plans to commission by late 2011 – early 2012 at the latest the city’s new fully equipped $17.5 million technology business incubator, RIA Novosti reports.
