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Skolkovo resident gets grant to prepare a meal fit for a king (prawn)
A company working on creating food for prawns from algae has been awarded five million rubles ($82,000) by the Skolkovo Foundation, making it the first startup working in agriculture to receive a mini...
12.12.2016, Новости

Food giant Cherkizovo to open acceleration centre at Skolkovo Technopark
Skolkovo’s Technopark has signed an agreement with Cherkizovo Group, a major Russian meat producer, to establish an acceleration centre for Skolkovo resident startups working in the areas of biotech...
25.11.2016, Новости

Skolkovo signs agreement with Israel’s own “startup village”
The Skolkovo innovation centre has signed a cooperation agreement with the Israeli city of Yoqneam Illit, marking its first partnership with a fellow hi-tech city. Skolkovo's Igor Drozdov (left) and...
11.11.2016, Статьи

Vekselberg announces plans for VC funds, regional expansion of Skolkovo
The Skolkovo Foundation will set up three venture capital funds to provide additional sources of investment for startups, the foundation’s president Victor Vekselberg said Friday at the Open Innovations...
31.10.2016, Статьи

Skolkovo startup M&S Decisions presents platform at U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Quantitative modeling researchers from M&S Decisions, a Skolkovo member company, presented at a scientific seminar on innovative methods in drug development held on October 17, 2016 at the U.S. Food...
31.10.2016, Новости кластера Биомед

Russian agriculture to get boost with opening of 2 new R&D centres at Skolkovo
The Skolkovo Foundation’s biomed cluster, which includes an agrotech division, signed two agreements with agricultural companies on Thursday at the second day of the Open Innovations forum. Kirill...
27.10.2016, Статьи

Skolkovo startup presents prototype of groundbreaking express stroke test
Skolkovo startup DRD Biotech has produced a working prototype of an express test that can determine in just a few minutes whether a person has had – or is at near-term risk of having – the...
24.10.2016, Статьи

First-hand experience: former resident startupper appointed science director of biomed cluster
Elmira Safarova, the recently appointed science director of the Skolkovo Foundation’s biomed cluster, has a unique perspective in her new role: in her last job, she was head of a startup that had...
20.10.2016, Статьи

Russia, France celebrate 50 years of science cooperation with biotech conference at Skolkovo
The Biotech RusFrance 2016 conference kicked off Wednesday at the Skolkovo innovation centre with the aim of identifying new opportunities for cooperation in biotech. Alexis Michel, science and technology...
19.10.2016, Статьи

Russian startups take on global giants at world’s first Cybathlon
Russian teams took part in five of six disciplines at the Cybathlon in Zurich at the weekend, in the world’s first international competition for disabled people who use hi-tech devices to help them...
10.10.2016, Статьи

As in space, so on Earth: Skoltech’s Rupert Gerzer on aerospace medicine and creative freedom
Dr. Rupert Gerzer came to work at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) one year ago as an associate director of the research university’s Space Center, but as a qualified medical...
04.10.2016, Статьи

Skolkovo resident Motorica wins Made in Russia prize
The head of Skolkovo resident startup Motorica, which makes hi-tech prostheses, has been awarded the Made in Russia prize for science and technology organised by Snob magazine. Motorica director Ilya Chekh...
29.09.2016, Новости

Russian teams to demonstrate bionic limbs and power of the mind at Cybathlon
Sergei Semaikin sits motionless in his wheelchair, wearing a tight cap with wires poking out from the holes in it and leading to a small black box fixed to the cap at the base of his skull. On the computer...
28.09.2016, Статьи

Skolkovo sets up new cooperation model with Cuba’s BioCubaFarma company
The Skolkovo Foundation has signed a cooperation agreement with BioCubaFarma, Cuba’s biggest biotech company, continuing a series of agreements and mutual visits between the foundation and the island...
21.09.2016, Новости

Building of biotech technopark to bring Finnish expertise to Skolkovo
Finland’s BioCity Technopark is to build a biotech technopark at the Skolkovo innovation centre under an agreement signed Tuesday at the ongoing International Association of Science Parks and Areas...
21.09.2016, Новости