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The Russian Ambassador to the UK supports the technology transfer mission of the Skolkovo Foundation
Alexander Vladimirovich Yakovenko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, met the head of the Russian hi-tech mission to the UK Igor Bogachev, Vice President, Executive...

Our second project "Diazocompounds" got Skolkovo participant status
After approximately 6 months we have achieved the Skolkovo participant status for our second project based on diazo chemistry reactions - Ltd. Diazocompounds which aims developing of new anticancer protocols...

“Nature already invented a cure for HIV”: how human genome editing could change the world
As the world discusses the ethics of growing human organs in pigs, scientists gathered at the Skolkovo Foundation last week to discuss an equally divisive topic: that of human genome modification. Scientists...

Skolkovo resident VisionLabs joins forces with Facebook and Google to teach machines to see
VisionLabs, a facial recognition, data analysis and robotics company that is a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation, has created an open-source computer vision platform using funding from Facebook and Google...

Portable projector, HIV and TB treatments win prizes at Startup Village
Dozens of young tech entrepreneurs left the fourth annual Startup Village elated on Friday after winning cash prizes of up to 3 million rubles ($45,000) in a competition at the culmination of the two-day...

Boeing unveils innovative training and research centre at Skolkovo
The U.S. aviation giant Boeing opened a state-of-the-art training and research centre at the Skolkovo innovation city outside Moscow on June 3, during the annual Startup Village. The Boeing centre is already...

New partnership agreements agreed at Startup Village
Two partnership agreements were announced at the opening of the Startup Village at the Skolkovo innovation centre on Thursday: one with the Chinese company Kunshan Nano New Material, which makes glass...

Russia eyes prospect of Hyperloop vacuum train at Startup Village
Hyperloop One, one of the companies working to make Elon Musk’s high-speed vacuum train dream a reality, sees potential for working with Skolkovo startups on the ambitious project, the U.S. company’s...

Startup Village reveals Skolkovo to be as international as ever
Sanctions, food import bans and public sabre-rattling between Russia and the West seemed like nothing more than a bad dream at the opening of the Startup Village, an international event for tech entrepreneurs...