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Biomedicine projects steal the show at far eastern leg of Startup Tour
The winners of the far eastern stage of the Skolkovo Foundation’s Startup Tour have been announced in Vladivostok, with projects in the biomedicine category leading the way. About 120 projects were...

Skolkovo Foundation ups its fight against cancer on World Cancer Day
As nations across the globe marked World Cancer Day on February 4, the Skolkovo Foundation announced the creation of a new Cancer Centre of Excellence. The new centre is set to coordinate the work of all...

Skolkovo residents dominate ranking of top 50 Russian startups
Almost half of the top 50 Russian startups in 2015 selected by Russia Beyond the Headlines, a news agency publishing Russian news in foreign languages, are resident companies of the Skolkovo Foundation...

TICKS not BRICS? Russia’s race to replace commodities with technology
In an article last week, the Financial Times wrote that the concept of the BRICS group of emerging economies was dead, arguing that Russia and Brazil’s dependence on commodities exports had led to...

Air Liquide launches a scientific contest on “Essential Small Molecules”
Essential Small Molecules such as O2, N2, H2 and CO21 embody Air Liquide’s scientific territory. They have an extremely wide variety of physical and chemical properties which make them essential...

Startup Tour selects its first winners in Irkutsk
The winners of the first stage of the Startup Tour in the Siberian city of Irkutsk have been announced, as the nationwide search for promising tech startups prepares to move to the far eastern city of...

Seeking tomorrow’s agricultural solutions in Russia’s regions
This year’s Startup Tour that kicks off on February 1 will have a difference: as the Skolkovo Foundation launches its annual nationwide hunt for promising startups in all branches of science and...

Startup seeks to help kids around the world build their own robots
If children throughout the 20th century delightedly developed their engineering skills by playing with Meccano, a Russian startup hopes that 21st-century children will find its robotic constructor kits...

Skolkovo Gymnasium aims to inspire future inventors with visits by robots, astronautics experts
What child wouldn’t like to meet a robot, or a professor of astronautics? These were two of the recent visitors to the Skolkovo International Gymnasium, a private school attached to the Skolkovo...