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‘A wonderful day to start a business’
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - Pekka Viljakainen is sick to the back teeth of hearing people blame the lack of startups on the financial crisis. A national Kazakh television network interviews Pekka Viljakainen...

Top Kazakh minister opens Startup Tour in Almaty
ALMATY - Kazakhstan’s Minister for Investment and Development Asset Issekeshev raised the curtain Thursday on the sixth leg of the Russian Startup Tour - and first to take place abroad – with...

Business angels brandish tridents at pitch session
Angel investors may earn their nickname in the noble quest to rescue cash-starved startups, but, as revealed in a recent meeting of the Skolkovo Business Angels Club, they can be positively fiendish in...

Skoltech president Ed Crawley: Creating another MIT would be a ‘waste of energy’
In building the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, it would be an “extraordinary waste of energy” to simply create another MIT, the president of the fledgling Russian innovations...

Russia’s leaders congratulate physicist Alferov on 85th birthday
The Kremlin and the White House have congratulated Zhores Alferov, a pioneering Soviet physicist and co-chair of Skolkovo’s Scientific Advisory Council, on his 85th birthday. Photo: sk.ru President...

The day the Russian Startup Tour ceases to be ‘Russian’
A key message that Skolkovo transmits its startups is the need to expand into new territories. Now it is leading by example: This week, Russia’s biggest innovations roadshow ventures abroad for the...

From the Urals with innovations: Four teams make Startup Village 2015
The fifth stage of the Russian Startup Tour culminated this week with four teams from Yekaterinburg winning an invitation to the Startup Village in Moscow. The finalists in Yekaterinburg. Photo: sk.ru...

MWC 2015
Наша компания приняла участие в выставке Mobile World Congress, которая проходила с 2 по 5 марта в Барселоне. Здесь мы представили широкий спектр наших решений, анонсировали новую технологию, позволяющую...

Skoltech sends students to Aalto University in search of cutting-edge electronics
Russian-Finnish collaborative research that scientists hope could usher in a new age of consumer electronics took a first tentative step this month, as Skoltech students traveled to Helsinki to study nanomaterials...