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Skoltech-led research team lands EU grant to forecast space weather
An international team of scientists led by a professor from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology has won a grant from the European Union to develop space weather forecasting systems. Skoltech...

Space startup wins $3.9M Skolkovo grant for Earth-observation satellite
The Skolkovo Foundation has awarded a 150 million ruble grant to its resident space startup Dauria Satellite Technology to develop an Earth-observation satellite. The company is a subsidiary of Skolkovo...

Indian delegation visits Skolkovo on fact-finding mission
A delegation of scientists, educators and ministry officials from India paid a visit Wednesday to the Skolkovo Foundation, on a fact-finding mission to study the opportunities available for Indian students...

Moscow oils its gears for Robonight
This weekend sees the second Robonight in Moscow, a celebration of machines through films, exhibitions and even a robodisco – where, perhaps, robots will do the robot. Robonight is an initiative...

Lin Industrial: A slingshot into space
Lin Industrial is a Russian startup business that believes sending satellites into space should be less epic blastoff and more paper airplane. Only recently entering the Skolkovo fold as a resident, the...

Russian startups need to address identity crisis – U.S. business accelerator
There’s an identity crisis in the world of Russian startups. Too many young entrepreneurs are failing to define themselves clearly enough for investors, threatening to put the brakes on the development...

Skolkovo launches ‘More than Moore’ contest to rethink computer hardware
Skolkovo is dangling $400,000 worth of prizes in front of the tech startups that can revolutionize computer hardware - and possibly take humanity beyond a simple doubling of processor power every two years...

Skolkovo resident DATADVANCE tows Airbus through structural testing on new A350
Airbus has flown through structural testing on the panels of its new A350 passenger jet thanks to sophisticated computer modeling software developed by a Skolkovo resident. The European plane-maker is...

St. Petersburg scientist: Tumors play a positive role in evolution
It’s 1975, and at a Soviet research institute in Leningrad, Andrei Kozlov is onto something. The biomedical scientist has just defended a PhD thesis, impenetrable to the uninitiated. Something about...