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These Women Are Making Waves in Tech's Emerging Markets
A recent Startup Village event in Moscow organized by the Skolkovo Foundation celebrated and showcased Russian innovation, positioning Moscow as an emerging tech hub. The event rolled into Moscow after...

Korean tech businesses in Skolkovo Technopark
Today, June 3, 2013, at Skolkovo Technopark (TPS) was a fact-finding visit from the delegation of the technological entrepreneurship community of the Republic of Korea. The delegation of South Korean businessmen...

Skoltech Completed Its Second Enrollment of Students
In March 2013 Skoltech conducted its second enrollment of students. The competition had more than ten applicants for each position, and it was necessary to select 50 students from more than 550 applications...

The Brain in the Big City
Moscow Innovators Will Soon Challenge the Americans "Coteries" of young scientists and creative entrepreneurs have become just as fashionable a phenomenon in Moscow as the highbrow parties and...

Russia Hopes The Skolkovo Tech City Will Produce Its Great Leap Forward
During the height of the Cold War the Soviet Union built up a network of “Naukograd” or “Science Cities”. These were state-created clusters of scientists working on technologies...

Ken Davidyan: in Russia there is an excellent cultural basis for space commercial development
Development of innovative space business was discussed with prominent Russian and international experts at Startup Village at the session led by the space cluster executive director Sergey Zhukov. Ken...

Skoltech Selection Weekend
In March, 2013, Skoltech led two Selection Weekends, inviting 70 students from around the world. They traveled to Skolkovo, Russia for three packed days of engineering and design challenges, TOEFL exams...

Success Stories: May, 2013
Bravo Motors, the creator of the ultra-compact e-Trike electric vehicle, won at the Startup Village conference SPUTNIKS received a license from the Russian Federal Space Agency to carry out space activity...

Startup Navigation. How to find a lost dog quickly? And how not to get lost on the way to an unknown location?
Two promising navigation products – GPS Friend and WAYRAY – were presented at the “Global Navigation and Telecommunication Technologies” session conducted within the frameworks...