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Winners of Startup Tour competition announced in Perm
PERM — A medical training simulator, high-temperature 3D printer and automated geological prospecting system won their respective inventors tickets to Skolkovo’s Startup Village at the final...

Open Innovations Startup Tour kicks off in Perm
PERM — The Open Innovations Startup Tour 2018 began its journey across Russia to promote tech entrepreneurship on Tuesday, holding its first event of the year in the Urals city of Perm. Maxim Reshetnikov...

Startup Tour seeks to boost new wave of female tech entrepreneurs
The annual Open Innovations Startup Tour, the Skolkovo Foundation’s journey across Russia to support tech entrepreneurship in the regions, kicks off Tuesday in the Urals city of Perm. This year,...

Protecting intellectual property in an open source world
How can traditional intellectual property protection institutions such as patents continue to function in a world where new technologies are developed and go out-of-date in the space of a few months, if...

Revolutionary cancer diagnosis lab opens at Skolkovo
A new lab opened at the Skolkovo Technopark on Wednesday that looks set to drastically improve the diagnosis of cancer patients across Russia. Russia’s first digital lab was opened by UNIM, a resident...

Skoltech-led team sheds light on the mysteries of Saturn’s rings
A Skoltech-led team of international scientists has developed a mathematical model that makes sense of one of the great mysteries that have long perplexed researchers of Saturn’s rings, and published...

Skolkovo events in running for awards
Skolkovo’s Startup Village and the plenary session of the Open Innovations forum have made it through to the final of the Best Experience Marketing Awards. Both Skolkovo events are nominated in the...

Electronic label maker raises $3.5 million in investment
Compo, a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation, has raised 200 million rubles ($3.5 million) in investment from VEB Innovations, a tech investment fund set up by Vnesheconombank. The startup, a resident...

Skoltech opens itself up for scrutiny as the ultimate CDIO-inspired university
How does a country produce new generations of engineers equipped with the skills that are in demand in the real world once they graduate from university? Nearly two decades ago, a group of engineering...