• The rise of the Skolkovo Technopark
  • Sk.ru presents new photographs of the Skolkovo Technopark, the facility that will host the 2016 International Association of Science Parks World Conference. Photo: sk.ru The technopark is the central element...
  • 10.04.2015

  • Forging innovation in metallurgy with EcoSlag
  • In the first of a series of interviews, Sk.ru discovers what makes innovators tick in the less glamorous but no less critical field of metallurgy. Recycling steelmaking slag the EcoSlag way. Photo: Amir...
  • 10.04.2015

  • Catalyzing angel investment in Almaty
  • ALMATY, Kazakhstan - It’s springtime in downtown Almaty, though winter is blowing its last frigid gusts off the snowy peaks of the Zailiyskiy Alatau mountain range and around the city's skyscrapers...
  • 30.03.2015

  • A glimpse inside Kazakh innovation
  • ALMATY, Kazakhstan – Anar Akbarli typifies the new generation of innovators from Central Asia: Progressive, tenacious, and very, very smart. His is a generation tasked with providing a new string...
  • 26.03.2015

  • A forum of robots, a meeting of minds
  • The third Skolkovo Robotics International Conference was a runaway success, attracting a wide array of participants from all corners of the planet and, critically, encouraging the discipline to flourish...
  • 24.03.2015

  • 10 simple rules for international success
  • ALMATY, Kazakhstan – As part of the March 19-20 Startup Tour in Kazakhstan’s second city, Skolkovo’s startup guru Pekka Viljakainen gave a master-class on initiating a high-tech business...
  • 24.03.2015