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Medvedev orders government to roll out infrastructure for driverless transport
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has tasked his government with creating infrastructure for driverless transport in Russia, bringing the country a step closer to the appearance of autonomous vehicles...
09.08.2017, Новости

Scooter sharing scheme expands from Skolkovo to Finland
Samocat Sharing, a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation’s energy-efficient technologies cluster, is expanding its kick scooter sharing scheme to the Finnish city of Espoo. Sergei Pisarenko...
21.07.2017, Статьи

Skolkovo residents make up 1 /3 of RBC’s list of ‘Heroes of Tomorrow’
The founders and directors of Skolkovo resident startups make up nearly one-third of a list of “20 young and promising heroes of tomorrow” published by the RBC news agency’s magazine...
26.05.2017, Новости

Head of Russian oil refining startup named one of world's 5 most promising engineers
The founder and director of Skolkovo resident startup RRT Global, a developer of oil refining technology, has been included in a list of the world’s top five most promising engineers by Hydrocarbon...
19.05.2017, Новости

South Korean startups parachute in to Skolkovo for soft landing
The Skolkovo innovation city could soon be welcoming its first resident startups from South Korea, if applications from four companies currently taking part in a soft landing programme here are successful...
23.03.2017, Статьи

The biggest energy challenges facing humanity
Janusz Bialek and Ksenia Letova of the Skoltech Center for Energy Systems are quoted in this BBC article on the future of energy. Every day, our species chews its way through more than a million terajoules...
20.03.2017, Пресса о нас

Portable 3D printer builds a tiny house for a tiny price
Skolkovo resident Apis Cor, which recently printed a house in Russia for just $10,000, has been featured on the New Atlas tech website. The house was built using a 3D printer in just 24 hours, amid the...
07.03.2017, Пресса о нас

Panasonic to launch pilot hi-tech agricultural project at Skolkovo
Japan’s Panasonic Corporation may be primarily associated in the public mind with consumer electronics, but in some parts of the world, it is selling a very different kind of product: vegetables...
13.02.2017, Статьи

Skolkovo startup wows Chelyabinsk region officials with technology for transforming pipelines
A Skolkovo resident startup has impressed the government of Russia’s Chelyabinsk region with its technology for the maintenance of water and heating pipes without having to dig trenches and replace...
03.08.2017, Новости

New Skoltech lab revolutionizes approach to difficult oil deposits
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) unveiled its Center for Hydrocarbon Recovery’s new state-of-the-art laboratory on June 6 during the annual Startup Village, when Deputy...
06.06.2017, Статьи

Watts is a huge battery that powers your home
Watts, a resident company of the Skolkovo Foundation's energy cluster that makes modular energy storage and management systems, was featured in TechCrunch this week after exhibiting at TechCrunch Disrupt...
19.05.2017, Пресса о нас

Russian energy startups set sights on Latin America
Traditionally, Russian business in Latin America may have revolved around two products – importing bananas and flowers – but as the governments of Mexico and Ecuador open up their lucrative...
24.04.2017, Новости

Fashion of the future: Skolkovo startups present innovations at Russian fashion week
Amid the hazardous hairstyles and improbable outfits on display at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia last week, it was hard to stand out. But in one of the cavernous rooms of Moscow’s Manezh...
21.03.2017, Статьи

3D printer for building houses, fintech app win prizes at Startup of the Year awards
Skolkovo startups won two out of four categories at the Startup of the Year awards at Moscow’s Digital October centre on Wednesday. Koshelek (CardsMobile), an app that allows users to compile all...
15.03.2017, Новости

Skolkovo startup, Skoltech sign deals at Russian Investment Forum
Skolkovo resident startup GeoSteering Technologies, the maker of “smart drilling” software for use at oil and gas production facilities, signed an agreement with the government of the Tyumen...
01.03.2017, Новости