• Patents Power competition winners awarded grants from Bayer
  • Three innovative biomed projects were selected as the winners of the Patents Power competition last week organised by the Skolkovo Foundation, the German pharma company Bayer and Rospatent, Russia’s federal intellectual property service. Finalists...
  • 06.11.2018, News

  • Bayer, Skolkovo launch competition for biotech startups
  • The Skolkovo Foundation has teamed up with the multinational pharmaceutical and life sciences company Bayer to launch a competition to help biotech startups advance their projects and secure their intellectual property rights. The competition, titled...
  • 19.09.2018, News

  • LegalTech event: robots are no match for lawyers – yet
  • For centuries, ambitious young people have gone into law believing they would never be in want of work: the world will always need lawyers, so the thinking went. In the 21st century, amid growing predictions that many human jobs will soon be outsourced...
  • 01.12.2017, News

  • Optogard Nanotech gets nearly $2M in investment
  • Optogard Nanotech, a resident startup of the Skolkovo Foundation, has raised 110 million rubles ($1.8 million) in financing from Garant, a group investing in industrial projects. Under the terms of the deal, the investors and company founders have become...
  • 08.08.2017, News

  • Business angels brandish tridents at pitch session
  • Angel investors may earn their nickname in the noble quest to rescue cash-starved startups, but, as revealed in a recent meeting of the Skolkovo Business Angels Club, they can be positively fiendish in forcing them to justify their salvation. The business...
  • 17.03.2015, News

  • Webinar: Intellectual Property in Russian Federation
  • Here you can find a video of Webinar in which experts of IP Center Skolkovo spoken about the following issues: -What types of IP exist and protected in Russia? -Are Russian IP laws effective and sufficient? -How to obtain patents in Russia? -What is meant...
  • 07.05.2013, IP Center

  • 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protection institutions such as patents continue to function in a world where new technologies are developed and go out-of-date in the space of a few months, if patents can take five years to obtain? If a robot...
  • 01.02.2018, News

  • Update available for Startup Village
  • Improvements in this version of Startup Village: Record crowds, new setting, creative catering. Like the leading smartphone apps, Startup Village is constantly evolving. The third edition of Russia and Eastern Europe’s biggest startup event is no...
  • 26.05.2015, News

  • IP in the Spotlight at International Lecture and Seminar
  • On July 4 a lecture and seminar discussing problems of intellectual property was conducted at the Hypercube. The audience and participants were presented by lawyers of Skolkovo Foundation’s partner companies as well as students of the summer school...
  • 26.07.2013, News

  • Webinar. Intellectual Property in Russia
  • Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about intellectual property in Russia. Don’t forget to tell your English speaking business partners, colleagues and friends about this webinar! What types of IP exist and protected in Russia? Are Russian...
  • 27.02.2013, IP Center