Incubators & technoparks Category: Incubators & technoparks

Rocket Internet

Rocket Internet receives $200 million from Russian-American billionaire Len Blavatnik

By East-West Digital News / May 11, 2012 / 1 Comment

Rocket Internet, the Samwer brothers’ famous Berlin incubator, has received a $200 million investment from Access Industries, a US based industrial holding owned by Russian-American billionaire Leonard Blavatnik. The news was reported earlier this week by Berlin-based tech blog VentureVillage.com, which cited unnamed industry sources.

The amount has placed Access Industries second behind Swedish investment company Kinnevik, VentureVillage.com notes. The latter spent a record €300 million on Rocket Internet and its portfolio companies in the last quarter alone.

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Skolkovo

Skolkovo to develop cooperation with China and Japan

By East-West Digital News / May 05, 2012

Skolkovo, the state-sponsored innovation hub nearing completion outside of Moscow, is seeking to extend its cooperation with China. Opportunities for cooperation were discussed last week at the Sino-Russian Trade and Investment Forum by China’s Vice-Premier Li Keqiang and Viktor Vekselberg, President of the Skolkovo Foundation.

Various leading Russian and Chinese businessmen were also in attendence at the forum, including top managers of Lenovo and ZTE, two companies actively developing activities in Russia.

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Expanding To Russia With Love by Fabernovel

Report: “Google, the US Yandex”

By FaberNovel, East-West Digital News / Apr 20, 2012 / 2 Comments

In association with East-West Digital News, faberNovel, a French innovation consulting firm with offices in Paris, San Francisco and Moscow, has just released an eye-opening presentation on the Russian Internet and innovation system.

The report features the latest data on the Russian market and its key players, of course, but then goes further, providing useful insights on the country’s innovation model in a historical perspective: from rocket pioneer Tsiolkovsky to cosmonaut Gagarin and on to such notable startups as Displair, Good Roads and ResumUp – which faberNovel sees as having a disruptive value proposition.

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US VCs go East

Skolkovo seeks more ties with US innovation

By Anna Andrianova, Russia Beyond The Headlines / Apr 03, 2012 / 1 Comment

On the last week of March, a team from the Skolkovo Foundation came to Silicon Valley for the 8th annual Global Technology Symposium. The symposium has always had a bit of a Russia focus, and this year was no different, featuring a half-day of sessions exclusively on Russia.

Another highlight of this year’s event was the inaugural meeting of the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission Innovation Working Group. The group was established at last year’s G8 summit by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and U.S. President Barack Obama and is headed by Medevedev’s economic aide Arkady Dvorkovich and Robert Hormats, U.S. Undersecretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs.

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Skolkovo

Skolkovo: Global majors hired to shape ‘smart city’

Special to East-West Digital News by Oleg Kouzbit in partnership with Marchmont News / Apr 02, 2012 / 1 Comment

The Skolkovo Foundation, which has been instrumental in pumping R&D funds into the Skolkovo innovation hub just outside Moscow since 2010, has contracted with an international consortium to create a comprehensive ‘smart city’ concept.

Under the terms of the 89.7 million ruble ($3 million) deal, the Russian software developer Cognitive Technologies, Britain’s Ernst&Young, the U.S.’ Cisco and Japan’s Panasonic, all companies chosen in February on a tender basis, are expected to sketch out a city management system by July.

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Tatarstan

Second IT park, new IT village in Tatarstan

Special to East-West Digital News by Oleg Kouzbit in partnership with Marchmont News / Mar 26, 2012 / 1 Comment

Russia’s second fastest-growing regional innovation economy in 2011 according to business monitor RBC Daily, is stepping up efforts to assert itself as one of the country’s most business-friendly ecosystems.

Less than three years after the regional capital city of Kazan opened IT Park, reportedly eastern Europe’s biggest techno-park, plans are now being laid for a second park, this one to be launched in Tatarstan’s second largest city, Naberezhnye Chelny, on August 30, 2012.

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Russia+Belorussia

Russia and Belarus shake hands on joint business accelerator and technopark

By Marchmont News, East-West Digital News / Mar 16, 2012

In a bid to step up innovation cooperation between Russia and neighboring Belarus, two government delegations met in Nizhny Novgorod on Wednesday to agree on the establishment of a Russian-Belarusian Business Accelerator and to further the finalization of a prospective inter-state technopark.

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Vist Group

Mine fleet management solution provider Vist Group eyes IPO

Special to East-West Digital News by Oleg Kouzbit in partnership with Marchmont News / Mar 13, 2012 / 1 Comment

Vist Group, a major, twenty-year-old Russian developer of turn-key IT solutions for mine fleet and railroad management systems, is considering seeking capital market opportunities, according to Reuters. A resident of Skolkovo, the government-sponsored technology hub outside Moscow, Vist could thus become the first Skolkovo resident to orchestrate an IPO.

Vist has declined to make any public comments, but observers presume the company could be eyeing the Innovation and Investment Market, a special trading platform within Russia’s MICEX stock exchange that is focused on high tech companies. The timeframe for the possible IPO is subject to speculation.

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Skolkovo

Made-in-Skolkovo products get first international clients

By East-West Digital News / Mar 09, 2012

The potential of Skolkovo, the state-sponsored innovation hub nearing completion outside of Moscow, as a research and development base for marketable high tech products has been illustrated, for one of the first times, by the first international sales of a cloud computing solution developed with the support of Skolkovo’s IT cluster.

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Skolkovo

Skolkovo’s influence extending to post Soviet countries

Special to East-West Digital News by Oleg Kouzbit in partnership with Marchmont News / Feb 28, 2012 / 1 Comment

In a renewed round of innovation cooperation in the post-Soviet area, the Skolkovo Foundation, the Russian organization in charge of building a world-class technology hub near Moscow, is expected to start screening and funding technology start-ups from the neighboring CIS countries.

The CIS Economic Council will vest the Foundation next month with full powers to run a ten-year interstate collaboration program, the Armenian Mediamax news agency reported.

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