History of Skolkovo

The main articles are:

• Skolkovo Innovation Center
• Financing Skolkovo
• Skolkovo Resident Companies
• Skoltech (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skoltech)
• Skolkovo Performance Indicators

2024: The government approved the transfer of Skolkovo to the management of Moscow

On August 5, 2024, the Government of the Russian Federation submitted to the State Duma a bill on the transfer to Moscow of part of the powers to regulate the activities of the Skolkovo innovation center. We are talking, in particular, about the medical sphere and urban planning.

The document says that Moscow is actively involved in the development of Skolkovo. The construction and operation of a number of facilities of the citywide infrastructure of this center is carried out with the financial and organizational support of the Russian capital. On the territory of Skolkovo, medical activities are carried out, including within the framework of the international medical cluster, the functioning of which is carried out by Moscow.

The government will transfer powers to Moscow on the infrastructure of the Skolkovo innocenter

In this regard, as they say, a deeper integration of Moscow into the management of the center is expedient. Part of the auxiliary functions of the Skolkovo Foundation for the development and ensuring the functioning of the center (regulation of urban planning and medical activities, development and operation of the citywide territory, organization of transport services and utilities) will be transferred to the state authorities of Moscow or organizations that are established and determined by the government of the capital of the Russian Federation.

In addition, in accordance with the bill, the Moscow government will be empowered to carry out measures aimed at achieving the goals of the Skolkovo project in terms of organizing research activities, commercializing its results, creating and ensuring the use of infrastructure facilities in the center. The financial support of the relevant functions is planned to be carried out at the expense of the budget of Moscow, the funds of organizations established (established) and determined by the government of the capital, as well as at the expense of other sources not prohibited by law.^[1]

2023

Agreement with Sberbank on reimbursement of investments in university startups

Sberbank on June 15, 2023 announced that it would become a partner in the federal project "Platform of University Technological Entrepreneurship" of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia. A base of university startups will appear on the venture online hub SberUnity, for investments in which private investors will be able to receive up to 50% of the cashback from the Skolkovo Foundation. The corresponding agreement was signed by First Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sberbank Alexander Vedyakhin and Chairman of the Board of the Skolkovo Foundation Igor Drozdov. Read more here.

Plan for supporting AI implementation projects for 900 million rubles

The Skolkovo Foundation in 2023 will continue to support projects of Russian companies introducing domestic solutions based on artificial intelligence technologies. The size of the grant will be from 20 to 100 million rubles. The support measure is provided for by the federal project "Artificial Intelligence" of the national program "Digital Economy of Russia." The curator of the direction is Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko. The fund announced this on April 3, 2023.

Companies implementing AI technologies for digital business transformation can apply for grants. Projects using artificial intelligence to improve products, services and platform solutions of companies should be pilot. At the same time, support is possible provided that customers co-finance IT solutions at least 50% of the project estimate from extrabudgetary sources.

The main conditions of participation in the program:

• tax resident status; Russia
• compliance of the project with the criteria in the field of AI established by the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia;
• The project is cost effective, and the solution being implemented has the potential for replication and competitiveness.

We have taken a course towards ensuring the large-scale introduction of artificial intelligence technologies in industries. The key task is to create a domestic sales market for AI solutions. I am sure that such a measure in the current conditions will find a response from many companies and will become the starting point for the widespread introduction of domestic solutions, said Maxim Kolesnikov, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, head of the federal project "Artificial Intelligence" of the national program "Digital Economy of the Russian Federation."

The support measure was launched in 2021. Then the Fund supported eight pilot AI implementation projects totaling 569 million rubles. Among the grantees are enterprises of industry, health care, education, agriculture. In 2023, we plan to support at least nine projects. The expected result of the support measure is the expansion of the practical application of artificial intelligence in order to increase the efficiency of production processes, improve the availability and quality of goods and services for our citizens, noted Igor Drozdov, Chairman of the Board of the Skolkovo Foundation.

2022: Agreement with the Ministry of Industry and Trade on technological partnership

Ministry of Industry and Trade Skolkovo and "" signed a cooperation agreement. Skolkovo reported this on June 17, 2022.

The request of industrial enterprises for technologies through the channels of the Ministry of Industry and Trade will be received by Skolkovo. The innovation center, like a large registry of startups, will select technological solutions. This approach will help reduce the distance in technological chains and accelerate the pace of import substitution. The corresponding cooperation agreement was signed by the Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia Denis Manturov and Chairman of the Board of the Skolkovo Foundation Igor Drozdov.

Thanks to the integration of digital systems, Skolkovo residents will quickly receive the most up-to-date information on measures to stimulate activities in the industry: on support measures, requests from industrial enterprises to solve specific problems. The Ministry of Industry and Trade will use the digital services of the Fund to find the necessary industries for technology developers.

This collaboration will help reduce the distance between the need for technology and its integration into production. Cooperation with scientific teams will accelerate the transition of the national economy to an innovative type of development. It is planned to develop seamless integration of support measures both from the Ministry and from the Fund. This will make them more affordable for enterprises producing high-value-added products, said Denis Manturov, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.

Skolkovo builds interaction between technological startups and large industrial customers, including using the R&D service platform. Any customer can leave a request on the platform, and the executors will provide a ready-made technological solution or create it. So we help reduce the distance between the idea and the introduction of the finished product. A new stage of cooperation with the Ministry of Industry and Trade is aimed at supporting domestic industry in order to ensure the technological sovereignty of Russia, noted Igor Drozdov, Chairman of the Board of the Skolkovo Foundation.

2021

Completion of the selection of startups within the Data Explorer

The Skolkovo Foundation and the Ai-Teko Innovation Center have completed the selection of the most promising startups within the Data Explorer. The IC announced this on October 14, 2021. Three finalist companies of IC Ai-Teko compensated for the cost of participating in the accelerator. Read more here.

Launch of a competition among Russian IT organizations with a grant size of up to 120 million rubles

On October 13, 2021, the Skolkovo Foundation announced that it was launching a competition among Russian organizations introducing innovative domestic solutions in the field of information technology. The amount of the grant ranges from 20 to 120 million rubles. At least 50 projects will receive funding until 2024. The support measure is provided for by the federal project "Digital Technologies" of the national program "Digital Economy of Russia."

Russian companies that implement or plan to implement Russian IT solutions for transforming technological or business processes, providing digital services or improving products can apply for a grant.

When selecting applications for the competition, the compliance of IT solutions with priority areas of state support for projects, the level of readiness of the technology being implemented, and the economic effectiveness of the pilot project are assessed. Replication potential also plays an important role.

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From 2021 to 2024, it is planned to support at least 50 pilot projects. The volume of grant support from the federal budget will amount to about 4.5 billion rubles.

Our joint program with the Government is a springboard for young and promising teams offering innovative solutions to optimize the activities of large companies. With its help, startups have the opportunity to implement their ideas and solutions in the field of information technology. Skolkovo has been an operator of government grants for several years. During this time, a wealth of experience has been accumulated, mechanisms for cooperation with applicants have been built. And the maximum grant size in 2021 increased from 80 million to 120 million rubles, noted Arkady Dvorkovich, Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation.

2020

Natalya Kasperskaya accused Skolkovo of agitating IT companies to move abroad

At the end of October 2020, the chairman of the board of the association of software developers Domestic software"" Natalia Kasperskaya sent a Skolkovo Arkady Dvorkovich letter to the chairman of the fund, "" the former deputy prime minister, in which she accused the technopark of agitating IT companies to move abroad - to, in, Ukraine or Poland. Latvia Lithuania

As explained by News"," we are talking about the online panel discussion "Relocation of a startup to countries Europe," which took place at the Go Global World community site under the auspices of the Skolkovo technopark. At this event, startups were shown a "brief step-by-step instruction" on drawing up documents for traveling abroad and gave recommendations to reduce costs when moving businesses and moving the families of the specialists themselves.

Holding events similar to the online discussion "Relocation of a startup to European countries" runs counter to the policy of the Russian state in the development of the domestic IT industry, as well as the mission of the technopark itself. Because it turns out that instead of a favorable environment for intellectual potential, a bridgehead is being created for exporting brains abroad, "Natalya Kasperskaya said in a letter to Dvorkovich.

According to her, the holding of such an event is aimed at forming among domestic IT specialists "stable channels for traveling abroad to establish the free export of domestic knowledge, competencies and technologies that are stronger on state financing."

Skolkovo CEO Renat Batyrov, answering Kasperskaya, explained that the technopark has been working with Go Global World for a long time and agreed to informationally support the panel discussion, in which he initially did not see any big risks.

Of course, Skolkovo never independently initiates such topics... We will be more careful about supporting such events, - said[2]

The appearance of the regional operator of the Skolkovo Foundation in the Tomsk Region

The fourteenth regional operator of the Skolkovo Foundation will be the Center for Innovative Development of the Tomsk Region. This decision was made during an online meeting of the Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation Arkady Dvorkovich and the Governor of the Tomsk Region Sergei Zhvachkin. This was announced on July 30, 2020 by the Foundation. Read more here.

Support of innovative startups together with SME Bank

On June 17, 2020, the Skolkovo Foundation announced that, together with SMEs, the Bank had signed an agency agreement with exclusive conditions for financial support for Skolkovo residents. The document will allow the Fund to help small and medium-sized companies undergo the procedure for obtaining financial leverage from SMEs of the Bank, as well as assist in obtaining guarantees from the SME Corporation for high-tech startups as collateral.

In the line of products of SME Bank, the most popular product for high-tech companies is the Startup loan, where funds in the amount of 1 million to 2 billion rubles are provided for up to 7 years at a rate of 7.75% per annum. As of June 2020, eight Skolkovo residents submitted applications for this loan for a total of 735 million rubles. Among them are the companies Copter Express Technologies, Pimpey and Barriers.

state As part of the program to support small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) affected by the spread, the anti-crisis coronavirus product of direct lending "Credit for the resumption of SMEs" was launched with the ability, while maintaining the staff of the enterprise, to completely write off the loan through a subsidy. Ministry of Economic Development RUSSIAN FEDERATION As of June 17, 2020, Skolkovo member companies are also actively submitting applications. According to forecasts, more than 100 residents of the Fund will take advantage of this type of loan.

Another area of ​ ​ cooperation was the development of lending to high-tech innovative companies secured by intangible assets. At the working level, an agreement was reached on the selection and lending together with the Skolkovo Foundation of 2-3 pilot applications.

Thanks to cooperation with the SME Corporation and SME Bank, the Skolkovo Foundation and its residents have another tool for real support for innovative companies: affordable credit resources will allow startups to use the opportunities they have before them, realize their potential and create competitive industries. I am sure that the successful interaction of the Skolkovo Foundation, SME Corporation and SME Bank will have a positive effect on the development of Russian innovative entrepreneurship.

Support for high-tech companies, including startups, is one of the priorities of the SME Corporation. For such companies there is a special product that allows you to receive a guarantee in the amount of up to 70% of the loan amount. At the same time, when implementing projects in certain high-tech industries (IT, biotechnology, robotics, pharmaceuticals, mechanical engineering, etc.), it is possible to ensure up to 100% of obligations.

Together with the SME Corporation, we managed to create a convenient loan product for innovative startups. Thanks to the guarantee of the SME Corporation, it is available to a large range of entrepreneurs. Together with the Skolkovo Foundation, we will be able to bring support for advanced high-tech enterprises to a higher level and create favorable conditions for their development.

ChelPipe Group Research Center will appear in Skolkovo

The Skolkovo Foundation and the ChelPipe Group on April 30, 2020 announced the signing of an agreement on the creation of a Center for Innovation Development. His appearance in the Skolkovo IC is planned by 2021. The volume of investments from the ChelPipe Group for the work of the Center will amount to at least 100 million rubles over three years. Read more here.

Opening of BCS Bank fintech company in Skolkovo technopark

On February 20, 2020, BCS Bank told TAdviser that its research center, BCS Fintech, had begun work in the Skolkovo technopark, whose activities will be aimed at creating innovative developments and commercializing them in the direction of "strategic computer technologies and software." Read more here.

2019

Launch of Orange Fab Accelerator and Orange Customer Innovation Center

On October 22, 2019, a partnership agreement was signed between Orange Business Services Russia and the CIS and. Within the Skolkovo Foundation framework of which the international service -provider Orange Business Services opens an accelerator Orange Fab and a Customer Innovation Center at Skolkovo. In the status of a partner, Orange will carry out activities at Skolkovo that contribute to the development of research, development and commercialization of their results. More. here

Opening of the Center for Innovation and the Internet of Things in Healthcare

On October 22, 2019, AstraZenek announced to TAdviser the opening of the Center for Innovation and the Internet of Things in Healthcare at Skolkovo. The center will become a platform for combining the experience and efforts of business, the state, scientific institutes and startups, health care institutions and medical associations. His work is designed to promote the transformation and development of the health care system in Russia. Read more here.

Opening of an expert non-profit blockchain center

On August 27, 2019, it became known that the Skolkovo Foundation and Waves Enterprise opened an expert non-profit blockchain center. The center will help introduce distributed registry technologies to large businesses and government agencies, develop the market for projects and products in Russia and abroad. Read more here.

Plan for the opening of the EFKO research center on the territory of Skolkovo

On July 9, 2019, EFKO announced its intention to place its outpost on the territory of Skolkovo to search for new technologies and startups in the field of bio- and food technologies. Read more here.

Space Communications opened an updated Mission Control Center at Skolkovo

On June 14, 2019, information appeared that Space Communications (GP KS) opened an updated Mission Control Center (TSUP) at Skolkovo. The company explained the need to improve the TSUP with the upcoming launches of new satellites. GP KS expects to launch seven satellites into geostationary orbit (GSO) and four into high elliptical orbit (VEO) by 2026.

The director of the Skolkovo Space Communications Center, Alexander Krylov, said that with the update, the KS GP will have the opportunity to expand the TSUP to control promising satellites.

As of June 2019, the satellite constellation of the KS GP consists of 11 spacecraft on the GSO: Express-AM8, Express-AM44, Express-AMU1, Express-AM7, Express-AM6, Express-AT1, Express-AM33, Express-AM3, Express-AM5, Express-AT2 and Express-A4. According to the plans of Cosmic Communications, by 2026 Express-AMU4 (11 ° W), Express-AMU6 (53 ° E), Express-E80 (80 ° E), Express-AMU3 (96.5 ° E), Express-AMU5 (103 ° E), Express-E-103 (140 ° E) "Orbit - Express Express 5" (145 ° A.D.)

A unified unified communication and data transmission system is being created on the basis of domestic network equipment, which makes it possible to flexibly use the enterprise's ground facilities to control existing and promising satellites, "commented Alexander Krylov on the event.[3]

Signing a memorandum on the establishment of the Center for Innovation and the Internet of Things in Healthcare in Russia

On June 6, 2019, a memorandum was signed between the international biopharmaceutical company AstraZenek, the Skolkovo Foundation, Nokia companies, Factory of Radiotherapy Technology LLC (R-Pharm group of companies), Russian Post, Sberbank on the creation of a Center for Innovation and the Internet of Things in Healthcare on the basis of the Fund, which is planned to open in October 2019. Read more here.

Agreement with SAP to Advance power Developments Abroad

On June 6, 2019, the Skolkovo Foundation and SAP signed an agreement on strategic cooperation in supporting partner developments and promoting information technologies in the power. The main goal of cooperation is to support the development of Skolkovo residents, assistance in the implementation and promotion of innovative projects to foreign markets.

The Skolkovo Foundation has initiated a number of complex projects for the development and implementation of digital technologies in the electric power industry with the participation of Skolkovo startups, industrial partners and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology. As part of the creation and piloting of technological and IT solutions in the Kaliningrad and Chelyabinsk regions, the network companies of the central part of Russia will combine the competencies of network operators, the engineering competencies of Russian startups and the best available IT solutions of international vendors. Thanks to international cooperation in projects, the Skolkovo Foundation plans to promote developed complex solutions not only to the Russian power, but also to foreign markets.

SAP will provide expert and architectural support to companies for partner software development based on their technologies, the transfer of the finished product to the SAP platform, or integration with vendor systems. The created solutions will undergo a partner software certification process, as a result of which it can be included in the international online catalog of SAP products and published on the partner application portal. More than 380 thousand customers of the company have access to it. In addition, the partner can be supported in SAP startup accelerators in terms of business consulting, technical implementation and promotion of the solution to the global market through pilot projects with SAP clients.

Creation of the "STC Galaxy" on the territory of the Skolkovo center

On March 18, 2019, Galactica Corporation announced that it was joining forces with the Skolkovo Foundation for joint research and innovation activities. Within the framework of the concluded partnership agreement, the Galactica NTC scientific and technical center will be created on the territory of the Skolkovo Innovation Center. Read more here.

2018

Huawei and the Skolkovo Foundation will together create an innovative partner center

Huawei on October 16, 2018 announced the signing of a partnership agreement with the Skolkovo Foundation. The agreement is aimed at creating a joint partner center on the territory of the Skolkovo Innovation Center. The document was signed by Lu Rui, director of Huawei's research center in Russia, and Konstantin Parshin, vice president, executive director of the Skolkovo Foundation's IT cluster.

The agreement is focused on the joint research activities of Huawei and Skolkovo within the framework of the partner center. The priority direction of the center will be the development of ICT technologies.

Huawei will regularly take part in scientific and technological conferences and other public events of the Foundation, as well as organize its own competitions, practices, master classes, lectures, consultations and practical seminars. The agreement also stipulates the prospect of creating a common laboratory for Huawei and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, the focus of which will be research in the ICT field.

Partner research centers make an invaluable contribution to the development of the ecosystem of the Skolkovo Innovation Center. Together with Huawei, startups will be able to take part in the development of products that will be used around the world. I would especially like to emphasize Huawei's active interaction in the field of applied research with the Skolkov Institute of Science and Technology, - said Konstantin Parshin, vice president, executive director of the Skolkovo Foundation's IT cluster.

Arkady Dvorkovich appointed Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation

On September 21, 2018, it became known that Arkady Dvorkovich, co-chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation Council, was appointed Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation for a period of 5 years. This decision was made at a meeting of the Fund Council on September 20, 2018. In addition, the development of the territory of the International Medical Cluster and the direction of support for the development of IT platforms were considered.

The position of Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation officially appeared in the Charter of the Fund. President of the Skolkovo Foundation Viktor Vekselberg congratulated Arkady Dvorkovich. Read more here.

RTSoft opened the Interactive power Laboratory at Skolkovo

On June 18, 2018, Skolkovo opened the Interactive power Laboratory (Intelab), an R&D division of RTSoft. Intelab will develop innovative solutions in a cluster of energy-efficient technologies, RTSoft said. Read more here.

FAAR Industry will open the first unmanned vehicle laboratory in Russia

The open laboratory will work on the basis of solutions developed and implemented by the French company FAAR Industry, using unique infocommunication technologies from residents of the Skolkovo Foundation. The software and hardware complex for managing multimodal and unmanned vehicles, which has no analogues in the world, will be located in Skolkovo. Part of the transport infrastructure of the Innovation Center will be managed centrally, in real time. The total investment in the project in the next 3 years will be about 7.5 million euros.

Arkady Dvorkovich appointed co-chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation instead of Craig Barrett

Arkady Dvorkovich, who left the post of Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Government in May 2018, was elected co-chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation Council. Prior to that, the fund had one co-chairman of the council - Viktor Vekselberg, who also holds the post of president of the Skolkovo Foundation^[4]

According to the Charter of the Skolkovo Foundation, the Fund Council is headed by two pro bono co-chairs. The second co-chair until recently was former IntelPresident Craig Barrett, who resigned at the end of 2017.

In May 2018, Arkady Dvorkovich announced the main directions of his work in the Innovation Center in the coming years.

First of all, Arkady Dvorkovich thanked the members of the Skolkovo Foundation Council, who chose him as co-chairman. He recalled that the project of the innovation center was developed eight years ago under the leadership of the president who held the post in those years. Russia Dmitry Medvedev The Skolkovo Innocenter was originally planned as a platform for innovative development of the entire country, and not just the territory on which it is located. The co-chairman of the Fund Council stressed that this task was completed. At this time, more than 1800 startups are residents of the Fund, and their revenue in 2017 exceeds 48 billion. rubles

Arkady Dvorkovich, co-chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation Council: "My daily work, starting in July, after the World Cup, will consist in bringing Skolkovo to a new level of development so that it becomes a truly driving force for innovation in the country. We have a good base for this. Under the leadership of Viktor Feliksovich Vekselberg, a lot has been done, and now we will continue to develop Skolkovo together.

The co-chairman of the Fund Council clarified that in 2018 the campus of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology should open on the territory of Skolkovo. Financial companies are starting to work, laboratories of large Skolkovo partners are being deployed. However, this is about 10% of what was planned, said Arkady Dvorkovich. The critical level of infrastructure necessary for the explosive development of innovative business within Skolkovo is gradually accumulating, he said.

2017

Sber Tech will open an office in Skolkovo

On October 20, 2017, Sberbank-Technologies announced the opening of an office in Skolkovo. By the end of 2017, the company plans to rent premises on the territory of the Skolkovo innovation center and place 200 of its employees there. Agreements on the opening of the company's office were reached during the international forum "Open Innovations," which was held at the Skolkovo Technopark from October 16 to 18, 2017.

Sberbank is a partner of the Skolkovo Foundation, operating through a subsidiary of Sberbank-Technologies. The main goal of moving some of the company's employees is to implement current Sber Tech IT projects and interact with the fund as a partner innovation center. In the future, participation in the fund's initiatives to create a digital economy, including the establishment of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Competencies.

In addition, the parties agreed to hold a number of joint events for technology startups and IT specialists.

Rostelecom and Nokia will create a pilot zone of the 5G network in Skolkovo

On October 17, 2017, an agreement was signed between Rostelecom"," Nokia Skolkovo Foundation and on the creation of an experimental network zone 5G on the territory of the Skolkovo innovation center. The parties agreed on a list of scenarios for the possible use of fifth-generation wireless technologies that can be implemented within the framework of the project. It is expected that the implementation of these scenarios will demonstrate the capabilities of the latest communication technologies for their further use in various sectors of the economy. More. here

Rostec creates a partner center at Skolkovo

On October 17, 2017, Rostec State Corporation and the Skolkovo Foundation signed an agreement on the placement of a partner center on the territory of the Skolkovo innovation center. On the part of Rostec, the agreement was signed by the first deputy general director Vladimir Artyakov, on the part of Skolkovo - by the president of the fund Viktor Vekselberg. The state corporation plans to allocate 300 million rubles by 2020. to finance the operations of the center.

The partner center is created on the basis of the Informhimmash enterprise, which is part of the Armament cluster of the Rostec State Corporation. The cluster is already working on pilot projects of products in the civil sector, which will be implemented jointly with Skolkovo.

Goals of creation

The partner center is created for the implementation of promising investment projects, the development and production of high-tech products. The projects will be initiated by Rostec holding companies, residents of the Skolkovo innovation center, as well as international partners of Rostec. The projects will be financed both at the expense of the state corporation's own funds and at the expense of private investors.

When implementing projects, scientific and technical expertise will be carried out and the competencies of enterprises included in the Rostec circuit will be used. The possibility of using the expert potential of the Skolkovo Foundation is also being considered.

As noted, for the state corporation, the creation of a partner center, first of all, is one of the tools for the implementation of the development strategy until 2025 in terms of the growth of civil revenue and attracting "smart capital." So, if in 2016 the volume of production of civilian products amounted to 374 billion rubles, then by 2025 this figure should already be at the level of 2.5 trillion rubles, and the volume of the investment program in 2018-2025. should amount to about 3.8 trillion rubles.

According to Vladimir Artyakov, Rostec's strategy includes attracting technological partners and initiating joint projects to grow civilian revenue. It is expected that the center will become a single window for all enterprises of the state corporation and will contribute to the implementation of Russian ideas and developments of Industry 4.0 in real production conditions.

Priorities

Priority areas of the partner center are defined: new materials and their processing, computer technology and electronics (engineering, instrument engineering and new microelectronics technologies, component base and materials for the radio-electronic industry and the creation of communications, software for the telecommunications business, service platforms and subscriber systems), additive technologies, synthetic biology.

2015: Medvedev made it easier to attract foreigners to Skolkovo

The Russian government has simplified^[5], the procedure for attracting foreign citizens for scientific and pedagogical activities in the Skolkovo Innovation Center. The corresponding decree was published on Friday, April 16, on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers^[6] of^[7]

As^[8] government's press service explains on^[9], the Federal Law "On the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation" provides ^[10] the possibility of using foreign workers on the basis of employment contracts concluded with them and with an appropriate work permit.

A number of organizations are exempted from the need to obtain permission if foreign workers are invited to engage in research or pedagogical activities.

Earlier, in 2012, the government approved a list of scientific and innovative organizations that have the right to invite foreigners to Russia for research or pedagogical activities without permission to attract and use foreign workers.

The new decree includes legal entities involved in the creation and operation of the Skolkovo Center. Currently, about 1.5 thousand organizations are participating in the project.

As noted, the decision made will contribute to the implementation of the goals and objectives of the Skolkovo project.

Within the framework of the Skolkovo project, there are five clusters developing innovative projects - information, biomedical, nuclear, space and a cluster of energy-efficient technologies.

The Skolkovo Board of Trustees and the Commission for the Modernization and Technological Development of the Russian Economy are headed by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

2011

Site drop from Habra effect

On the night of April 10-11, 2011, the country's most innovative website, the Skolkovo Foundation website, went offline from the so-called Khabr effect. A huge influx of users to the site began at 2.38 after the discussion in the blogs of the Habrahabr.ru project of the process of creating the i-gorod.com site and the investments allocated for it began. ^[11].

That night, users and guests of the Habra project began discussing information and financial support for the website of the Development Fund of the Center for the Development and Commercialization of New Technologies (Skolkovo Foundation) i-gorod.com. In a few hours, the Habra community provided such an influx of visitors to the site that it led to the suspension of its work.

Habra users recognized that the site was made on a free version of the UMI CMS engine (this is mentioned in the original site code), found out that the domain delegation expired today and was automatically extended for another year, and also found, downloaded and replicated the archive of the entire site, including valid passwords.

VTsIOM: 44% of Russians know about Skolkovo

In April 2011, VTsIOM studied the attitude of Russians towards the Skolkovo innograd. It turned out that at the moment it is one of the most famous elements of the national innovation system: to one degree or another, 44% of Russians are informed about it. In general, our fellow citizens are developing a positive image of the center: most often, respondents imagine it as a science city (10.6%), a center for the latest developments (6.4%), a city for scientists (3.8%), an analogue of Silicon Valley (2.6%), a center in which they will develop science (2.5%), etc. The share of the "real audience" (i.e. those who know and have the current idea of ​ ​ the Skolkovo center) today is 32% of Russians. Another 12% of respondents are still a "potential audience" (i.e. declare awareness of the center, but at the same time find it difficult to indicate what exactly they know). The share of the "hard-to-reach audience" (i.e. those who know nothing about the Skolkovo center) is 56% of the population surveyed today.

The Skolkovo Center is associated among Russians, primarily with the first persons of the state: D. Medvedev (6.9%) and V. Putin (5.7%). Figures such as A. Chubais (2.1%), J. Alferov (1.5%), M. Prokhorova (0.9%), V. Vekselberg (0.4%) and others are also mentioned.

The creation of the Skolkovo innovation center is considered by Russians to be one of the most important Russian projects of the 21st century (22%) after the Olympics Sochi in 2014 (74%) and the World Cup in 2018 (42%). More than a third of Russians are already positive about any of their entourage working in Skolkovo (38%). Young (46%), highly educated (44%) and well-off respondents (49%) have the most positive attitude. The most preferred employment option in the innovation center is for respondents the position of engineer (15%), scientist/researcher (14%).

About a third of our fellow citizens (30%) would like to receive information about Skolkovo at least once a month. Russians under the age of 45 (34-36%), highly educated (36%) and wealthy respondents (39%) are most interested in these data. The most popular source of information about the Skolkovo innovation center is television: it is through this type of media that 58% of Russians prefer to learn the latest news about the project. Significantly less than those who want to receive information through online publications (13%) and blogs (9%), radio (9%), etc.

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