We are creating a new center of innovative developments in Skolkovo, outside of Moscow.
Speaking about our Silicon Valley, about the Skolkovo project, we in Russia adopted an unprecedented measure.
It was really funny this one time we were sitting in a bar in Skolkovo.
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The aim is to build a long pipeline of start-ups to reside in Skolkovo.
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The government is also funding high tech start ups at its Skolkovo initiative in the outskirts of Moscow.
On the exploitation side Samsung recently agreed to open a lab at the new Skolkovo tech hub outside Moscow.
Nobody seriously doubts that Skolkovo will rise in one form or another although it will probably take longer than planned.
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The Skolkovo Foundation will then provide them with some initial cash and hope that venture capitalists invest in them.
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Skolkovo will be a special economic zone, a bit like Shenzhen in China.
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Skolkovo, an attempt to create a Silicon Valley-style technology cluster outside Moscow, has won plenty of headlines (see article).
Skolkovo will not fail because the benefits to be gained by the Medvedev government far outweigh the costs of supporting it.
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For an undisclosed sum, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has agreed to set up the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, or SkTech.
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Over 100 have received some money from the Skolkovo Foundation, and about half of these have attracted regular venture capital, mostly from Russian firms.
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Local schools usually adjust their curricula to local circumstances: the Moscow School of Management, Skolkovo, offers an MBA with an emphasis on coping with corruption.
Even the foreign venture capitalists who work with the Skolkovo Foundation do not invest directly in Russia, but funnel the cash through offshore shell companies.
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That may prove a lasting problem: being a Skolkovo resident does not mean that a company has to base its operations in the city, even after it is built.
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In April, the Skolkovo Foundation, chaired by Vekselberg, announced that it was collaborating with MIT on the creation of a new science and technology graduate university outside Moscow called SK Tech.
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Before you can implement wizzy state-of-the-art technologies at Skolkovo and hope to attract more foreign investors to a revitalized financial capital, you have to have a functional infrastructure that is not deformed by corruption.
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Innograd, a high-technology research hub in Skolkovo, is perhaps the largest state-directed effort to establish an innovation ecosystem for pioneering the next-generation technologies in the fields of telecommunications, life sciences and nuclear energy.
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Progress, Reuters news agency notes, has been slow on two trademarks of Mr Medvedev's modernisation drive: efforts to create a high-tech innovation incubator at Skolkovo, outside Moscow, and to turn the capital into a global financial centre.
Skolkovo has already lured some big names.
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We are establishing our continuation to see all this in the Silicon Valley, far from Moscow, which is the Skolkovo Center, and hope that our American partners will actively partake in this project and will have some good groundwork for that.
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He is appealing through the internet to the most enterprising people in Russia, and is inviting Russian and foreign scientists to come and innovate in a specially created zone, called Skolkovo, which would be protected against the rest of the country by a high security wall and honest police.
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