Press about RVC

Until the end of 2020, Russia will have a system of personal certificates for the education of children and adults in the area of the digital economy competencies

26.02.2018, Nano News Net

In the next three years, a system of certificates for teaching the population the competencies of the digital economy will begin to work in Russia. Citizens of the Russian Federation will have an opportunity to form individual trajectories of development based on personal profiles of competences. This is stated in the action plan for the direction "Personnel and Education" of the program "Digital Economy", published on February 21, 2018 on the website of the government.

Interview with Mikhail Antonov of RVC about corporate innovation in Russia and the GenerationS initiative

22.02.2018, East-West Digital News (EWDN)

RVC, Russia’s state-owned fund of funds for innovation, supports a variety of initiatives and programs aimed at developing the country’s innovation ecosystem. Among its major initiatives over the past few years has been GenerationS, a giant acceleration program aimed at matching innovation ideas and startups with corporate needs. In this interview Mikhail Antonov, RVC’s Deputy CEO and Innovation Infrastructure Development Director, provides details about this program and its achievements to date.

Ask for money for your feasible projects. Why does not State support work and whose fault is it?

21.02.2018, Business district

Tools for helping businesses do exist today. But often they do not work, because entrepreneurs fall into extreme: either not to use them at all, or to launch start-ups only in terms of support.

In Russia, a competition is about to be launched to create an unmanned vehicle

16.02.2018, RIA News

The winner of the competition for the creation of an unmanned vehicle for winter roads of Russia will receive up to 200 million roubles, the results of the competition will be announced at the end of 2018, said Alexander Povalko, CEO and Chairman of the Board of RVC, in an interview with RIA Novosti.

"Strategy is the art of giving up some opportunities"

12.02.2018, Expert

Schoolchildren from all over the country gathered in the final of the Olympiad of the National Technological Initiative (NTI) to reflect on the most pressing engineering challenges: they moved loads without human intervention, invented intelligent energy, created neuroprosthetics, sought a cure for cancer, grew a happy trout, designed underwater robots and launched satellites. The slogan of the NTI Olympiad is "We are from the future". Apparently, the XXI century promises to be an era of engineers.

RVC and Sberbank are going to implement a conversational artificial intelligence project

19.01.2018, TASS

The project will be called iPavlov, the investments are estimated to be 300 million roubles

RVC's head expects Russian venture capital market to grow in 2018

19.01.2018, TASS

The CEO of the Russian Venture Company (RVC) Alexander Povalko is expecting Russian venture capital market to show a positive trend in 2018. He said so in an interview with Tass. Furthermore, he believes that 2017 also showed a positive trend, despite any formal indicators.

The NTI Foundation starts selecting projects with the focus on IT and robotics industries

18.01.2018, RIA News

The National Technology Initiative Foundation will start selecting projects in March and April, in particular in IT, artificial intelligence and robotics, Alexander Povalko, CEO and president of RVC, said in his interview with RIA News.

ASI will launch an Internet platform for start-ups in 2018

16.01.2018, TASS

Svetlana Chupsheva, the agency's CEO, said that teams willing to participate in NTI projects will be able to receive counselling support

Russia’s platform of science publications and documents goes global

15.01.2018, Indicator.ru

As of today, January 15, the global research platform Dimensions has become available in the territory of Russia and the CIS, containing 86 million articles and books and 124 million documents: patents, information on grants and industry standards, according to the press release, received by the editor of Indicator.Ru,

Over 200 applications have been submitted to Dual Technologies, the track of GenerationS,

12.01.2018, Iksmedia.ru

Over 200 project teams from 52 cities have applied for GenerationS, the largest start-up accelerator in Russia and Eastern Europe. The exclusive license to launch the track belongs to Infrafund RVK.

The Ministry of Education and Science selected the first 6 competence centers of the National Technological Initiative

29.12.2017, TASS

It is being noted that from 2017 to 2020 7.8 billion roubles will be spent by the government on supporting NTI competence centers

The universities will house the first competence centers of the National Technological Initiative

29.12.2017, Teacher's newspaper

The Russian Ministry of Education and Science has reported on the results of the competition to create competence centers for "end-to-end technologies" of the National Technological Initiative.

The State will allocate 7.8 billion roubles for the support of the NTI centers

29.12.2017, Firrma

The Contest's Commission of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science has designated six competence centers for the National Technological Initiative (NTI), which will be based at universities and scientific organizations in Moscow, Moscow Region, St. Petersburg and Vladivostok.

RVC launches a venture fund worth of 3 billion roubles

27.12.2017, Skolkovo

According to «Vedomosti», the Russian Venture Company (RVC) will create a fund worth 3 billion roubles.

NTI projects enjoying both grants and venture money

26.12.2017, Vedomosti

The Russian Venture Company (RVC) is reported to be creating a new venture fund with the capital of 3 billion roubles to finance the projects of the National Technological Initiative (VTI).

The technology fund worth of 10 billion roubles opens up in Far East

25.12.2017, TASS

The fund will be used to develop high-tech and innovative projects through seed and venture financing

The finals of the NTI's academic competition named “Olympiad” attended by 578 schoolchildren

25.12.2017, Chalk

Following the results of the second stage of the NTI’s Olympiad, 578 schoolchildren have entered the finals. They include specialists in 15 fields and children who won honourable prizes at the last year's NTI Olympiad and open engineering competitions.

Michael Antonov: thanks to federal support companies are given a hefty boost

22.12.2017, RIA News

This year has presented for the sixth time the results of the annual rating among start-ups "TechUspech-2017". Mikhail Antonov, Deputy CEO and Innovation Infrastructure Director at RVC has spoken with RIA News about why the rating is efficient in searching start-ups and what support the government is providing today.

Rating of Russian business angels 2017

20.12.2017, Firrma

Firrma by order of RVC in partnership with NABA and VC.ru presents the next annual rating of business angels, the most enthusiastic private venture investors in Russia.

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