STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has reached an agreement with Russia’s Skolkovo Foundation, providing access to SciVerse Scopus and SciVal Funding. Skolkovo aims to strengthen the links between Russian and international science, technology, education, entrepreneurship and investment communities.
The Skolkovo Foundation manages direct investments in the Skolkovo Innovation Center, Russia’s hub of intellectual capital, a city of high tech industries stimulating the development of break-through projects and technologies. The development of the Skolkovo Innovation Center was initiated in 2010 after President Medvedev announced his commitment to Russia’s investments in R&D. It has since attracted leading global technology companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Boeing and Ericsson, integrating Russia’s R&D programme into the international innovation environment.
Skolkovo Innovation Center is also home to a major overarching innovation-technology university with direct involvement of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Russia’s leading technology universities. Providing this university with secured access to SciVerse Scopus and SciVal Funding will further support Skolkovo’s core mission to foster Russia’s technological innovations and bundle research activities to address critical issues at a national as well as global level.
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