Tomsk

Siberian high tech company teams up with Singapore’s HaxAsia to launch local “fund-accelerator”

Just one year after Russia saw the launch of its first hardware-oriented accelerator, DI Group, a Tomsk, Siberia-based high tech group, has launched a “venture fund-accelerator” targeting startups in the fields of smartphones, electronics, gadgets and Internet projects. The acceleration program of up to six months encompasses the industrial design and the marketing aspects of each …

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Tomsk university and US firm to open joint scientific center in Siberia

The Tomsk University of Control Systems and Radio Electronics (TUSUR) and Keysight Technologies, a US company, have plans to open Siberia’s first scientific and educational center in Tomsk in early 2015, portal Globalsib.com reported. TUSUR is reported to have already launched this past fall its new master’s degree program focused on the automation of the …

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Snowbound Siberian outpost aims for Silicon-Valley status

Tomsk, Russia — If there were ever a place for a cutting-edge innovation hub, this snowbound Siberian outpost with a population of 500,000 probably wouldn’t be the first choice. Deep in the Russian hinterland, it stands at the dead end of a train line off the Trans-Siberian railway. Its airport services only Moscow, a few …

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