Austrian Companies to Participate in Russian Research Center

Politics ♦ Published: July 5, 2011; 19:55 ♦ (Vindobona)

The planned technology park will be home to up to 40,000 researchers. Twenty Austrian companies have expressed interest in participating in the project.

Austrian Companies to Participate in Russian Research Center / Picture: © Skolkovo

Doris Bures, Federal Minister of Transport, Innovation and Technology, and the Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg on Tuesday met in Vienna to sign a cooperation agreement on the planned research center Skolkovo. The technology park will be located close to Moscow and cover an area as large as the first district of Vienna. It will be home to 30,000 to 40,000 researchers from all over the…