On 18–20 November, 2015 the Higher School of Economics will host, together with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation organization (APEC) and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Annual international academic conference “Foresight and STI Policy”.
More than 20 presentations are scheduled over the three days, covering a wide range of topics – setting and implementing S&T development priorities, international cooperation in the area, further development of Foresight methodology, and advanced S&T policy tools, among many others.
In particular, the programme includes:
Round table discussion “The Main Principles of Priority Setting in the S&T Sector”
APEC 2015 economic workshop on STI cooperation
Main discussions will be webcast live. Registration is open up until 16 November.
The UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 was officially released at UNESCO headquarters, in Paris, on 10 November 2015. The results of this research are published every five years. Written by about 60 experts each covering the country or region from which they hail, the 820-pages UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 provides more country-level information than ever before. The chapter on the Russian Federation was written by Leonid Gokhberg, First Vice-Rector at HSE, Director of HSE ISSEK, and Tatiana Kuznetsova, Director of HSE ISSEK Centre for S&T, Innovation and Information Policy.
According to ISSEK’s Russian Cluster Observatory, more than 200 cluster initiatives are being implemented in Russia. At the same time, only 26 clusters are recognised at the federal level — those included in the list of pilot innovative territorial clusters and supported by the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. To collect reliable information about all clusters, experts of the Russian Cluster Observatory have designed an interactive database — Russian Cluster Map. It provides access to best practices and enables clusters to find new partners and investors. Cluster managers and other official representatives can input data about their clusters on the project website.
STI policy news and international research cooperation
The Centre for Advanced Studies in STI created last year and based at HSE ISSEK is one of the elements of Higher School of Economics’ new architecture that is relevant to the implementation of its competitiveness programme. On October, HSE Rector Yaroslav Kuzminov took part in a meeting hosted by Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets at the Russian Government to discuss ways of improving the global competitiveness of Russian universities.
A regular meeting of the Eurostat Working Group on Information Society Statistics (WG ISS) took place in Luxembourg in October. Experts discussed two new European Union surveys on ICT use in organizations and households. These surveys are due to be launched in 2017. The meeting was attended by two ISSEK experts: Director of the Centre for Statistics and Monitoring of Information Society Gulnara Abdrakhmanova, and Director of the Centre for Socio-Economic Information Processing Elena Nechaeva.
On September, a delegation from Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology visited HSE. Dr. Yi-Bing Lin, head of the delegation and world-class IT expert and Taiwan’s Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, gave an interview to the HSE portal. He shared his views on the future of IT and talked about the potential for partnerships between Russia and Taiwan in various areas of science.
The Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, USA), ISSEK’s partner in a number of projects, hosted two conferences on STI policy and technology analysis in September. ISSEK Foresight Centre staff members Ozcan Saritas, Nadezhda Mikova, and Pavel Bakhtin made presentations on applying ‘tech mining’ techniques to monitor technology trends.
62 joint Russian-EU STI projects will be funded by the ERA.Net RUS Plus consortium. This was announced at the funding parties’ meeting at St. Petersburg State University in July. Elena Nasybulina, leading expert at HSE ISSEK National Contact Point for the international mobility of researchers, took part in the meeting (jointly with the Foresight Centre, the NCP conducted a study to identify priorities for international research partnerships).
In July, HSE ISSEK Research Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies was joined by a new colleague — Senior Research Fellow David Sarpong, Programme Lead for the Bristol MSc International Management at the University of the West of England, UK. In an interview to the HSE News Service, he shared his first impressions and expectations of working at HSE.
Data book “Indicators of Education: 2015” Pocket data book “Education in Figures: 2015” Pocket data book “Science. Innovation. Information Society: 2015”
Information bulletins (in Russian) presenting results of HSE monitoring research
Monitoring of Education Markets and Organizations no. 14: Availability of pre-school education: choosing kindergarten, e-queuing no. 13: Efficient contract and changing working conditions of teachers no. 12: Work strategies of university teachers no. 11: Implementing federal standards for secondary vocational training at vocational schools no. 10: Implementing vocational training programmes no. 9: Choosing the school no. 8: Effect of growing numbers of pupils on schools’ activities, and dealing with the second shift problem: survey of secondary school directors
Monitoring the Business Climate for Industry and Service Sector Enterprises Economic Sentiment Index (HSE Index) in 2Q and 3Q 2015 Industry in July, August, September, and October 2015 Construction in 3Q 2015 Wholesale in 2Q 2015 Retail in 3Q 2015 Service sector in 2Q and 3Q 2015 The Russian real sector and service sector in 2Q 2015
ISSEK research provides data for regular publications in mass media and at the HSE website, in particular in the Figure of the Day section:
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