Centre for S&T, Innovation and Information Policies

Director of the Center

Tatiana Kuznetsova

The Center carries out research related to the generalization and critical understanding of practices of creating and implementing Russia’s state policy in science, technology and innovation in the following key areas:

·       Projection of general global regularities onto Russia;

·       Study of the elements of a future national model for science and innovation organization and support which would be adequate for socio-economic  and political development tasks;

·       Conducting empirical studies of behavior in different subjects of the innovative process;

·       Creating, on the basis of the obtained results, recommendations for an evidence-based policy.

The projects implemented by the Center’s research staff use the results of ‘diagnosing’ the policy tools (institutional changes, financing, tax regulation, mobilization of resource potential, integration of science and education, commercialization of intellectual property objects, evaluation of the results of research organizations’ activity), including evaluating opportunities in Russia of using mechanisms and methods developed in leading foreign countries.

Special attention is paid to developing analytical papers, drafts of regulatory documents and recommendations for governmental bodies related to different measures of state policy. A major part of this work is commissioned by the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. A considerable number of the research projects are commissioned by public corporations and companies as well as development centers.

Members of the Center’s staff actively participate in the HSE’s programmes of fundamental and monitoring studies, as well as in international cooperation programmes (as part of BRICS, OECD, UNESCO and other projects), are authors of many Russian and international publications and participate in academic events both in Russia and overseas.