The Moscow News: Science on the sidelines
Kristen Blyth from The Moscow News in her article “Science on the sidelines” reports the results of ISSEK junior research fellow Maxim Kotsemir’s study on the dynamics of the publication activity of Russian researchers in Web of Science in 2001—2011. The Moscow News article is about Vladimir Fortov, the newly elected President of the Russian Academy of Sciences and current situation in Russian science.
Science, Technology and Innovation Policy for the Future
A multi-author book “Science, Technology and Innovation Policy for the Future. Potentials and Limits of Foresight Studies” edited by Dirk Meissner, Leonid Gokhberg and Alexander Sokolov is published by Springer Publishing House.
Information Bulletin “Statistical Characteristics of Professional Education Sphere”, 2013, no 1 (64)
The next issue of the Monitoring of Education Markets and Organizations (MEMO) information brochures series has been published. The bulletin presents a statistical survey covering activities of educational institutions in lower vocational, secondary vocational and higher education.
A Bridge between Science and Practice
On May 20, 2013, as part of Innovation Media Day, a discussion panel ‘Technologies of the Future: A View from Innovation Leaders, Development Institutions, and Media’ took place. The panel was organised by the HSE, RIA Novosti, and Russian Venture Company.
Economics of Science
How to evaluate research performance and efficiency of S&T activities? An attempt to find response on these and related questions was undertaken by the participants of the roundtable "Monitoring Economics of Science: Main Results and Development Prospects" that was organized by the HSE ISSEK at the 2nd day of the XIV April Conference.
R&D: Placing the Accent on Centres of Excellence
How centres of excellence should be run? According to which principles they should be funded? How their performance should be assessed? These issues attracted the most attention at the concluding sessions of the ISSEK’s seminar “Global Trends in Public R&D Investments” which took place on 4 April as part of the HSE’s XIV April International Academic Conference
Research and Development: What Centres of Excellence Should be Like
On 4 April, as part of the HSE’s XIV April International Academic Conference, HSE ISSEK hosted a seminar “Global Trends in Public R&D Investments: Designing, Setting Up and Running Centres of Excellence”
Public Sector e-Innovations
A working paper published in the SSRN by Liliana Proskuryakova, Gulnara Abdrakhmanova and Hans Pitlik analyses the relationship between some aspects of e-government and corruption in the public sector. The working paper continuously appears among the top ten downloaded papers in relevant thematic topics and e-journals of SSRN data base.
XIV April International Academic Conference: Interview with Jean Guinet
The head of the HSE ISSEK International Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies Jean Guinet commented on the key points of his paper “Increasing Efficiency of National Innovation System: Centres of Excellence’s Role”
XIV April International Academic Conference: Interview with Mu Rongping
Speaker on the ISSEK section Mu Rongping, director of the Institute of Policy and Management of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, shared Chinese experience in policy making based on long-term Foresights.