Moscow City Government Acknowledged Accomplishments of HSE Staff Members
According to the decision of Sergey Sobyanin, Mayor of Moscow, fourteen HSE staff members were officially recognised by Moscow Government, with the awards being timed to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the university. Tatiana Kuznetsova, Director of the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge Centre for S&T, Innovation and Information Policy among them.
Foresight and STI Governance no 3, 2017
The special issue of the Foresight and STI Governance journal covers various aspects of innovation entrepreneurship in transition economies
Foresight and STI Governance Moves up to the Second Place in the Russian Science Citation Index’s Economics Magazines Ranking
According to the latest available data (for 2016), Foresight and STI Governance journal published by the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK) since 2007 has moved up to the second place in the Russian Science Citation Index’s ranking in the “Economics and Economic Science” category.
Education in Figures: Pocket Data Book
The pocket data book contains main indicators characterizing trends in the developmentof general, as well as lower and secondary vocational and higher education in the Russian Federation. It also covers key education indicators for OECD countries.
The President Noted HSE Researchers’ Contribution to Advancing Science and Education
The website kremlin.ru has published the Presidential Decree №416 of 10 September, 2017 rewarding six staff members of the Higher School of Economics “for major contribution to advancing science, education, and training high-skilled professionals, and for many years of conscientious work”. Among them was Leonid Gokhberg, HSE First Vice Rector and ISSEK Director, who was awarded the Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland, II grade”.
A series of ISSEK-authored papers published in Scientometrics
In 2017 a leading international journal in the field, Scientometrics, published six papers by staff members of the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge describing application of various sociology of science and Foresight techniques for the purposes of studying driving forces and directions of scientific development.
Article by HSE ISSEK Researchers Appears in Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology
ISSEK leading experts Gulnara Abdrakhmanova, Leonid Gokhberg, and Alexander Sokolov have written a chapter — ‘Indicators of Information and Communication Technology’ — for a 10-volume set of the Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, edited by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (Information Resources Management Association, USA). This publication came out in July 2017.
How BRICS countries are moving on in the biotechnology market
Biotech makes a relatively small segment of the global technology market, despite the noticeable growth during the recent decades. Ekaterina Streltsova, senior researcher at the HSE ISSEK, explored how BRICS countries are developing this industry using patent analysis techniques. Her panel report opened the biotechnology section at the II BRICS Young Scientists Forum (11–15 July, 2017, Hang Zhou, China).
Why International Students Choose the Study at Higher School of Economics?
Junior Research Fellow at the HSE Laboratory for Economics of Innovation, Alena Nefedova conducted a study on the reasons for choosing the Higher School of Economics by foreign students. The results were published in the journal Higher Education in Russia and Beyond (HERB).