Figure of the day: 57%
of full-time university students in 2014 worked in parallel with their studies. More than 30% of them indicated that their work is related to their future profession. These data were obtained in a survey of students at institutions of higher education that was carried out as part of a Monitoring of Education Markets and Organisations (MEMO) study conducted by HSE in collaboration with the Levada Centre in 2014.
Foresight Courses in Manchester: Evolution of HSE Expert Participation
The annual foresight courses which have been running at Manchester University since 1999 are considered some of the most prestigious and important for researchers of the future. In July 2015 two researchers at the Foresight Centre at ISSEK who have been students on the courses themselves have been invited this year to come and teach.
Foresight Courses in Manchester: Evolution of HSE Expert Participation
The annual foresight courses which have been running at Manchester University since 1999 are considered some of the most prestigious and important for researchers of the future. In July 2015 two researchers at the Foresight Centre at ISSEK who have been students on the courses themselves have been invited this year to come and teach.
Figure of the Day: 6 Reasons to Study in HSE’s Governance of Science, Technology, and Innovation Programme
This year, HSE’s English-language Master’s Programme in the Governance of Science, Technology, and Innovation will admit its second class to the programme. Students will learn to manage technologies and innovations effectively at all stages of the process, from inception to implementation and at the corporate, regional, national, and international levels. This is undoubtedly an extremely prospective area of study, but this is not the only reason to apply to the programme.
Figure of the day: 16
was the increase in the number of working hours per week for teachers at Russian universities in 2014 in comparison with 2013. These data were obtained in a survey of teachers at institutions of higher education that was carried out as part of a Monitoring of Education Markets and Organisations study conducted by HSE in collaboration with the Levada Centre in 2014, and coordinated by Centre for Statistics and Monitoring of Education at HSE ISSEK.
Vietnamese Delegation Studies Innovation Governance at HSE
The Higher School of Economics recently hosted a special programme for a delegation from Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology. Over the course of a week, top-level officials from the country learned governance practices in the fields of science, technology and innovation in a special class held by HSE ISSEK.
New Standard for Designing Innovation Development Programmes Promotes Innovation in State-Owned Companies
On July 2, the Higher School of Economics hosted a public discussion of the new methodological guidelines for designing innovation development programmes (IDPs) of state-owned companies. These were prepared by the Russian Ministry of Economic Development together with the Open Government with the participation of HSE, and approved in April, 2015 by the Presidential Council for Economic Modernisation and Innovatiion Development’s Presidium. The updated methodology increases importance of corporate innovations and — through introduction of KPIs — strengthens top managers’ motivation.
Russia — Brazil Summer School on Foresight & STI Policy
From June 15 to 19, 2015, the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK) held a joint summer school with Brazil’s Center for Strategic Studies and Management in Science, Technology and Innovation (CGEE). The aim of the summer school was to explore areas for collaboration for both countries and institutions in the field of Foresight and STI policy following an earlier memorandum of understanding signed between CGEE and HSE.
Figure of the day: +4%
was the index of business confidence in retail trade. The indicator’s value increased after six months of being in a critical zone near zero. These data are presented in a new Monitoring the Business Climate in Retail Organisations study that was conducted in the second quarter of 2015 by the Centre for Business Tendency Studies at the HSE ISSEK.
Foresight-Russia journal, no 2, 2015
In the latest issue of Foresight-Russia journal consideration is given to the long-term prospects of the market of hybrid cars and nuclear energy, development of entrepreneurship, and the factors behind people's willingness to engage in continuing education; new tools to assess the quality of research are also proposed.