ISSEK and NISTEP: moving towards each other
ISSEK executives Leonid Gokhberg and Alexander Sokolov took part in the 5th International Conference on foresight: Foresight Activities for Solving Societal Issues, which took place in mid-February in Tokyo. Memorandum on cooperation was signed with the conference’s host, the Japanese National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) — a prominent global Foresight centre.
S&T Foresight: the Challenge of Exploring New Horizons
On the 30th of January 2014, HSE hosted international workshop on impact assessment of Foresight exercises in the EU and Russia, which was organised by HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK).
Science and Technology. Innovation. Information Society: Pocket Data Book
The pocket data book "Science and Technology. Innovation. Information Society" is coming soon. The data book contains main indicators characterizing S&T and innovation potential of the Russian Federation, R&D output, and main Information Society indices.
Innovators Are Invited to Come Together in Project Consortia
On 29 January the NRU HSE’s ISSEK hosted a round table “Implementing State-Owned Companies’ innovation development programmes — preliminary results and best practices”, to discuss new interaction formats adopted by participants of the Russian innovation system.
Russia’s 18th Place in Bloomberg Innovation Index: Cause for Celebration or Reflection?
Bloomberg agency published a global innovation index where Russia was given the 18th place. Can it be reliably used in research, and why national ratings should be supplemented with regional ones, reflects Evgeny Kutsenko , senior researcher at the ISSEK
HSE Pioneers Master's Education in Science, Technology and Innovation
The HSE is launching a new Master's Programme ‘Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation’ . We spoke to the head of the programme Dirk Meissner, Deputy Head of the Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies at HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge about this opportunity.
OECD Suggests Recipe for Russian Economic Growth
According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), sustainable growth of the Russian economy would be hardly possible without structural reforms. The “Russian Federation 2013” survey prepared by the OECD experts was presented on 17 January, 2014 at the NRU HSE during the seminar hosted by the OECD-HSE Partnership Centre.
Government Leaders Discussed the Russia's S&T Foresight 2030
January 20, 2014 Dmitry Medvedev discussed with Deputy Prime Ministers how to achieve the goals set in the Russia's Science and Technology Foresight 2030.
Government Approves Russia's Science and Technology Foresight 2030
A foresight document, developed by the Ministry of Education and Science with the HSE ISSEK experts’ participation, defines the key science and technology (S&T) areas Russia needs to develop in order to boost the competitiveness of its economy.
Foresight-Russia, no 4, 2013
This introduces a new issue of "Foresight-Russia". It is not intended as a special issue, but its articles are linked by two reference topics: "Human capital in the knowledge-based economy" and "Embedding Foresight in decision-making".