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"No!" – this was the answer to the question "Will Russia become one of the leading countries in high tech manufacturing?" voiced in the debate in Technopolis "Moscow" on October 1. The negative answer was chosen by more than 70% of the voters. The results of the discussion could have been different if the questions had been more specific (such as whether Russia can take leading positions in high tech in 2020 or in certain sectors that could act drivers of innovative development of the country), Director of the ISSEK Foresight Centre Alexander Sokolov said.

In October 2013 HSE launched the first stage of the evaluation of the publication activity of scientific personnel (further “Evaluation”). One of the three conditions for a successful attestation is to issue a working paper (WP) of the HSE Basic Research Program (HSE BRP). In October “Science, Technology and Innovation” series of working papers launched by ISSEK hit the first place in number of WP downloads in SSRN among all HSE BRP WP series.

Foresight may absorb social construction in addition to the forecast of future global challenges, development trends and technology areas. ISSEK Foresight Centre experts Vladimir Mesropyan and Elena Gutaruk analysed how this new dimension can enrich the practice of developing measures of S&T policy during their visit September 9—20, 2013 to the Summer School at International Foresight Academy and the internship program at the Austrian Institute of Technology.

The Fourth European Summer School for Scientometrics (esss 2013) opened its doors to ISSEK researchers Konstantin Fursov and Yulia Markova in September 8—13, 2013 at the Humboldt University of Berlin. The esss 2013 started with a Tutorial day, where the participants got acquainted with the basics of using web-instruments of bibliometric analysis provided by two major players in the field — Web of Science and Scopus.

The recent publication of Leonid Gokhberg and Dirk Meissner for the Nature journal is noted in the "Delegate's podium" section of the new newsletter sent out by OECD Working Party on Innovation and Technology Policy (TIP). The authors of the publication represent Russia in two OECD expert groups: Dirk Meissner is a member of TIP, Leonid Gokhberg takes part in the work of the group of National Experts on Science and Technology Indicators (NESTI), and he is also a member of its advisory board.

The September issue opens with the news on inclusion of Foresight-Russia in the international database Scopus. Other topics are the results of the Russian Long-Term S&T Foresight 2030 for ICT, the evaluation of performance in science and higher education, and the conceptual frameworks and influence of foresight studies.

In the article the scientists compare accounts on the trajectory of innovation in Russia and the USA.

23—25 September 2013 in Gdansk (Poland), the experts of the OECD programme "Indicators of Education Systems" met to refine methodologies, regulations and indicators which serve as a basis for the assessment of the social and economic impact of education on the labour market, given in the annual OECD report "Education at a Glance". Natalia Kovaleva, director of the ISSEK Centre for Statistics and Monitoring of Education represented Russia in the meeting.