“Innovation: Superpowered invention” by Leonid Gokhberg and Dirk Meissner published in Nature
In the article the scientists compare accounts on the trajectory of innovation in Russia and the USA.
Taking glances at education — from different angles
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.
UNIDO has published the Competitive Industrial Performance Report, presented at HSE last week
On September 18 at Higher School of Economics, UNIDO's Competitive Industrial Performance (CIP) Report 2012/2013: The Industrial Competitiveness of Nations: Looking Back, Forging Ahead was presented. The HSE Institute of Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge organised the event. The full text report is available on the UNIDO website.
View from space on the changing world
The focus of the discussion and the very agenda of the annual conference of the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI), held this year on September 11—12 in Vienna (Austria), was determined by the name of the publication, which is being prepared for print, — the ESPI yearbook “Space in the Changing World”. The representative of the HSE ISSEK Foresight Centre Oleg Karasev delivered a report on the policy instruments that regulate the development of space activities in Russia.
“EU-Russia Year of Science 2014” will commence in late November 2013
The launch of the Year of Science will be celebrated with a series of events from 25 to 27 November 2013 in Moscow, including a Conference on Prospects of Future EU-Russian Science, Technology and Innovation Cooperation, and the start of the ERA.Net RUS Plus initiative.
Foresight Training in Manchester
In the middle of the summer, two events, landmark to Foresight experts, took place in Manchester (UK): RADMA R&D management conference, and the annual Foresight training which is considered a “must” and a “quality mark” by all practitioners in the field. The week-long course programme largely consisted of lectures delivered by staff members of the International Research and Educational Foresight Centre, or by its long-standing partners.
Interaction between Science and the Real Economy Sector
On July 18 and 19, 2013, an international workshop on ‘Public Research and Industry-Science Links’ took place at the HSE. The event has been organized by the Research Laboratory for Economics of Innovation of the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK).
Russia’s Integration in Global Economic Institutions: Accession to the OECD
As part of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, which took place on June 20-22, 2013, a briefing ‘The Potential for Russia’s Accession to the OECD’ was held in which HSE Rector Yaroslav Kuzminov participated.
Mario Cervantes’s lectures on Smart Specialisation and Open Science
Mario Cervantes, Senior economist, Head of Country Study and Outlook Division, Directorate of Science and Technology Policy, OECD, lectured 9 and 12 July 2013 at Higher School of Economics at the invitation of ISSEK International Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies.
Information Bulletin “Strategies of the Heads of Professional Education Institutions”, 2013, no 3 (66)
A new issue of the Monitoring of Education Markets and Organisations (MEMO) information brochures series presents a statistical survey of the heads of professional education institutions. The purpose of the surveys is to define the degree of compliance of the heads’ strategies with the interests of the state and realities of the progress of society.