On October 19–20, 2016, the Higher School of Economics will host the 6th International Academic Conference “Foresight and STI Policy”. The conference is organised annually by the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK) which includes the International Research and Educational Foresight Centre, a Regional UNIDO centre for technology foresight in Russia and the CIS. Conference participants will discuss a wide range of issues related to S&T foresight, developing of STI policies, methods of analysis of the current state of science and technology, new approaches and instruments for managing this field, as well as the practice of their application.
STI policy news
Countries which cooperate in the field of water resources, generally do not have reasons for a conflict. This is one of the messages of the International Scientific and Practical Conference “BRICS Water Forum”, which was held on September 29-30 at the Higher School of Economics at the initiative of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. The participants discussed issues of international cooperation, integrated and more efficient management of the water resources using the instruments of evidence-based policy. The final resolution of the Forum and other details can be found here.
How does one collect and analyse Big Data to gain a greater knowledge and understanding of S&T development trends? Are blockchains able to help us to more accurately measure the results of a researcher’s work? Will citizens keep up with the latest S&T trends and foresights in the future as they keep up with the weather forecast now? Blue Sky Forum on Science and Innovation Indicators held every ten years by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development took place at the University of Ghent (Belgium) on September 19–21. The work of the Forum, one of the main discussion areas for researchers from around the world, dealing with statistics on STI, was followed by a seminar on the revision of the Oslo Manual. Higher School of Economics was represented by a delegation headed by Leonid Gokhberg, First Vice-Rector at HSE, Director of HSE ISSEK.
Russia is 43rd in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2016, up five positions from its 2015 ranking. Just as last year, Switzerland, Sweden, U.K., U.S. and Finland remain the top-ranking countries in the GII. These are the findings from the GII 2016 report comparing the performance of national innovation systems in 128 economies announced during a press conference at the UN Headquarters (August 15, Geneva, Switzerland). The Global Innovation Index 2016 was co-published by Cornell University (U.S.), INSEAD Business School (France), the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). In 2016, two HSE ISSEK researchers, Leonid Gokhberg, HSE First Vice-Rector, and Vitaliy Roud, ISSEK Research Fellow, contributed to the GII report. At the presentation of the ranking, project leaders noted the role of the HSE researchers in developing its methodological tools.
In early August, the XIV Open and User Innovation Conference took place at Harvard Business School. Konstantin Fursov, Head of the Unit for Analysis of R&D Performance and Research Fellow at the HSE ISSEK Laboratory for Economics of Innovation, was invited to participate in this event. He drew up a ‘portrait’ of Russian ‘household innovators’ also known as ‘wheel inventors’, Left-handed and others.
How do young people see the future of Russia in general, its science and their own? (news in Russian) The HSE ISSEK Foresight Centre launched the project "National Youth Foresight" to study the scientific and innovation capacity of Russian youth and in order to involve them in the process of shaping the future. The project will be implemented in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Skolkovo Open University, Global Energy Prize and other organisations.
HSE experts estimated a federal policy’s impact on Russian cluster initiatives. Evgeny Kutsenko, Head of the HSE ISSEK Russian Cluster Observatory, presented the results of a study on Russian cluster initiatives at the 56th Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA 2016) hosted in August by the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
How should scientists communicate their results to the general public? Should they be responsible for their consequences? How does one raise the level of the entire population’s scientific literacy? Such questions are the reason for a meeting between three Nobel laureates, more than 500 scientists from all over the world, journalists and editors of academic journals, publishers and representatives of scientific funds at the 1st Conference on Social impact of Science (July 24–29, University of Barcelona, Spain). Research Assistant at the HSE ISSEK Laboratory for Economics of Innovation Alena Nefedova presented a report on how the dialogue between society, innovators and producers of products and services is developing within the framework of user innovations.
Christofilopoulos E., Mantzanakis S. (2016) China 2025: Research & Innovation Landscape. Foresight and STI Governance, vol. 10, no 3, pp. 7–16. DOI: 10.17323/1995-459X.2016.3.7.16
Rodriguez M., Paredes F., Yi G. (2016) Towards Future Customer Experience: Trends and Innovation in Retail. Foresight and STI Governance, vol. 10, no 3, pp. 18–28. DOI: 10.17323/1995-459X.2016.3.18.28
Leonard C. (2016) Spatial Development and Innovation in Russia. Foresight and STI Governance, vol. 10, no 3, pp. 30–33. DOI: 10.17323/1995-459X.2016.3.30.33
Zemtsov S., Barinova V., Pankratov A., Kutsenko E. (2016) Potential High-Tech Сlusters in Russian Regions: From Current Policy to New Growth Areas. Foresight and STI Governance, vol. 10, no 3, pp. 34–52. DOI: 10.17323/1995-459X.2016.3.34.52
Zamyatina N., Pilyasov A. (2016) Single-Industry Towns of Russia: Lock-In and Drivers of Innovative Search. Foresight and STI Governance, vol. 10, no 3, pp. 53–64. DOI: 10.17323/1995-459X.2016.3.53.64
Boykova M., Ilina I., Salazkin M. (2016) The Smart City Approach as a Response to Emerging Challenges for Urban Development. Foresight and STI Governance, vol. 10, no 3, pp. 65–75. DOI: 10.17323/1995-459X.2016.3.65.75
Makarov V., Ayvazyan S., Afanasyev M., Bakhtizin A., Nanavyan A. (2016) Modeling the Development of Regional Economy and an Innovation Space Efficiency. Foresight and STI Governance, vol. 10, no 3, pp. 76–90. DOI: 10.17323/1995-459X.2016.3.76.90
Industry in July and August, 2016 Retail in 2Q 2016 Wholesale in 2Q 2016 Construction in 3Q 2016 Economic Sentiment Index (HSE Index) in 2Q 2016
Figures of the day (in Russian)
54.3 hours is the length of a professors’ weekly work hours 23% of professors at Russian universities would like to change their place of employment 51% of students combine their studies with work 65% of families believe that it is important to give children a college education and are ready for higher costs 90% of families are satisfied with the quality of education that their child receives 38% of Russian adults are learning for fun 24% of Russians aged 25-64 years continuously study 30% of managers evaluated the qualifications of personnel as below what was required 63% of employers educate their staff 9.6% of Russians consider themselves inventors 90% of Russian companies do not consider innovation activities a priority 1.7 billion dollars at current prices is the volume of technology exports from Russia in 2015 Russia took 35rd place in the UN E-Government Development Index 2016 146 applicants submitted in 2016 for HSE ISSEK English-language master's program “Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation”
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