The year 2017 is rich in anniversaries. 25 years: in September Higher School of Economics (HSE) turns 25. 15 years: in April HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK) celebrates its 15th anniversary. 10 years: the academic journal Foresight and STI Governance has been published by HSE ISSEK for 10 years. We expect a lot of events and discoveries to happen, and we’ll share them with you.
Master’s Programme ‘Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation’ news
On April 19, 2017 HSE ISSEK holds an Open Doors Day for the Master's Programme ‘Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation'. Future applicants will be able to meet with the leaders, teachers, graduates and students of the programme. Professionals, experts, and policy-makers will outline some of the possible career paths for alumni. Dirk Meissner, Professor at HSE ISSEK and the Academic Supervisor of the Master’s Programme, has talked with HSE English-language newsletter The HSE Look about the programme's development and achievements.
HSE researchers offer a novel method for calculating the benefits of renewable energy. This method can help policy-makers to assess the future potential of wind and solar PV energy, as well as their capacity to replace existing generation assets. The research based paper “Wind and Solar PV Technical Potentials: Measurement Methodology and Assessments for Russia” has been published in the journal Energy.
Sociology development scenarios until 2030. The HSE ISSEK Foresight Centre had prepared an analytics for the Foresight session “Russian research industry 2030” which took place at the Russian Public Opinion Research Centre (VCIOM). The participants built three scenarios of development of sociological studies for the next five years and the subsequent period. The results were presented at the VII Sociology Grushin Conference, whose motto this year was “Towards the Future. Forecasting in Social Studies”.
Cluster policy tools were applied in the Russian agricultural sector. The first agro-industrial cluster is currently being set up in the Yaroslavl Region. Mechanisms for providing public support for the cluster were discussed at the Yaroslavl regional government at the meeting with participation of HSE ISSEK experts Mikhail Goland and Vasily Abashkin.
Science diplomacy is gaining “soft power”. Professor Pierre-Bruno Ruffini of the University of Le Havre (France) delivered a public lecture to the students of the Master’s Programme “Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation” about “science diplomacy”, which is becoming an important element of countries’ strategies and the main “soft power” tool in their competing for people’s “hearts and minds”.
“Who is going to supervise policy-making machines?” Andrea Di Maio, a Managing Vice President in Gartner Research, visited HSE ISSEK and described technology and social trends supporting the shift from eGovernment to Digital Government.
Alena Nefedova, a Junior Research Fellow at the HSE ISSEK Laboratory for Economics of Innovation, presented the study of the export potential of Russian education at the research seminar hosted by the Centre for Global Higher Education at the UCL Institute of Education (UK). The deliverables were cited by the Times Higher Education in "Russia targets soft power, not money, from international students".
On March 18, 2017, HSE hosted its first Science Battle. The event was organised by HSE students jointly with the Polytechnic Museum and the Student Initiative Support Centre. Kirill Makarov from the HSE ISSEK Laboratory for Economics of Innovation gave a presentation on science – society relations.
Since 2017, Foresight and STI Governance became an open-access journal. Electronic versions of the issues can be downloaded at the journal's website, online libraries (e-Library and Kiberleninka), and via mobile applications available at AppStore and GooglePlay.
Future Technology Atlas The publication (in Russian) also presents the results of the project "Global Technology Trends Monitoring". The book is available for sale.
HSE ISSEK experts contributed to the Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology. Gulnara Abdrakhmanova, Leonid Gokhberg, and Alexander Sokolov prepared a chapter “Indicators of Information and Communication Technology” for the 10-volume set of the Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology (edited by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Information Resources Management Association, USA).
Its 4th Edition will be released in July, 2017 and it is available for pre-order.
The 11th issue of Higher Education in Russia and Beyond (HERB), a journal striving to bring current Russian, Central Asian and Eastern European educational trends to the global academic community’s attention, is now available. The central topic of the issue is ‘National Academic Journals: between Survival and Prosperity’.
Leonid Gokhberg, HSE First Vice-Rector, HSE ISSEK Director, Editor-in-chief of Foresight and STI Governance academic journal, described its publishing strategy.
HSE ISSEK projects and events were mentioned in the latest quarterly issue of the HSE University Review. The issue provides an overview of important current events hosted, and major results achieved by the HSE University, and includes a summary of the BRICS Water Forum organised by HSE ISSEK, a review of research on Russian users-innovators, and a project “Russia 2030: Science and Technology Foresight” implemented by HSE ISSEK with participation of more than two thousand of Russian and international experts.
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