Admission to the Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Master’s Programme
Innovation Development Rankings: Global and Regional
Foresight Studies and Global Technology Trends
International Cooperation in STI
Digital Economy
University Development
New ISSEK Publications
On April 26, 2002, the Higher School of Economics Academic Council established the Information Economy Institute 'to conduct research on socio-economic development in the area of information and telecommunication technologies, science and innovation, education and training, and other studies to extend HSE’s presence on the research and consulting services market'. On June 27, 2003, the Information Economy Institute was renamed the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge. In the spirit of HSE’s anti-anniversary (25 years), we’ll use this milestone as a 'high ground' from which we can take a farther look into the future.
Innovation Development Rankings: Global and Regional
On June 15, the 10th Global Innovation Index was presented at the UN’s Geneva headquarters. It is traditionally published together with an analytical report, which this year was entitled “Innovation Feeding the World”. In the chapter on Russia, ISSEK researchers Leonid Gokhberg and Ilya Kuzminov analyse the innovation-based development of the Russian agricultural sector.
On June 15, ISSEK presented the 5th issue of the Russian Regional Innovation Development Rankingat the TASS Russian News Agency. The three leading regions have maintained their positions since the previous survey year: the Republic of Tatarstan, the City of Moscow, and the City of St. Petersburg. For the first time, the researchers measured Russian regions’ readiness for the future: the Republic of Yakutia had the highest value of this indicator.
A new industrial revolution in Russia: to be or not to be? A report by the Centre for Strategic Research was presented at the expert discussion 'Technological Development: Global Trends and Russia’s Prospects' held as part of XVIII HSE April Conference. Yaroslav Kuzminov, HSE Rector, and Leonid Gokhberg, HSE First Vice Rector and ISSEK Director, commented on its main provisions.
Meeting global energy challenges. Two summits took place in Beijing (China) in June: the Eighth Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM8), and the Second Meeting Innovation Ministerial (MI-2). Liliana Proskuryakova, Leading Researcher at the HSE ISSEK Research Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies, was a member of the official Russian delegation.
The Rising Powers project is completed. The results of 12 international network research projects implemented in 2012–2017 under the auspices of 10 leading British universities were presented in Manchester (UK). The international research team comprising ISSEK experts studied emerging technologies’ impact on the development of innovation systems in China and Russia.
Alexander Sokolov, Deputy Director of ISSEK, Director of the ISSEK Foresight Centre, made a presentation on setting priorities for international S&T cooperation at the 3rd meeting of the BRICS STI Funding Working Group (May, Pretoria, South Africa).
Alexander Sokolov took part in the second meeting of the International Panel of Futurists at the Royal Institute for Strategic Studies (Morocco), and presented a plenary report at the conference 'Anticiper les Enjeux Majeur de Demain' ('Anticipating the Grand Challenges of Tomorrow') (May, the Moroccan National Library, Rabat).
Innovations go East! Initiatives on innovation-based development in the Asia-Pacific region, which were designed with participation of HSE experts, in particular to support innovation clusters and fast-growing high-tech companies, were presented by the Russian delegation at the 10th meeting of the APEC Policy Partnership on Science, Technology, and Innovation (May, Hanoi, Vietnam).
Industrial development in the CIS: Is there a potential for stepping up re-industrialisation? The UNIDO published an analytical report on industrial development in the CIS countries in 2005–2014, which was prepared by Liudmila Kitrar, a UNIDO consultant and the Deputy Director of the ISSEK Centre for Business Tendencies Studies, with the participation of her colleagues at the Centre.
Gulnara Abdrakhmanova, Director of the ISSEK Centre for Statistics and Monitoring of Information Society, and Olga Demidkina, Leading Expert at the OECD-HSE Partnership Centre, took part in the OECD’s Digital Week (May, Paris, France).
ISSEK launched a series of 'Digital Economy' information bulletins, to be published in turns with the weekly 'Science, Technology, and Innovation' reports. The authors of the first issue in the new series analysed Russians’ professional competences and user skills regarding computers, the internet, and other ICTs.
University Development
A special issue of the Foresight and STI Governance journal (2017, vol. 11, no. 2) was published and focused on the topic“Knowledge Triangle: Universities in Innovation System”. Various aspects of integrating universities’ educational, research, and innovation activities were analysed by experts from the OECD, Russia, the UK, Austria, Sweden, Iran, and Indonesia.
The state and universities should complement one another in social policy. Ways to involve universities in implementing national socio-economic policy were discussed at the international workshop 'Universities, Inclusive Development, and Social Innovation' held in the framework of the ISSEK’s special section on STI policy at the XVIII HSE April Conference.
Why do foreign students choose to study at HSE? Alena Nefedova, Junior Researcher at the ISSEK, answers this question in her paper published in the Higher Education in Russia and Beyond journal.
New Publications
'Science, Technology and Innovation Studies' Series with Springer
Foresight and STI Governance is an open access journal. Electronic versions of the issues can be downloaded at the journal's website, and via mobile applications available at the AppStore and GooglePlay.
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