The book is devoted to analysis and systematization of major instruments and priorities of financing research and development from the federal budget in Russia, in comparative context with foreign experience. Such mechanisms are analyzed as block financing, program financing, and support through...

This work is aimed at revealing possibilities and conditions which will help taking into consideration in Russia's scientific and innovation policy of new circumstances related to development and widenning of horizontal relations between state, science and business and with changing role of each...

The paper evaluates competition in Russian banking sector with the use of methodology of the sectoral markets theory. Basing on the existing methods of analysis of competition, the authors suggest a model for an empirical research, which takes into account of such operational particularities of...

This paper summarizes the results of an empirical study, conducted in order to compile a list of the leading economists currently working in Russia. It determines the names of those who may be called the leading Russian economists. The work was based on a combined approach, including counting...

There are two instruments of innovation policy considered in this paper - technology platforms and innovation clusters. It is reviewed, to what extent the Western models of such instruments formation are adapted to the Russian environment. International experience testifies that these...

The book is devoted to the analysis of foreign organizations and foundations that supported science in Russia during post Soviet period. The analysis is based on data about programs and interviews with leaders of nineteen foreign organizations. In the center of the analysis there are major goals...