At the present stage, the policy of a majority of developed states and dynamically developing countries is aimed at implementation of the innovation scenario of development through efficient utilization of the foreign economic factor. It is to be noted that the “quality” of foreign economic...

The development of advanced manufacturing technologies is to become a new trend at the intersection of research, technological and industrial policy. The United States, a few EU countries, and China are leading on the development of new measures and approaches in this field. It was not until...

The program of fundamental research which is to become a part of the State Program of the Russian Federation on Development of Science and Technologies in the 2013–2020 Period is under active development. After a change of the top management of the Ministry of Education and Science of the...

The performance assessment system for scientifi c research organizations, which is currently being developed in Russia, has become an integral part of the ongoing reform in this country’s scientific research complex The assessment principles and criteria are determined by the RF Government’s...

In Summer–Autumn, the period of structural reforms in Russian science began, that is, establishment of a new Federal Agency of Research Institutions, reforming of the system of three state academies and development of a new Russian Research Fund. The lines of the reforms are not brought in...

The conference of representatives of Russia’s academic diaspora that took place in late 2014 was second of its kind held over the past four years. It demonstrated the prominent role played by the new foreign political and economic contexts in shaping the views on the current situation and the...

Over the past 11 months of 2014, some measures designed to reform the network of scientifi c research institutes formerly subordinated to the Russian Academy of Sciences were elaborated, a number of conflict-triggering decisions were made, and several new development priorities were put forth....