The paper offers a taxonomy of the technology platforms (TPs) to help assess a platform’s risk level. TPs are seen as a valuable policy instrument that assists a multi-stakeholder formulation and implementation of long-term R&D programs in specific technology areas at economy or industry...

Technology platforms are regarded as an important tool for linking disparate elements of the innovation system and shaping an integrated innovation framework. Platforms can be a part of the institutional framework for building relationships along one of the axes of the innovation system...

This article explores new innovation policy measures aimed at ongoing transformation of the space industry in Russia. The current implementation of a wide range of state programs and presidential decrees helps to maintain the leading position of Russia in the space industry and expanding...

This paper studies the integration of social and environmental objectives into strategy through performance indicators based on a sample of multinational world-leading oil- and gas producers. Also, we inquire if the companies under study, which identify certain areas as strategic objectives, do...

The shipbuilding sector’s multiple contributions to the social and economic development, as well as to science and technology, of major maritime countries mean that the sector attracts strong interest of entrepreneurs, researchers, and government agencies. Meanwhile the diverse forms of...

Foresight projects on the identification of prospective areas of S&T and innovation development in the field of new materials have become widespread in the recent decades.The Russian practice is represented by the projects of HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge, in...

In the last few years the world oil and gas industry has experienced a rapid development growing more strongly than many other industry branches. Modern oil and gas industry aims at the extraction of natural resources at an increasing scale. The growth of oil production is conditional upon...

The processes of converting and restructuring the country's defense industry that began at the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s have turned that once flourishing sector of the economy into a focal point of economic and social problems. The decline that lasted throughout the first half...

The issue of the government's role in developing the defense-industrial complex is very significant in connection with the specifics of the latter, which develops and produces armaments and military equipment. Consequently, government intervention in defense firm activities is to be expected....

The article examines the general characteristics and condition of ilmenite and rutile ore mining and titanium sponge and titanium metal production in Russia and the world in the 1990s and 2000s. A range of problems facing the domestic titanium industry is outlined. The Russian defense sector's...