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...

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...

In the wake of the global crisis the issue of innovation development is mentioned more of-ten than in previous years, despite the fact that "innovation" context has greatly contrasted with the actual results of the formation of the national innovation economy. The principal difference last year...

The past year was marked by the alteration of former trends and priorities following the change of the President and the Government. State policies for supporting science came to the fore while the encouragement of innovative activities and technological development lost in the frequency of its...