At present, there is a discussion under way that centers around the ways of reorganizing the system for training highly qualified personnel, including the dissertation defense procedure. These issues have become the focus of increased attention as a result of recently revealed dissertation fraud...

The article is dedicated to the analysis of cost factors, primarily tax burden, that can explain the observable price difference on Russian market between domestic telecommunication equipment and imports from China and USA. The relevance of the research is justified by critical significance of...

At the government level, an objective was set to secure a place for a few Russian universities in the world’s best top list by 2020 by means of increasing considerably their budget financing. International experience points to importance of a combination of a few key factors for a university...

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 scientific sphere saw continuation of the measures initiated between 2009 and 2010. The Russian research complex displayed certain positive shifts, though they fell short of being of magnitude sufficient to be mirrored by statistics. There also were alarm bells: specifically, against the...

Last year, the subject of innovation development formed one of the top public policy priorities. That manifested itself in the rise of new initiatives on support of university research, development of interaction between science and business, and encouragement of the latter's innovation...

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 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...

The performance assessment system for scientific 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...