Research Institutes and Centers
A.B. Soloviev Institute for State and Local Procurement Management (Director: Irina Kuznetsova)
Key areas of activity:
- Creation of organizational models of the procurement system in federal and local governmental bodies;
- Development of a concept of interaction between the federal governmental bodies and regional subdivisions during the procurement of goods supply, works and services;
- Development and implementation of the regulations for works of contracting authorities and special organizations while bidding, quotation and order placements with a sole supplier;
- Development of evaluation mechanisms (including criteria evaluation) of the effectiveness of order placement and evaluation of budget spending;
- Monitoring and analysis of the changes in law in the area of order placements.
Center for Advanced Studies (Director: Martin Gilman)
Key areas of activity:
- Attraction of international researchers for a period of 1 month to 1 year for conducting research as part of CAS projects as senior fellows;
- Invitation world-renowned researchers for conducting master classes and seminars, reading lectures for a period of a few days;
- Organization of HSE teachers' work on research projects as junior fellows;
- Attraction to CAS project work of young researchers from regional Russian universities;
- Attraction to CAS project work of final year and postgraduate HSE students as assistants, as well as academic supervision of their activities;
- Support of junior CAS fellows' participation in international academic conferences, preparation and publication of their research in leading international journals;
- Organization of joint seminars and conferences with Russian and international universities.
Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) (Academic Supervisor: Serge Karaganov)
Key areas of research:
- World around Russia: 2017
- Global governance issue and the role of government
- Relations between Russia and the United States
- The European Union and Russia-EU relations
- Global energy market
- China and Asian countries
- The Middle East and Islamic countries
Center for Fundamental Sociology (Head: Alexander Filippov)
Key projects:
- Sociology of space and theory of social events;
- Constructing a social event in producing and broadcasting of the everyday knowledge;
- Reflexive monitoring of public places: logics of the place and heterotopology of the space;
- Sociology of things: investigation of everyday artifacts;
- Research on the sociology of a modern state and evolution of its specific monopolies.
Center for Institutional Studies (Head: Yaroslav Kuzminov)
The Center consists of:
- Laboratory for Analysis and Modeling of Institutional Dynamics (LAMID)
- Laboratory for Applied Analysis of Institutions and Social Capital (LAAISC)
- Laboratory for Institutional Analysis of Economic Reforms (LIA)
- Laboratoty for Strategic Behaviour and Institutional design (LID)
- Department of Institutional Economics
Center for Labour Studies (Director: Vladimir Gimpelson)
Key areas of research:
- Non-standard employment in the transitional economy;
- Political economy of the labour market;
- Labour law and functioning of the labour market;
- Educational system and the labour market;
- Remuneration of labour: mechanisms of creation and differentiation.
Center for Study of Social Organization of a Firm (Director: Azer Efendiev)
Key areas of research:
- Systems of interaction between staff members and management;
- Problems of power and participation of various staff groups in the company management;
- Problems of development and changes in the organizational structure.
Center of Comparative Law (Director: Alexey Avtonomov)
Key areas of activity:
- Comparative legal research;
- Development of methodological materials on the use of comparative legal methods of research;
- Attraction of teachers and student of the Faculty of Law to comparative legal and country studies.
'Center of Development' Institute (Director: Natalia Akindinova)
Key areas of activity:
- Macroeconomic analysis and forecasting, research into the problems of economic growth, business cycle, financial and real economy sector's resistance to external shocks;
- Analysis of the problems of pricing and non-pricing competitive ability of Russian producers in internal and external markets, including labour productivity, specific labour costs, effectiveness of industrial factor's use;
- Analysis of effectiveness of the use of tools of monetary and credit, budgetary, tax and other economy policy measures to achieve priority goals of social and economic development;
- Research of innovative factors of Russian economy development and influence of research and innovations on economic growth;
- Research of interrelations between the institutional, social and macroeconomic indicators of the development of Russia and implementation of a complex analysis of effectiveness of the Government's activities.
Center of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (Director: Georgiy Safonov)
Key areas of activity:
- Scientific and applied research in the area of environmental economics and the use of natural resources;
- Development of courses on the basics of natural resources management, organization of educational programmes and training on topical problems of environmental management.
Center of Project Studies (Head: Oleg Kabanov)
Key areas of activity:
- Creation and pilot launch of research and projects in new areas for the HSE;
- Coordination of activities and organization of interaction between the HSE research departments during the implementation of complex R&D;
- Organization of complex infrastructural project implementation;
- Organization of joint R&D together with leading Russian universities and companies;
- Creation of integrated databases as the basis for analysis for off-budget resourcing for R&D at the HSE.
Center of Synergetic Anthropology (Head: Oleg Genisaretskiy)
Key areas of research:
- The problem of anthropological evolution;
- Synergetic Anthropology as an episteme;
- Critical retrospective of the European human knowledge;
- Constitution of basic Zen structures and related Buddhist practices.
Centre for Studies of Civil Society and Non-Profit Sector (Academic Supervisor: Lev Yakobson. Director: Irina Mersiyanova)
Mission: support of civil society and non-profit sector development through research, expertise, education, elaboration of suggestions and practical recommendations.
Expert Institute (Academic Supervisor: Evgeniy Yasin)
Key areas of academic activity:
- Research of industrial markets;
- Research into the problems of inflation and economic growth;
- Socio-psychological research;
- Analysis of structural changes in the economy.
Foresight Center
Key areas of activity:
- Application, development and improvement of Foresight methodology in Russia.
Institute of Information Technologies (Director: Alexey Golosov)
The Institute carries out research and applied development in business informatics, information technologies in management and standards.
Institute for Industrial and Market Studies (Director: Andrey Yakovlev)
Key areas of research:
- Organizational development;
- Analysis of industrial markets;
- Industrial surveys;
- Financial market analysis;
- Monitoring of enterprise behaviour.
Institute for International Business (Director: Natalia Karpova)
Key areas of research:
- Internationalization of Russian companies: development strategies in the new era of global competition;
- International companies' activity in Russia: analysis of the situation and business development prospects;
- Ways and types of coordination between the interests of international business and the state, development of interaction institutions;
- Responsible leadership in private and public sectors of the economy;
- Ways to strengthen Russia's international reputation;
- Modern business development technologies: international research and industrial clusters;
- Systems of human capital development in international companies: corporate education, coaching, business culture.
Institute for Public Administration and Municipal Management (Director: Andrey Klimenko)
Key areas of research:
- Monitoring of administrative reform;
- Management by results;
- Standardization and regulation;
- Optimization of functions and anti-corruption activities;
- Increasing effectiveness of the interaction between executive bodies and society;
- Modernization of the information supply system in executive bodies;
- Reforming of the civil service.
Institute for Educational Studies (Director: Irina Abankina. Academic Supervisor: Isak Froumin)
Key tasks:
- Reforming of the contents and structure of the educational process;
- Building of new and improvement of existing organizational and economic mechanisms in education;
- Modernization of the legal basis of functioning and development of the education system.
Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities (Director: Irina Savelieva)
Key areas of research:
- Historical and Theoretical research which is oriented to the study of the history of ideas and symbolic systems in European culture, analysis of the key categories of social and human knowledge, its historical, culturological, social and anthropological bases and mechanisms of formation;
- Research of contemporary culture which include general theoretical analysis as well as investigation of specific cultural practices, such as literature, theatre, cinema, television, photography etc.;
- Research into theoretical sociology.
Institute of Demography (Director: Analtoliy Vishnevskiy)
Key areas of research:
- Study of changes in the size, gender, age and ethnic structure of the population;
- Study of demographic problems of the family and birth rate;
- Study of death rate and life expectancy rate;
- Study of internal and international migration of the population.
Institute of Health Care Economics (Director: Larisa Popovich)
Key areas of activity:
- Expert analytical activities: evaluation of the socio-economic effectiveness of technological and organizational innovations in health care; methodological and technological support for appropriate innovative projects (particularly, pilot projects on medical insurance and insurance of the doctors’ professional responsibility; on the transfer of medical institutions to new organizational and legal forms; on the creation of new forms of self-regulating organizations in health care; on the development and creation of public private partnership models etc.)
- Research activities: projects on the study of institutional mechanisms for health care modernization in Russia; monitoring of economic processes in health care.
- Educational activities: development of various forms of education related to the development of innovative projects in health care.
Institute of Innovation Management (Director: Mikhail Rychev)
Key tasks:
- Research into innovation management;
- Expertise of innovative projects and programmes;
- Organization of education in innovative management.
Institute of Legal Regulation (Director: Anna Gutnikova)
Key areas of activity:
- Research activities in the area of law;
- Legal expertise in civil, tax and labour law as well as laws on science and education.
Institute of Legal Research (Director: Yuriy Tikhomirov)
Key areas of research:
- Problems of law effectiveness, problems of law application;
- Legal monitoring;
- Legal support of economic activities; law and economy;
- Legal means to provide market conditions in the economy; correlation between private and public interests in legal regulation of economic processes;
- Intellectual property law;
- Legal status of commercial and non-commercial organizations etc.
Institute of Macroeconomic Research and Forecasting (Director: Evgeniy Gavrilenkov)
Key areas of activity:
- Macroeconomic analysis and forecasting of Russian economic development;
- Research of interrelations between the financial and the real sectors of the economy;
- Development of macroeconomic models of analysis and development forecasts for specific branches and sectors of the Russian economy;
- Research of the industrial, financial, innovational and investment potential of the Russian economy's real sector;
- Development of recommendations on the government's measures on the economic development of economic sectors;
- Analysis of entrepreneurial activities;
- Development of recommendations on the building of entrepreneurial activitiy.
Institute of Natural Resource Management and Environmental Policy (Director: Mikhail Kozeltsev)
Key areas of activity:
- Fundamental and applied scientific research, expertise and advisory services;
- Development of suggestions and recommendations for the improvement of public policy, participation in the preparation of information, analytical materials and expert work for governmental bodies on the basis of research results;
- Strategic environmental evaluation of key law projects and documents of the RF system of strategic planning;
- Development of practical recommendations to improve the level of policy harmonization in natural resource management and environmental protection during the development of economic policies, measures of budgetary, taxation, monetary, credit, innovative, investment, customs, foreign economic and other forms and instruments of economic policy, etc.
Institute of Public Resource Management (Director: Boris Rudnik)
The key tasks of the Institute are academic research and expert-analytical work aimed at improving the effectiveness of public (municipal) participation in goods production and service delivery as well as improving the effectiveness of public financial policy.
Institute for Social Development Studies (Director: Tatiana Chetvernina)
Key areas of research:
- Interdisciplinary research - economic, sociological and legal research of social processes in Russia and its regions as well as the CIS countries;
- Gender research, primarily in the area of labour and employment;
- Analysis and expertise of social projects and HR management systems in Russian enterprises;
- Educational and consulting programmes for corporate management, regional and local administrations, NGOs, trade unions and others.
Institute of Pricing and Regulation of Natural Monopolies (Director: Ilya Dolmatov)
Key areas of activity:
- Methodical support of governmental regulation of power and gas industries;
- Analysis of economic justification of prices for production and transfer of electric and thermal energy;
- Expertise of disagreements in the area of governmental regulation of prices between RF executive bodies and organizations carrying out the regulated activities;
- Analysis of economic justification of wholesale prices for gas;
- Analysis of effectiveness and evaluation of pricing consequences of investment projects in electric energy industry and gas complex (including the projects of gasification of RF regions);
- Research in the area of pricing for services of railroad and water transport.
Institute of Social Policy and Socio-Economic Programmes (Director: Sergey Smirnov)
Key areas of research:
- Implementation of the methods of analysis of federal special-purpose programmes effectiveness;
- Improvement of the methodology for forecasting the services market;
- Conceptual approaches to the development of a new legal system regulating the relations in the areas of employment and social support of the unemployed.
Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (Director: Leonid Gokhberg)
Key areas of activity:
- Monitoring and analysis of trends in science, technology and innovations, development of recommendations for R&D and innovative policies;
- Long-term forecasting and definition of strategic development goals;
- Research on the goals and results of the activities of the budget planning subjects;
- Development of state statistics;
- Monitoring and statistics of education;
- Monitoring and statistics of information and telecommunication technologies.
Institute of Trade Policy (Director: Alexander Daniltsev)
Key areas of activity:
- Organization, coordination and implementation of interdisciplinary applied research in trade policy and related areas of economic policy;
- Creation of a system of monitoring and primary collection and analysis of information in the area of trade policies and international economic relations;
- Creation of an information center on this scientific topic, including a specialized library on the problems of trade policy.
International Organizations Research Institute (Director: Marina Larionova)
Key areas of activity:
- Analysis of trends and priorities of cooperation as part of international organizations; analysis of the role of international institutions in the joint regulation of key processes of international politics, in the area of global social and humanitarian problems, in the development of integration processes; analysis of the influence on international organizations on the policies of member countries;
- Analysis of the experience and prospects of Russian participation in the activities of international organizations and the development of practical recommendations on the extension of Russian international cooperation according to national interests and priorities;
- Analysis of the experience of implementing international programmes and projects, primarily in the area of integration processes management, development of education and science, international comparative research; broad informing of the Russian academic community on their results;
- Informational and analytical support of the Ministry of Education and Science, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and other ministries and bodies of the Russian Federation, as well as HSE partner organizations in the area of cooperation with international organizations;
- Informational and analytical support of the participation of Russian official representatives in international organizations' events, by request;
- Selection of the most relevant materials about Russia by international organizations , legal and marketing analysis of the potential of their translation and distribution, translation and publication of the selected materials;
- Translation and distribution of analytic information and scientific publications received from the OECD and other international organizations.
UNESCO Department on Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Rights at the Higher School of Economics (Director: Mikhail Fedotov)
UNESCO Department on Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Rights at the Higher School of Economics is a section in the global chain of interuniversity cooperation.
Key areas of research:
- Intellectual property;
- Information law;
- Legal regulation of Internet activities;
Building a respectful attitude to intellectual property rights in Russian society , the right to information, freedom of expression etc.
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