25-29 June 2012 a short course “Foresight: Exploring the Future, Shaping the Present” took place at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR, University of Manchester, Manchester, Great Britain). The agenda of this training was devoted to exploring frameworks and methodology of Foresight.
The seminar of ILSCR took place on 21st June. The theme was “Male reproductive success in small-scale societies (Hadza and Datoga of Tanzania)”, the lecturer was Marina Butovskaya, world-wide renowned Russian anthropologist, doctor of history sciences, head of the Center for evolutionary anthropology of the Institute of ethnology and anthropology RAS.
On June 20, 2012 the Research Laboratory of Science and Technology Studies, HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK), organized an open lecture by Professor XUE Lan «Globalization of Science and Innovation – the Chinese Response»
Speaker: V.R. Evstigneev (HSE) Title: "Probabilistic picture of the world: how the intuitive perception of price process in the foreign exchange market is born and evolves"
The second summer school of the International Laboratory for Socio-Cultural Research “Designing research and writing papers on culture and behavior: an intensive training seminar” took place in Moscow oblast on 15-20 June.
Natalia Soboleva presented her report «Value orientations in business community as a modernization factor in modern Russia» on the LSCR`s seminar in 14th of June.
An international workshop «Linkages between Actors in the Innovation System» took place on the 13-15th of June 2012. Eminent researchers and leading experts in innovation studies from the UK, Norway and Sweden joined their colleagues from the HSE to discuss the recent developments in the field of science, technology and innovation.
