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Researchers from the Higher School of Economics (HSE) have developed a novel system for assessing the potential of renewable energy resources. This method can help to assess the future exploitable technical potential of wind and solar PV energy, as well as their capacity to replace exiting generation assets. Furthermore, it can forecast fossil fuel savings and facilitate reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Their research has been published in journal Energy: “Wind and Solar PV Technical Potentials: Measurement Methodology and Assessments for Russia”.

The World Values Survey Association is organizing two thematic panels at the WAPOR Annual Conference (15-17 July 2017, Lisbon, Portugal), and invites all interested scholars to join exciting discussions on population values, norms and beliefs and their role for social and political development of contemporary societies.

Researchers from the Higher School of Economics (HSE) have developed a novel system for assessing the potential of renewable energy resources. This method can help to assess the future exploitable technical potential of wind and solar PV energy, as well as their capacity to replace exiting generation assets. Furthermore, it can forecast fossil fuel savings and facilitate reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Their research has been published in journal Energy: “Wind and Solar PV Technical Potentials: Measurement Methodology and Assessments for Russia”.

The new issue of Foresight and STI Governance presents various aspects of the corporate sector’s innovation-based development: approaches to conducting Foresight studies, market evaluation of research-intensive companies, intellectual capital’s impact on firms’ performance. International experts assess the prospects for transboundary academic cooperation in the context of global geopolitical processes, and propose an “intelligent leadership” model for state universities.

Another session of the regular Research Seminar on Diversity and Development organized by ICSID and NES Center for the Study of Diversity and Social Interactions took place on March 28, 2017. The event was held jointly with the seminar “Political Economy”.

On March 18, 2017, First HSE Research Battle took place at the Key Tech Hub. The event was organised by HSE students together with the Polytechnic Museum and the Student Initiative Support Centre. Kirill Makarov, a student of Master’s programme 'Comparative Social Research' and intern researcher from the Laboratory for Economics of Innovation, participated in the contest with a speech devoted to the issues of interaction between scientists and society in the context of developing effective measures of scientific and technical policy in the 21^st century.

HSE published a new issue of its statistical data book “Indicators of Innovation: 2017” (in Russian). HSE First Vice Rector and ISSEK Director Leonid Gokhberg comments on the current situation with innovation activities in the country as reflected in official statistics.

Topic: The Optimal Deterrence of Tax Evasion: The Trade-off Between Information Reporting and Audits
Speaker: Yulia Paramonova (HSE in St. Peterburg)
The workshop will take place at 3A Kantemirovskaya st., room 358 (3rd floor) at 16:50.