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We are glad to inform that the schedule of the autumn school "Computational Social Choice and Fair Division" is now avaliable.

This summer Alexander Sokolov, director of the HSE ISSEK Foresight Centre, took part in the International Panel of Futurists (IPF) in Morocco. The Royal Institute for Strategic Studies (IRES) invited a pool of experts to suggest long-term scenarios for the country’s development, taking into account emerging global technology and social trends and the quite strong role the traditional way of life plays in this Maghreb country.

Evgeny Kutsenko, head of HSE ISSEK Russian Cluster Observatory, presented results of a study of Russian cluster initiatives at the 56^th Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA 2016) hosted in August by the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

In 2015 Russia’s Internal R&D expenditures amounted to 914,7 billion roubles, with annual growth rate of 0,2% (in constant prices), or to 1,13% of GDP. The new issue in the “Science, Technology and Innovation” series compares internal R&D expenditures in Russia and in the leading countries of the world in 1995–2015.

One needs statistics to assess current state and possible development trends of the economy, which usually become available only after a certain lag. Possible approaches to quickly and accurately monitor the ever-changing economic situation were discussed at the CIRET conference, where the Higher School of Economics was represented by Tamara Lipkind, leading expert at HSE ISSEK Centre for Business Tendency Studies.

On 20th and 21st of September Christian Welzel will give two lectures to the students of the HSE master’s programme 'Comparative Social Research'.

Regional Conference on of World Association of Public Opinion Research dedicated to Survey Research and the Study of Social and Cultural Change is taking place at HSE Moscow September 15-17, 2016 in partnership with World Values Survey. Ronald Inglehart, Academic Supervisor of HSE Laboratory for Comparative Social Research and the Founding President of the World Values Survey (WVS) has talked to HSE News Service about the role of sociology in the modern world and the changes in values and beliefs around the world.

In early August, the XIV Open and User Innovation Conference took place at Harvard Business School. Konstantin Fursov, Head of the Unit for Analysis of R&D Performance and Research Fellow at the HSE ISSEK Laboratory for Economics of Innovation, was invited to participate in this event.

Education determines people's chances of success in life. Also it is the mechanism for the reproduction of the social stratification of the new generations. The form of the educational system in the country is related with skills distribution in society and the level of inter-generational social mobility. This is an important factor of income distribution of the population, which leads economic inequality. Therefore, the modern debates about educational inequality and policy in this area are important to reduce economic inequality.

On Wednesday, September 14 the all-Russian seminar "Mathematical methods of decision analysis in economics, finance and politics" was held. Professor Georgy Artemov from the University of Melbourne gave a lecture on «Assignment mechanisms: common preferences and information acquisition»