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Leonid Gokhberg: “After Each Crisis, Innovation Activity Tends to Leap”

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.

Indicators of Innovation in the Russian Federation: 2017

This data book presents the results of statistical surveys characterising innovation processes in the economy of the country. It shows the dynamics of consolidated indicators, produced in accordance with modern international standards of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Eurostat, showing the level of development of technological and non-technological innovation.

Guest of ISSA Laboratory Prof. Ivo Düntsch gave a talk entitled: "Rough sets: A tool for qualitative knowledge discovery"

Ivo Düntsch, Brock University, St Catharines, ON, Canada

Why HSE?

Maria Giulia Silvagni, who holds a PhD from the University of Bologna in Italy, joined the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development as a postdoctoral Research Fellow in September 2016. She told us about her professional and personal experiences during her time in Moscow.

A mini-course "Some chapters of the theory of stochastic differential equations (SDE)" by Professor Alexander Veretennikov

From February 28 to March 9, Professor of the University of Leeds (UK) and the leading research fellow of the International Laboratory of Stochastic Analysis and Its Applications (HSE, Russia) Alexander Veretennikov delivered  a mini-course "Ergodic properties of Markov processes and the Poisson equation"

ISSEK Experts Took Part in Improving the CIS Countries’ Industrial Statistics in the Scope of the UNIDO Project

Preprint “Industrial Development in the CIS: Re-industrialisation Trends and Potential” is published at the UNIDO official website. The publication presents statistical analysis of the scale and trends of manufacturing industry development in Russia and the CIS countries, focusing on efficiency of integration processes, quality of industrial policy, and strengthening competitiveness.

Running a Comparative Empirical Programme in Social Research

Christian Fröhlich is Assistant Professor at the School of Sociology who has been at HSE since 2014. He also supervises an English-taught Master’s Programme ‘Comparative Social Research’. Christian Fröhlich has talked to HSE University bulletin, The HSE Look, about programme design, partnerships, and lessons learned from running the programme.

About ISSEK in the 5th issue of HSE University Review

A number of projects and events of the ISSEK are mentioned in the latest quarterly issue of the English-language newsletter, which is an overview of the important current events and achievements of the HSE according to the HSE Office of Public Relations and Online Media.

New Publication

An article by Thomas Remington, ICSID Leading Research Fellow, titled "Business-government cooperation in VET: a Russian experiment with dual education" was published online in “Post-Soviet Affairs” on March 3, 2017.

Mental and methodological aspects of the genesis of Russia's economic strategy in the 21st century

On March 9 Mikhailov A.G. took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report on "Mental and methodological aspects of the genesis of Russia's economic strategy in the 21st century".