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The Russian Ministry of Economic Development Commission has reviewed Russian regions’ applications for investments in innovative territorial clusters’ projects at the meeting held on 18 August in the town of Troitsk near Moscow. HSE ISSEK experts Mikhail Goland, head of the Centre for Cooperation with Public Authorities, Development Institutes and Companies, and Evgeny Kutsenko, head of the Russian Cluster Observatory, took part in the meeting.
The Higher School of Economics, the RF Ministry of Economic Development, and the Russian Venture Company prepared an analytical report summarising the results of state-owned companies’ innovative development programmes (IDPs) in 2011–2013 and their future priorities, and describing innovation management mechanisms applied by these companies and leading international firms. Data sources included companies’ IDPs, reports, annual monitoring results, and a survey of state-owned companies’ management conducted by HSE ISSEK in 2014. According to most of the respondents, the government actions have already positively affected their companies, and by 2020, the effect will become even more pronounced.
On August 8-14 the 29th International Conference of Agricultural Economics took place in Rome, Italy.
The article ‘Institutional Frameworks to Support Regulatory Reform in Middle-income Economies: Lessons from Russia's Recent Experience’ by Andrei Yakovlev, Director of the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development was published in the journal ‘Post-Communist Economies’.
On August 7-11 the 75th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management was held in Vancouver. Over 9500 participants from 90 countries took part in the event.
of full-time students at Russian universities in 2014 had intentions of studying abroad. A year earlier, the figure was 20%. These data were obtained in a survey of students at institutions of higher education that was carried out as part of a Monitoring of Education Markets and Organisations study conducted by HSE in collaboration with the Levada Centre in 2014.
IX World Congress of ICCEES (International Council for Central and East European Studies) was held in Makuhari, Japan, on August 3-8, 2015. The event was supported by the Japan Council for Russian and East European Studies.
As the 5th LCSR Summer School on “Introduction to Factorial Design and Data Visualisation with R” came to a close on August 3, participants commented on their experience and shared their impressions. The invited lecturers, LCSR`s associate researches and students of the Master Program in Comparative Social Research provided their opinions about the event.
of professional and vocational schools in Russia are currently not enrolling students for professional education programmes due to a lack of demand. These data were obtained in a survey of heads of institutions of professional education that was carried out as part of a Monitoring of Education Markets and Organisations study conducted by HSE in collaboration with the Levada Centre in 2014.