The 4th Annual Conference of the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID) ‘Institutions, Elites and Collective Action in the Developing World’ took place at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow on June 30-July 1, 2015. It was preceded by an EACES-HSE Workshop ‘Political Economy of Development: New Challenges and Perspectives’ on June 29, 2015. Several international researchers have spoken to HSE News Service about the conference and their research projects.
On July 2, the Higher School of Economics hosted a public discussion of the new methodological guidelines for designing innovation development programmes (IDPs) of state-owned companies. These were prepared by the Russian Ministry of Economic Development together with the Open Government with the participation of HSE, and approved in April, 2015 by the Presidential Council for Economic Modernisation and Innovatiion Development’s Presidium. The updated methodology increases importance of corporate innovations and — through introduction of KPIs — strengthens top managers’ motivation.
As the LCSR Summer School "Introduction to Factorial Design and Data Visualisation with R” will be held in a month, the organizers prepared an announcement for the participants, especially for the listeners of the course "Data vizualization in R".
New article written by Veronica Kostenko (LCSR Research Fellow) together with Eduard Ponarin and Pavel Kuzmuchev titled "Attitudes towards gender equality and perception of democracy in the Arab world" was published in "Democratization".
From June 15 to 19, 2015, the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK) held a joint summer school with Brazil’s Center for Strategic Studies and Management in Science, Technology and Innovation (CGEE). The aim of the summer school was to explore areas for collaboration for both countries and institutions in the field of Foresight and STI policy following an earlier memorandum of understanding signed between CGEE and HSE.
was the index of business confidence in retail trade. The indicator’s value increased after six months of being in a critical zone near zero. These data are presented in a new Monitoring the Business Climate in Retail Organisations study that was conducted in the second quarter of 2015 by the Centre for Business Tendency Studies at the HSE ISSEK.
From June 15 to 19, 2015, the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK) held a joint summer school with Brazil’s Center for Strategic Studies and Management in Science, Technology and Innovation (CGEE). The aim of the summer school was to explore areas for collaboration for both countries and institutions in the field of Foresight and STI policy following an earlier memorandum of understanding signed between CGEE and HSE.
The review article by professor Leonid Kosals (HSE) and Anastasia Maksimova (LCSR Research Fellow) titled "Informality, crime and corruption in Russia: A review of recent literature" was published in "Theoretical Criminology".
In 2014, HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK) successfully launched the English-language Master’s Programme "Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation". On the basis of the first enrolment rate the Programme was listed among Top-7 HSE Master’s programmes with the highest competitive selection.
