In the latest issue of Foresight-Russia journal consideration is given to the long-term prospects of the market of hybrid cars and nuclear energy, development of entrepreneurship, and the factors behind people's willingness to engage in continuing education; new tools to assess the quality of research are also proposed.
On June 26, the HSE Academic Council approved the opening of two new international laboratories. Specifically, the St. Petersburg School of Economics and Management will gain a laboratory for the study of healthcare economics, management, and policy, as well as a laboratory for game theory and decision-making. The labs' academic supervisors will be renowned international scholars.
On 29th June — 1st July the International Centre for the Study of Institutions and Development (ICSID) at HSE Moscow will hold its fourth annual conference. The theme this year is Institutions, Elites and Collective Action in the Developing World. Michael Rochlitz, Assistant Professor at the School of Political Science at the HSE Faculty of Social Sciences is among the impressive line-up of international specialists in the field who will be speaking at the conference. The HSE English News Service asked him about the focus of the 2015 conference, what new things it has in store and why he thinks it is definitely something to get excited about.
On June 9-25 Stéphane Menozzi, Leading Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Stochastic Analysis and its Applications, Professor at Université Evry Val d'Essonne delivered a series of lectures on 'Diffusions Processes on Manifolds'.
On June 25, Zarina Lepshokova and Viktoria Galyapina (senior researchers at ISEL-SCR, Higher School of Economics, Moscow) took part in the «Culture matters» research seminar.
Keiko SUGANUMA, Associate Professor of theCollege of Bioresource Sciences, Department of General Education,Nihon University (Japan) spoke about her scientific work and life in Russia.
of industrial managers view the current economic situation at their enterprises as ‘favourable’. These data are presented in a new Monitoring the Business Climate at Russian Industrial Enterprises study that was conducted in June 2015 by the Centre for Business Tendency Studies at HSE ISSEK.
New article written by Fabio Sabatini (LCSR associate researcher) and his colleague titled “The impact of the media on voters` attitude toward Junichiro Koizumi and his policy” was published in “Japan and the world Economy”.
New article written by Andreas Hovermann (LCSR associate researcher) and his colleagues titled “Anomie, marketization, and prejudice toward purportedly unprofitable groups: Elaborating a theoretical approach on anomie-driven prejudices“ was published in Acta Sociologica journal.
