of Russian industrial company leaders report that demand for their products is ‘below normal’ levels. This is the worst report since April 2010 when 40% of senior managers were unsatisfied with the level of demand for their products, as told in a new Monitoring the Business Climate study in service sector by the Centre for Business Tendency Studies at HSE ISSEK.
On September 25, Alexander Zibenberg, PhD, participated in the “Culture matters” seminar. Alexander Zibenberg is a researcher at the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research, HSE.
The Russian Ministry of Education and Science’s work on adjusting the lists of priority S&T development areas and critical technologies for the RF was discussed by representatives of public research centres at a meeting held at the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Aviation Materials (VIAM) on September 19, 2014. The meeting was chaired by Lyudmila Ogorodova, deputy minister of education and science, and attended by Dr. Alexander Sokolov, director of HSE Foresight Centre.
was the level to which the business confidence index in the service sector fell in the third quarter of 2014. One year ago, it was at the level of +6%. This information comes from a new Monitoring the Business Climate study in the area of services by the Centre for Business Tendency Studies at HSE ISSEK.
of parents of high school students planning to enter a university don’t give thought to the fact that their children may end up studying in a different region. Five years ago, the number of such parents was higher at 60%. These data were obtained from a survey of Russian households that was conducted in the autumn of 2013 as part of the Monitoring of Education Markets and Organisations (MEMO), a study carried out jointly by HSE and the Public Opinion Foundation.
The Russian Ministry of Economic Development jointly with HSE created a specialised system for preliminary external expert evaluation of clusters’ funding applications, based on the Russian Cluster Observatory’s platform. The tender organisers believe it will contribute to raising clusters’ projects’ quality.
Esko Aho, the former prime-minister of Finland, spoke to the students of the new master’s programme “Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation”. The politician who has led his nation into the European Union told the future managers what could hinder successful development of a country, or a particular company.
