A new working paper by Roberto Foa and Anna Nemirovskaya
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26th June on IAMO Forum 2014, Halle, Germany held report A. Yakovlev «The Effectiveness of Simple Homogeneous Commodity Procurement under Rigid Governmental Regulation: The Case of Granulated Sugar Procurement in Russia». Co-authors of the report were O. Demidova and A. Bashina.
On June 6-9, the International Scientific-Educational Laboratory for Socio-Cultural Research held its fourth international Summer School. The summer school was focused on improving the research proposals of the participants and brininging them up to standards for publication of the leading international scientific journals.
On June 10-11 International Scientific-Educational Laboratory for Sociocultural Research has held an international conference “The social psychology of economic and cultural change”. They keynote speakers were : Cigdem Kagitcibasi (Koc University, Turkey), Shalom Schwartz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel), Fons van de Vijver (Tilburg University, Netherlands), and Seger Breugelmans (Tilburg University, Netherlands). Researchers from the Laboratory and other institutions also presented their research.
Title: "A behavioral perspective on social choice"
On 27 June, the Parlamentskaya Gazeta’s press centre hosted a round table discussion “Measuring regions’ performance: efficiency and control techniques”. One of the participants was first vice-rector, director of the NRU HSE ISSEK Leonid Gokhberg. He presented the innovation development rating of the RF regions which the Higher School of Economics was calculating for several years in a row.
Laboratory staff presented their reports on the Sixth International Conference on Cognitive Science which was held in Kaliningrad, Russia, June 23-27, 2014.
In the new issue, you can read about scenarios for shipbuilding, Foresight evolution in Brazil, the results of a ten-year evaluation of technology Foresights in several leading countries, the state of play in Russia of a number of advanced technologies (3D-printing, the Internet of Things, composite materials), and how to improve management efficiency in terms of information overload.
Anton Kazun, a research assistant of Institute for Industrial and Market Studies was awarded a Diploma of the finalist for the "Best Master's Thesis" nomination in All-Russian thesis competition for The All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) prize.