Foresight may absorb social construction in addition to the forecast of future global challenges, development trends and technology areas. ISSEK Foresight Centre experts Vladimir Mesropyan and Elena Gutaruk analysed how this new dimension can enrich the practice of developing measures of S&T policy during their visit September 9—20, 2013 to the Summer School at International Foresight Academy and the internship program at the Austrian Institute of Technology.
The lectures on «New Advances in Numerical Solution of Stochastic Differential Equations» and «Modeling, Optimization and Control of Stochastic Dynamics: Recent Advances in Finance, Economics, Biology and Environment» were held on October 14-15.
Speaker: Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber (Middle East Technical University)
The Fourth European Summer School for Scientometrics (esss 2013) opened its doors to ISSEK researchers Konstantin Fursov and Yulia Markova in September 8—13, 2013 at the Humboldt University of Berlin. The esss 2013 started with a Tutorial day, where the participants got acquainted with the basics of using web-instruments of bibliometric analysis provided by two major players in the field — Web of Science and Scopus.
On 10th of October has been held seminar from series "Culture Matters" with Shalom H. Schwartz, PhD, Scientific Supervisor of ILSCR, Professor at Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel) and at HSE (Moscow, Russia), presented an open lecture on following topic: "Cultural values as constraints and facilitators of socio-economic change".
The recent publication of Leonid Gokhberg and Dirk Meissner for the Nature journal is noted in the "Delegate's podium" section of the new newsletter sent out by OECD Working Party on Innovation and Technology Policy (TIP). The authors of the publication represent Russia in two OECD expert groups: Dirk Meissner is a member of TIP, Leonid Gokhberg takes part in the work of the group of National Experts on Science and Technology Indicators (NESTI), and he is also a member of its advisory board.
The September issue opens with the news on inclusion of Foresight-Russia in the international database Scopus. Other topics are the results of the Russian Long-Term S&T Foresight 2030 for ICT, the evaluation of performance in science and higher education, and the conceptual frameworks and influence of foresight studies.
