News

Gender attitudes before and after crisis: cross-cultural comparison

A report by Natalia Soboleva at the regular LCSR seminar

Delegate's podium

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.

Foresight-Russia, no 3, 2013

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.

The Role of National Identity in Anti-Immigrant Attitudes

A report by Lusine Grigoryan at the regular LCSR seminar

Predictors of Innovative Consumption Practices: Internet Shopping Adoption in Russian Households

A new article by Natalia Firsova

The Time of Bells

Interview with Eduard Ponarin on the 10th meeting of the Valdai Club

“Innovation: Superpowered invention” by Leonid Gokhberg and Dirk Meissner published in Nature

In the article the scientists compare accounts on the trajectory of innovation in Russia and the USA.

Economic Psychology

From 24th till 26th of September on the base of the ILSCR, the short training course “Economic Psychology” took place. The course was a part of the training program of the ILSCR  “Advanced theory and methodology in social sciences”.

Taking glances at education — from different angles

23—25 September 2013 in Gdansk (Poland), the experts of the OECD programme "Indicators of Education Systems" met to refine methodologies, regulations and indicators which serve as a basis for the assessment of the social and economic impact of education on the labour market, given in the annual OECD report "Education at a Glance". Natalia Kovaleva, director of the ISSEK Centre for Statistics and Monitoring of Education represented Russia in the meeting.

UNIDO has published the Competitive Industrial Performance Report, presented at HSE last week

On September 18 at Higher School of Economics, UNIDO's Competitive Industrial Performance (CIP) Report 2012/2013: The Industrial Competitiveness of Nations: Looking Back, Forging Ahead was presented. The HSE Institute of Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge organised the event. The full text report is available on the UNIDO website.