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Science, Technology and Innovation Policy for the Future

A multi-author book “Science, Technology and Innovation Policy for the Future. Potentials and Limits of Foresight Studies” edited by Dirk Meissner, Leonid Gokhberg and Alexander Sokolov is published by Springer Publishing House.

Inter-Departmental Commission on Technology Foresight Commenced Work

On 7 June, 2013 the RF Ministry of Education and Science hosted the first meeting of the Inter-Departmental Commission on Technology Foresight. The participants discussed initial steps to launch nation-wide systematic activity in this area. The Commission members included Leonid Gokhberg, first vice-rector of the HSE and director of the ISSEK, and Alexander Sokolov, director of the ISSEK’s Foresight Centre.

Shipbuilding Foresight Project Approved by the Ministry of Industry and Trade

On 7 June, 2013, at an extended meeting held at the Shipbuilding and Marine Equipment Department of the RF Ministry of Industry and Trade, participants discussed the implementation of the programme “Development of Shipbuilding in 2013—2030” during the first half of the year. Future objectives and steps were outlined in the presentation by Oleg Karasev on scenarios and prospects for the industry’s development.

Inter-Departmental Commission on Technology Foresight Commenced Work

On 7 June, 2013 the RF Ministry of Education and Science hosted the first meeting of the Inter-Departmental Commission on Technology Foresight. The participants discussed initial steps to launch nation-wide systematic activity in this area. The Commission members included Leonid Gokhberg, first vice-rector of the HSE and director of the ISSEK, and Alexander Sokolov, director of the ISSEK’s Foresight Centre.

Socio-Cultural Specific of Russian Frontier

A new paper by Anna Nemirovskaya and Roberto Foa

CSID fellows at MPSA

Staff of the Center acted within one of MPSA conference sessions

Participation of ILSCR members in the Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA)

The INSNA congress (International Network for Social Network Analysis) took place in Hamburg (Germany) on 21-26 of May. XXXIII Sunbelt Social Networks Conference   of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA). More information about this event can be found on the conference website.

16 th congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology

Lusine Grigoryan, junior researcher of ILSCR, participated in 16th congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology, organized in University of Munster, Germany.

Islamism and Fundamentalism: Role of values in Islamic political movement

A report by Kirill Zhirkov at the regular LCSR seminar

On Monday, June 3 a Scientific Seminar of the International Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis was held

The following topics were discussed at the seminar:
1. Kostomarov Vadim -  "Axiomatics of Esteban's and Ray’s polarization measure. Application to Aleskerov-Golubenko index";
2. Mirishli Denis and Mohovikov Anton -  "Programming matrix-vector representation for uncovered and k-stable sets".