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The Laboratory for Comparative Social Research hosted the international workshop «Comparative Perspectives on Social Values and Modernization» in Saint Petersburg on April 24-27 2011.
The regular working seminar of LCSS took place on April 21, 2011. It covered the discussion of economic experiments on the provision of public goods.
Peter Schmidt, Professor of sociology at the University of Giessen and a renowned expert in social psychology, who has become one of the heads of the HSE International Laboratory for Socio-Cultural Studies, told us about the plans and key research topics of the laboratory.
April 8, 2011 the HSE Panel of experts № 5 and Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge have organized an international workshop entitled "The transition to innovation-based growth"
Interview with Jean Guinet, participant of the XII International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, who will head the new Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies which was created last year at the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge.
Interview with Ian Miles, participant of the XII International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, Professor at the University of Manchester and Academic Supervisor of the Research Laboratory for Economics of Innovation which was created last year as part of the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge.
On April 14, 2011 at the third regular seminar of LCSS, Mikhail Chernysh, PhD, the Head of the Sector of Social Mobility at the Institute of Sociology of the RAS, reported about the most interesting results of the Russian-Chinese comparative study: “St. Petersburg and Shanghai at the reform period”, carried out in 2009.