Lectures of Prof. Jutta Guenther from the University of Bremen
On September 22-26, 2014 the students and the staff of ISSEK attended the HSE-hosted lectures by a guest speaker Prof. Jutta Guenther from the University of Bremen (Germany).
Measuring Researchers’ Interest to Solving Major Problems of the Present Day
On 2 and 11 July, 2013 the Higher School of Economics hosted expert workshops “Promising S&T development areas: analysis of research fronts”, organised by the ISSEK’s International Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies. The debates’ results will be taken into account in the course of building the national system of technology foresight.
Mario Cervantes’s lectures on Smart Specialisation and Open Science
Mario Cervantes, Senior economist, Head of Country Study and Outlook Division, Directorate of Science and Technology Policy, OECD, lectured 9 and 12 July 2013 at Higher School of Economics at the invitation of ISSEK International Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies.
Technology Foresight: How to Make It Efficient
On 11 June, the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge of the HSE (ISSEK) and the RF Ministry of Education and Science hosted a theory-and-practice seminar “Technology Foresight System: Goals, Objectives, Approaches to Organisation”.
A Bridge between Science and Practice
On May 20, 2013, as part of Innovation Media Day, a discussion panel ‘Technologies of the Future: A View from Innovation Leaders, Development Institutions, and Media’ took place. The panel was organized by the HSE, RIA Novosti, and Russian Venture Company.
Technology Development: a Correct Foresight
On 21 May, 2013 Higher School of Economics hosted a working meeting on the results of the Russian S&T Foresight 2030, and the objectives for the next stage of the study.
Economics of Science
How to evaluate research performance and efficiency of S&T activities? An attempt to find response on these and related questions was undertaken by the participants of the roundtable "Monitoring Economics of Science: Main Results and Development Prospects" that was organized by the HSE ISSEK at the 2nd day of the XIV April Conference.
Research and Development: What Centres of Excellence Should be Like
On 4 April, as part of the HSE’s XIV April International Academic Conference, HSE ISSEK hosted a seminar “Global Trends in Public R&D Investments: Designing, Setting Up and Running Centres of Excellence”
R&D: Placing the Accent on Centres of Excellence
How centres of excellence should be run? According to which principles they should be funded? How their performance should be assessed? These issues attracted the most attention at the concluding sessions of the ISSEK’s seminar “Global Trends in Public R&D Investments” which took place on 4 April as part of the HSE’s XIV April International Academic Conference
At Foresight frequency: broadcasting signals from the future
International scientific conference Foresight: Innovative Answers to Global Challenges, organised jointly with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), was held at the Higher School of Economic on 18-19 October, 2012. For Russian long-term futures research experts, it was a major venue for discussing promising areas of future-oriented studies.