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The Russian Federation faces a variety of challenges in securing adequate investment in new knowledge and technologies and deriving socio-economic benefit from them. The global financial crisis of 2008 and the ensuing stagnation were exacerbating domestic weaknesses, such as the limited market competition and persistent barriers to entrepreneurship, which were hampering the growth of the Russian economy. Despite some reforms since, these challenges have intensified since mid-2014.
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In the original version of the book, the affiliation of authors “S. Shashnov, M. Kotsemir, A. Grebenyuk, L. Gokhberg , T. Kuznetsova, and A. Pikalova” was incorrect in chapters 2 and 5.
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Including the Presidential Decree on the Approval of the Priority Areas for the Development of Science and Technology and the List of Critical Technologies (2011), the Strategy for Innovative Development to 2020 (2012), the State Programme for Development of Science and Technology, 2013–2020 and the Federal Goal-oriented Programme on Research and Development in Priority Areas of Russia’s Science and Technology Complex (2012).
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Roughly 60% of Russian researchers work in Moscow, the Moscow Region and St Petersburg. Six other regions together account for about 20%: Nizhny Novgorod, Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Rostov, Tyumen and Krasnodar.
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This programme provides schools, colleges and universities with full-scale financing for equipment procurement, offers subsidies to the best secondary schools and technical colleges, finances advanced teachers’ training, etc.
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Including St Petersburg Polytechnic, the Far-East Federal University and three national research universities: the Higher School of Economics; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; and Moscow Institute of Engineering and Physics.
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See: http://engineer-cadry.ru.
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Not to be confused with the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, set up in 1993 to issue grants for basic research.
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The Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Russian Foundation for Humanities and the Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises were all set up in the early 1990s.
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In 2015, it was renamed the Federal Corporation for the Development of Small and Medium Enterprises, a public company with 100% state ownership.
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Prior to the reform of 2013, there were six Russian academies: the Academies of Sciences; Medical Sciences; Agricultural Sciences; Education; the Arts; and Architecture and Construction Services.
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Such as bionanotechnology, neurobiology, bioinformatics, etc.
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Some technoparks were not able to fulfil their mission and achieve the prescribed objectives (measured in terms of highly skilled jobs created, turnover of goods produced and services rendered to resident businesses, completed projects, etc.). See: http://nptechnopark.ru/upload/spravka.pdf.
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The 2017 call for proposals of basic research projects held by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research jointly with organisations participating in the BRICS Framework Science, Technology and Innovation Programme.
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Daya Bay neutrino oscillation facility’s official website [Electronic resource]. Access mode: http://dayabay.ihep.ac.cn/twiki/bin/view/Public/.
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Gokhberg, L., Kuznetsova, T., Pikalova, A., Sokolov, A. (2018). Overview of Science, Technology and Innovation Development in Russia. In: Zhao, X., Li, M., Huang, M., Sokolov, A. (eds) BRICS Innovative Competitiveness Report 2017. Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8078-4_5
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