Education

Master’s Programme Students of HSE ISSEK “Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation” for 10 weeks from January to March were doing their internships at Moscow Agency of Innovations. During the internship four students found several best technological solutions for optimizing the city transport, power grids, healthcare and other systems.

In terms of the Research Seminar course, two guest scholars gave an academic speech to the second-year Master students of the “Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation” programme. Prof. Jeong Dong Lee (Seoul National University, Korea) devoted his presentation to capability transition failure from implementation capability and concept design capability as a source of middle income trap. Prof. Liu Youfa (Shanghai Institute of International Studies, China) discussed relations between China and Russia through the prism of One Belt One Road Initiative. Seven groups of students wrote a group academic essay related to one of these topics. Three essays were awarded  "Best Academic Essay" certificates and online publication.

On 7 and 14 November, 2016, the ISSEK second-year Master’s students had a chance to walk across  a “creative bridge” between Moscow and the UK: to attend online lectures by one of the world’s creativity leaders – Tudor Rickards – Emeritus Professor of Creativity and Organizational Change at the Alliance Manchester Business School, Alex Osborn Visiting Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, the author of numerous books and articles on creativity, and the co-founder of the academic journal “Creativity and Innovation Management”. The online lectures took place within the course “Managing Creativity and Innovation” by Dr. Mikhail Gershman.

This summer Alexander Sokolov, director of the HSE ISSEK Foresight Centre, took part in the International Panel of Futurists (IPF) in Morocco. The Royal Institute for Strategic Studies (IRES) invited a pool of experts to suggest long-term scenarios for the country’s development, taking into account emerging global technology and social trends and the quite strong role the traditional way of life plays in this Maghreb country.

On April 28, 2016, professor Giorgio Sirilli, Research Director at the Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth of National Research Council (IRCrES), gave the lecture to the first year students of the Master’s Programme “Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation” on the role of science and technology in society, the impact of science and technology in crisis times and the issue of evaluation at universities.

Emilie Bertram and Yulia Moiseenko, first year students of Master's programme "Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation" shared their experience of studying on the double degree programme organized by the Higher School of Economics and Technical University of Berlin

On 5 April, the Head of Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Science and Education of the Russian Federation Dmitry Korotkov gave a lecture on Measurement of Science and Technology for the first year students of the Master’s Programme “Governance of Science, Technology and Innovation”.

On 21 March, 2016, five new members joined the Council:  Igor Agamirzyan, CEO of Russian Venture Company, Artem Shadrin, Director of the Department of Social Development and Innovations, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Sergey Salikhov, Director of the Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation,Maxim Nedzvetskiy, Head of Directorate, public joint-stock company "Gazprom", and Leonid Sorkin, General Director and Vice-President of Honeywell in Russia.