On June 6-9, the International Scientific-Educational Laboratory for Socio-Cultural Research held its fourth international Summer School. The summer school was focused on improving the research proposals of the participants and brininging them up to standards for publication of the leading international scientific journals.
Speaker: Y. Veselova, research assistant of HSE International Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis Title: "A behavioral perspective on social choice"
On 27 June, the Parlamentskaya Gazeta’s press centre hosted a round table discussion “Measuring regions’ performance: efficiency and control techniques”. One of the participants was first vice-rector, director of the NRU HSE ISSEK Leonid Gokhberg. He presented the innovation development rating of the RF regions which the Higher School of Economics was calculating for several years in a row.
Laboratory staff presented their reports on the Sixth International Conference on Cognitive Science which was held in Kaliningrad, Russia, June 23-27, 2014.
In the new issue, you can read about scenarios for shipbuilding, Foresight evolution in Brazil, the results of a ten-year evaluation of technology Foresights in several leading countries, the state of play in Russia of a number of advanced technologies (3D-printing, the Internet of Things, composite materials), and how to improve management efficiency in terms of information overload.
Anton Kazun, a research assistant of Institute for Industrial and Market Studies was awarded a Diploma of the finalist for the "Best Master's Thesis" nomination in All-Russian thesis competition for The All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) prize.
Leonid Gokhberg, director of the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge and first vice-rector of the HSE, told the Okna Rosta about analytical publications and other public activities by the HSE experts.
A seasonal revival in consumer demand stimulated an increase inretail trade in Q2 2014. Food retail showed the best results, but intensified moods to save household earnings, a slowdown in income growth, high inflation, and difficulties in obtaining consumer credit might soon change the situation, according to experts from the Centre for Business Tendency Studies at HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge in their latest monitoring of the retail business climate.
of industrial companies are anticipating further price increases in the next 3-4 months for the products they manufacture. 38% of enterprises expect growing prices for raw materials. This information comes from a monitoring study on the business climate in the production industry carried out by the Centre for Business Tendency Studies at the HSE’s ISSEK.
