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The human potential of Russian science

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The author of the article published below is of the opinion that Russia has lost its positions as a world scientific power. One of the main causes is the destruction of the human potential of science over the past 20 years due to chronic underfunding, the decreased prestige of scientific activity in society, the reduction of the number of researchers, and the deformation of their age structure. The weakening of the human component of the scientific potential is a serious obstacle on the way toward the innovation-based reconstruction of Russia’s economy and an increase in its competitiveness in the world market of high technologies.

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  1. L. G. Zubova
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Original Russian Text © L.G. Zubova, 2012, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2012, Vol. 82, No. 8, pp. 712–718.

Larisa Georgievna Zubova, Cand. Sci. (Econ.), is head of the Sector of the Sociological Monitoring and Analysis of the Science-Innovation Sphere at the Center for Science Research and Statistics (CSRS).

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Zubova, L.G. The human potential of Russian science. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 82, 295–301 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331612040120

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