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Rating of Scientific and Technological Development in Regions: Approaches, Results, and Challenges

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The article analyzes the methodology and results of the first national rating for scientific and technological development in Russian regions. The advantages of the performed rating over its analogs (novel approach to assessing the age composition of researchers, the introduced assessment of children’s scientific and technical creativity) are shown as well as unresolved issues (accounting for research activities of the academic teaching staff, etc.) as well as the problems associated with unavailable detailed information on the rating results. The need to pay special attention to the development of interregional cooperation is explained.

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Notes

  1. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of December 21, 2020 no. 800 Issues of the State Council of the Russian Federation.

  2. List of instructions based on the results of the joint meeting of the State Council and the Council on Science and Education. Official website of the Presidential Administration of Russia. http://kremlin.ru/acts/assignments/orders/67752.

  3. Resolution of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences of February 9, 2022 no. 38 On the Creation of the Council for Regional Policy of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

  4. https://minobrnauki.gov.ru/press-center/news/novosti-ministerstva/61045.

  5. https://www.hse.ru/primarydata/rir.

  6. https://riarating.ru/regions/?id=630221279&date=20220425T-160513. Accessed December 1, 2022.

  7. https://minobrnauki.gov.ru/upload/2021/09/НиУ.PDF.

  8. Unfortunately, the description of these indicators in the methodology of the national rating is incorrect: it is impossible unambiguously to understand whether absolute or relative indicators are actually used.

  9. In the first case, we mean industrial technology parks, industrial parks (trading estates), industrial clusters, technology transfer centers, engineering centers; in the second, territories of advanced development, special economic zones, scientific and educational centers, territorial innovative clusters, innovative scientific and technological centers.

  10. Illustrative in this regard is the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation no. 3 of January 10, 2023, which unites the three territories of advanced development existing in the Amur Region into a single TAD.

  11. With an indicator value very close to St. Petersburg and Moscow: 556, 587 and 601 people in the 2021/2022 academic year. See Regions of Russia. Socio-economic indicators. 2022 / Rosstat.

  12. See also RIA rating of regional STD. https://riarating.ru/infografika/20221024/630231634.html.

  13. According to Rosstat (Statistical collection “Regions of Russia. Socio-economic indicators. 2022”), in the 2021/2022 academic year there were no university students at all in the Nenets Autonomous District, there were about 100 of them in Chukotka, and 200 in Yamal. ATS in these regions at the beginning of the academic year was represented by 0, 3, and 8 people, respectively. For the Chukotka Autonomous District and the Jewish Autonomous District, data on the number of researchers are not published at all to ensure the confidentiality of primary statistical data.

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Kuznetsova, O.V. Rating of Scientific and Technological Development in Regions: Approaches, Results, and Challenges. Stud. Russ. Econ. Dev. 34, 492–499 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1075700723040093

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