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S&T Priorities for BRICS Countries: In Search of a Win-Win Strategy

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Most of the developed and developing nations, including BRICS countries, have been devoting considerable attention to S&T priority setting for quite a while now, since such priorities serve as a basis for their science, technology, and innovation (STI) policies (OECD in Priority setting for public research: challenges and opportunities. OECD Publishing, Paris, 2010; BILAT-USA in Analysis of S&T priorities in public research in Europe and the USA, 2010; Gassler et al in Priorities in science & technology policy—an international comparison. Project report commissioned by the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development, 2004; Gokhberg et al in Deploying foresight for policy and strategy makers: creating opportunities through public policies and corporate strategies in science, technology and innovation. Springer International Publishing Switzerland, Netherlands, 2016; Grebenyuk et al in Priority setting in the EU countries and the Russian Federation: The best practices, M.: National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2016; Cagnin in Foresight-Russ 8(2):46–55, 2014; Kuwahara et al in Foresight in Japan. The Handbook of Technology Foresight Concepts and Practice. 2008; Li in Research priorities and priority-setting in China. Vinnova Analysis, Vinnova, 2009; Pouris and Raphasha in Foresight STI Gov 9(3):66–79, 2015). Relevant efforts are mainly focused on solving strategic socio-economic problems, and making efficient use of national competitive advantages (OECD in Meeting global challenges through better governance. International Co-operation in Science, Technology and Innovation, OECD Publishing, Paris, 2012; European Forum on Forward Looking Activities in How to design a European foresight process that contributes to a European challenge driven R&I strategy process, European Forum on Forward Looking Activities, Policy Brief No. 2, 2015; Meissner et al. in Science, technology and innovation policy for the future. Potentials and limits of foresight studies. Springer, New York, Dordrecht, London, Heidelberg, 2013; Poznyak and Shashnov in Foresight-Russ 5(2):48–56, 2011; Sokolov and Chulok in Futures 80:17–32, 2016). S&T priorities are currently being set through a comprehensive assessment of their possible contribution to achieving sustainable socio-economic development, and strengthening the country’s competitiveness.

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  • 28 November 2018

    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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    Free access to this database is available on http://data.uis.unesco.org/Index.aspx?queryid=115.

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    OECD MSTI database is available here: http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=MSTI_PUB.

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    https://www.scopus.com/home.uri.

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    All calculations are based on the Scopus data. Types of publications included: articles, reviews, and conference papers.

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    RCA—Revealed comparative advantage index. RCA of country J in scientific field I, calculated as the relationship between the share of its publications in scientific field I in the total number of publications of country J and the equivalent global figure. Those fields where the RCA value is higher than 1 are classified as areas of scientific specialization of a country.

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    Index of Technological Specialisation is calculated as the relationship between the share of patent applications in a specific subject area in the total number of national patent applications, and the share of all patent applications in the same areas filed globally in the world’s total number of patent applications.

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    Calculations were made on the basis of the first- and second-level Scopus classifications.

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    See more in https://service.elsevier.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/15181/kw/subject%20categories%20and%20subject%20areas/supporthub/scopus/related/1/.

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    Alexander Sokolov, Sergey Shashnov, Maxim Kotsemir & Anna Grebenyuk

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Sokolov, A., Shashnov, S., Kotsemir, M., Grebenyuk, A. (2018). S&T Priorities for BRICS Countries: In Search of a Win-Win Strategy. 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_2

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