Проекты

The project led by distinguished professor of Science and Technology Studies at UC Davis (USA) Mario Biagioli is designed as a 28-month study of the population of Russian computer scientists (RCS henceforth) in Russia and abroad. From 2013 to 2015 extensive ethnographic fieldwork and/or oral history research was conducted in Moscow, Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg, Tomsk, Vladivostok, Kazan, as well as England, Israel, France, and the USA (Boston/NYC and San Francisco areas). The main interest of the study is to understand how professionals communicate across national and professional boundaries in the dual context of an intrinsically portable form of knowledge – relatively not-sticky forms of innovations – and a politically tense status quo where emigrates are both praised for their entrepreneurship and blamed for bringing the competition within or for siphoning the brightest brains off the Russian Federation. 

A report delivered by EUSP for the state corporation Russian Corporation of Nanotechnology (ROSNANO)

Project: Self-fashioning practices of successful technological entrepreneurs and their influence on the efficiency of high tech companies: the cases of Russia, Finland, South Korea and Taiwan. The project is run with the support of RUSNANO.

Up to now the work on the reform of the Russian science has not been finished; a wide public debate continues over the prospects of the reforms, the efficiency of the Russian Academy of Science, the possibilities to apply Western models to the Russian reality and the question about what modernization model to choose for our country. In this situation of exigencies and urgent need for expertise the traditional approaches to the study of the Russian science have suddenly turned out to be insufficient. 

The research area of institutional sociology of science is supervised by Dr. Mikhail Sokolov, the Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and Sociology.