Dr. Nadezhda Gaponenko, Millennium Project Russian Node chair, Russian Institute of Economics, Policy and Law, (RIEPL), Ministry of Industry, Science and Technology. Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, prented the Node's report at the Millennium Project Planning Committee meeting in Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 15-16, 2004.

Dr. Gaponenko underlined that she presented the Millennium Project work with various occasions at the many conferences and meetings in Russia and in other countries. Than she focused on special issues and works in whichRIEPL is involved.

RUSSIAN NATIONAL SYSTEM OF INNOVATION IN THE ERA OF UNCERTAINTIES

• Market globalization & rhythm of evolution accelaration
  • call for the development of more adoptive NIS
  • rethinking the role of different institutions & collaboration
  • bringing research more closely to industry
  • strengthening the industrial research
  • rethinking the idea of competitiveness and performance
  • transition to new innovation culture
• Transition to technological base of knowledge- base society & interlacing of basic technologies of 21st century
  • Rethinking R&D priorities and critical technologies
  • Interdisciplinary research
  • New role of basic knowledge & AoS
  • Creation of new clusters
  • New role of technology transfer institutions and a call for their transformation
  • Encouragement of start up of spin- offs and technology- based firms
  • Building human capacity
  • Linkages between S-I-T-E policies to prevent mismatches between labor supply and demand
• Growing complexity of problems
  • Rethinking policy – areas & linkages between different policy areas and political institutions
  • Involving different stakeholders in policy development and implementation
  • Adopting the methodology of Foresight to new requirements
  • Strengthening regional dimensions of innovation policy as well as vertical linkages and trans-regional networks
• Changing role of different actors
  • Dialogue and networks between actors
  • Involvement of different actors in vision development and policy making process
• Environmental challenges
  • Environmentally friendly technologies and behavior

GAPS:

• Institutional Gap

• Response:BI, ITC, SP, international centers, SRC, financial institutions
• Gaps: Lack of measures to support start up, TBI; No measures to support spin-offs, technology- based firms, specialized incubators
• Competitiveness gap and transition to technological base of knowledge- based society
  • National Programs were not oriented on the competitiveness strengthening ( 220 commissions& councils under the government; abolished 159; competitiveness and business undertakings Counsel)
  • Bringing R&D closer to Industry
• Digital Gap
  • National Programs (eRussia, Education, ECommerce)
  • Private sector
  • Building human capacity(Number of students per 10 00 of population; Number of PhD & post Doctoral)
  • Knowledge production--R&D expenditures as percentages of GDP; R&D personnel per 10 000 of population

NEW CHALLENGES

• Addressing security and sustainability issues
• Impact of natural and technological disastrous
• Emergency of new and rebirth of old diseases
• Biotech
• Institutions & Collaboration
• Response to new stage of market globalization

You can view the power-point presentation given by Dr. Gaponenko at: http://millennium-project.org/millennium/moscow-0304.pdf