scholarly journals Management problems of an interdisciplinary research center

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
Vladimir Rakin
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Psychological Climate ◽  
Publication Activity ◽  
Research Center ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
World Class ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
Stimulation System ◽  
Interdisciplinary Projects

The practice of creating interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary research centers in Russia is caused by the need to implement interdisciplinary projects in accordance with the objectives of the Strategy of scientific and technological development and priority directions of science development in the Russian Federation. However, the development of complex research within a single institution faces a number of problems related to the management of the multidisciplinary center, the system of evaluation of research efficiency in separate divisions of the center, funding of individual research areas, creation of a comfortable psychologicalclimate that promotes the performance and effective completion of interdisciplinary projects, creation of an effective stimulation system, aimed not only at increasing the publication activity of researchers, but also to produce world-class results that require in-depth, focused work. The problems of creating an effective management system focused on ensuring maximum creative freedom of a scientist and reducing bureaucratic pressure on a researcher and creating a comfortable psychological climate in an interdisciplinary research center depend mainly on the head of the organization and his management apparatus. The development of scientometric system of comparative rating of the effectiveness of scientific teams within separated units, the creation of a differentiated system of motivation of scientists, aimed not only at increasing the publication activity, but also to obtain breakthrough scientific results requires the involvement of a serious scientific approach, despite the fact that scientometric research is not among the prestigious and attractive scientific directions, but at the same time it causes a high critical reaction from officials and scientists of all scientific fields.

scholarly journals The SoftWipe tool and benchmark for assessing coding standards adherence of scientific software

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Zapletal ◽  
Dimitri Höhler ◽  
Carsten Sinz ◽  
Alexandros Stamatakis
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Software Selection ◽  
Scientific Software ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Computational Tools ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Coding Standards ◽  
Scientific Results

AbstractScientific software from all areas of scientific research is pivotal to obtaining novel insights. Yet the coding standards adherence of scientific software is rarely assessed, even though it might lead to incorrect scientific results in the worst case. Therefore, we have developed an open source tool and benchmark called , that provides a relative software coding standards adherence ranking of 48 computational tools from diverse research areas. can be used in the review process of software papers and to inform the scientific software selection process.

The long-term development of Russian biotech sector

foresight ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 491-500 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Grebenyuk ◽  
Nikolai Ravin
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Plant Biotechnology ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The Usa

Purpose To define strategic directions for the Russia’s social, economic, scientific and technological development in 2011-2013, a large-scale foresight study including the deep analysis of prospects of biotechnology development there was undertaken (Russia 2030: Science and Technology Foresight). This paper aims to present results of this research. Design/methodology/approach The study was based on a combination of technology-push and market-pull approaches that aimed not only to identify most promising science and technology (S&T) areas but also to understand how they can be realized in practice. Representatives from federal authorities, science and business were involved in the project to create future visions of technological directions; analyze grand challenges, weak signals and wild cards; and set research and development (R&D) priorities. Findings According to results of the study, Russia has a potential for biotech sector development, although the level of R&D in the majority of areas is lagging behind that in the USA and leading EU countries. However, there are several advanced applied research areas where efforts can be focused. Among them are high-performance genomics and post-genomics research platforms, systems and structural biology, microbial metabolic engineering, plant biotechnology and microbial strains and consortia for development of symbiotic plant–microbial communities. Originality/value Concentration of available resources of government and business on biotechnological sector development can help to find answers for challenges that Russia faces today or will face tomorrow. It will help to pick up on the current level of research activities, improve the quality of personnel training, make this area the engine of the economy and carry out the so-called new industrialization of the country, building a new, high-tech device industry.

scholarly journals Interdisciplinary research in the context of the development of educology

Osvitolohiya ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 26-30
Author(s):  
Svetlana Sysoieva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Financial Policy ◽  
Education History ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Education Management ◽  
Qualitative Level ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
Interdisciplinary Projects ◽  
Pedagogical Research

The article shows that the widening of the subject field of modern pedagogy requires research that goes beyond the boundaries of discipline and acquires the features of inter- and multidisciplinarity; a new qualitative level of research in education can be provided on the principles of educology as a scientific direction of an integrated study of the field of education that focuses on objects and phenomena with a «rigid» and broad type of interdisciplinarity that goes beyond the established subject of pedagogy; the criterion for distinguishing pedagogical researches and studies in the field of educology (education sciences) is defined – «the type of interdisciplinary study». Pedagogical research in its essence always differs by the soft type of interdisciplinary, since the research of purely pedagogical phenomena and processes requires «narrow» interdisciplinarity: in such studies, the integration of close to the methodology and paradigms of scientific disciplines. Studies on education (education studies) can always be attributed to the «rigid» type of interdisciplinarity, since such studies have a «broad» interdisciplinarity: methods, concepts and / or theories of sciences that have little compatibility (philosophy of education, history of education, Cultural education education, education management, educational policy and educational law, economics of education, sociology of education, etc.). The stimulation of interdisciplinary research in education should take place through educational programs, the creation of various centers and the establishment of inter-institutional contacts, as well as the development of a financial policy to support such research, the creation of mechanisms for coordinating and supporting interdisciplinary projects in the field of education at the national and supranational levels. The leader in interdisciplinary research, according to most forecasts, will be social and humanitarian sciences as well as life sciences.

scholarly journals TOPICAL ISSUES OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY DEVELOPMENT IN RUSSIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (02) ◽  
pp. 197-211
Author(s):  
Anna Rozentsvaig ◽  
R. A. Vdovin
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Competence Development ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Research Education ◽  
World Class

The article deals with some directions of the research and educational policy development. The correlation of approaches to the development of the strategic academic leadership program and the world-class research and educational centers establishing, centers of competence development is analyzed. Engineering knowledge and technology are at the heart of the modern economy. Engineering methods, approaches, and technologies have permeated medicine, biology, agriculture, chemistry, and the development of new materials. Understanding the directions of technological development determines the prospects for creating and using new products. further development of the issue related to the introduction of artificial intelligence technologies in the engine-building industry from the point of view of legal regulation will allow to consolidate the official legal status of such technologies at the legal level and regulate the algorithm and delimit the use of artificial intelligence technologies. The analysis of responses to the big challenges of scientific and technological development and the exhaustion of economic growth opportunities, the formation of the digital economy and the risks of reducing human resources. The development of international accreditation procedures is proposed. Keywords: Research; Education: Research and educational center: Competence development center; Artificial intelligence technologies: International accreditation.

scholarly journals True and pseudo-interdisciplinary researches: The principles of a system-structural approach to the medical-and-psychological projects planning

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 177-192
Author(s):  
N.E. Kharlamenkova ◽  
N.A. Yeskin ◽  
A.I. Snetkov ◽  
A.D. Akinshina ◽  
S.Y. Batrakov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Structural Approach ◽  
Actual Problem ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
National Medical ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Interdisciplinary Projects ◽  
Object Of Study

The actual problem of interdisciplinary projects organizing is discussed. The purpose of the article is to justify the principles of planning and conducting the interdisciplinary medico-psychological research, in identifying its features in comparison with pseudo-interdisciplinary approaches. Types of interdisciplinary research are examined, distinctions are made between the true and pseudo-interdisciplinary approaches. The principles of true interdisciplinary research are formulated — the principle of choosing the object of study, the principle of determining the coordinates of the subject area of research, the hypothetico-deductive principle of interdisciplinary research and the principle of unity of interdisciplinary project methodology. The content of each principle is revealed by the example of medico-psychological research currently being carried out by the team of employees of the Institute of Psychology RAS and the National Medical Research Center of Traumatology and Orthopedics named after N.N. Priorov. It is shown that the system-structural approach to conducting the interdisciplinary medico-psychological research consists in coordinating theoretical constructs and empirical variables in accordance with the given coordinates of the research subject field and specific criteria for assessing the physical and mental state of the object of study. It is shown that the selected criteria allow, without leveling the specifics of individual scientific disciplines — medicine and psychology — to form a unified subject field of research and to develop an approach relevant for solving scientific and practical problems.

Managing Contradictory Stakeholder Demands of a Publicly Funded Research Center

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (01) ◽  
pp. 1550002
Author(s):  
Peter Hutterer ◽  
Regina Gattringer ◽  
Hans Irschik ◽  
Franz Strehl
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Research Center ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Funded Research ◽  
Conflicting Demands

Following the guidelines of the European Union (EU), Austria supports scientific research and technological development by publicly funding of research centers. Such centers are positioned between scientific and industrial stakeholders and have to simultaneously fulfill contradictory demands. This paper deeply analyzes the Austrian Center of Competence in Mechatronics (ACCM) and exposes why this publicly funded research center is able to effectively manage these conflicting demands. Using the theory of ambidexterity, the study highlights that appropriate structures and strategies are preliminarily needed. In particular we found that the fundamental abilities for managing contradictory demands are located on an individual level and argue that especially the autonomous, well-educated people and their competences of self-organization enable the research center to be ambidextrous.

scholarly journals Interdisciplinary integration on sustainable development issues

2020 ◽  
Vol 169 ◽  
pp. 02001
Author(s):  
Dmitry Sergeyevich Ermakov ◽  
Alexander Sergeyevich Ermakov
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Methodological Problem ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Interdisciplinary Projects ◽  
Doctoral Dissertations ◽  
Interdisciplinary Integration

In order to achieve sustainable development, we need a deep understanding of both social and humanitarian processes and relationships in living and nonliving nature. The development of scientific research areas that are related to sustainability are very important. Unfortunately, sustainable development is not among scientific and technical priorities in Russian Federation. This study analyzes the dynamics of PhD and Doctoral dissertations on sustainable development performed in various areas of science in the USSR and Russia in 1987–2019. The majority of dissertations (1 322 in total ) were in the area of economics (85.4 %), while significantly fewer were in philosophy (2.9 %), technical (2.3%), and geographical (2.2 %) sciences. There are almost no dissertations in the fields of biological and chemical sciences, pharmaceutics and medicine. Our data indicate a significant imbalance and economic bias in the study of sustainable development issues. In this regard, it can be assumed that interdisciplinarity, which can be implemented in the framework of convergent and transdisciplinary approaches, is one of important methodological problem of sustainable development. Examples of relevant interdisciplinary projects are considered.

Integrative Approach to the Evaluation of Implementation Research Projects: Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 28-41
Author(s):  
Галина Унтура ◽  
Galina Untura ◽  
Татьяна Новикова ◽  
Tatyana Novikova ◽  
Наталья Горбачева ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Scientific Center ◽  
Education Production ◽  
Project Analysis ◽  
Integrative Assessment ◽  
Scientific Results ◽  
Interdisciplinary Projects

The article is devoted to the methodological foundations of an integrative approach to managing and evaluating the effectiveness of interdisciplinary projects with many participants. The aim of the study is to assess the effectiveness of interdisciplinary projects of the Novosibirsk Scientific Center in accordance with the methodology of the integrative approach, which takes into account the multi-purpose use of the results of research and development of a specific scientific direction in different fields (science, education, production). The essence of the integrative assessment of projects consists in the integrated application of the methods of the typology of scientific results and methods of project analysis, which allows to take into account the totality of the obtained results of an interdisciplinary project, starting from the stage of basic research and ending with the development stages of product prototypes or new technologies of high readiness. The analysis of the characteristics and effects of the projects that we use in the assessment methodology is carried out from the standpoint of different criteria: the attainability of world-class scientific results; increase the level of technology readiness, the use of scientific results in education and production. Innovative opportunities of projects can be additionally economically evaluated by methods of project analysis. The examples of the success of projects in terms of their high applicability for the development of priority areas of science and technology, improving the quality of education are shown. The findings can be used to develop a strategy for the development of regional research centers where research institutes of different profiles are located and in the management of research projects with many participants.

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