Human Capital in Industry 4.0. Present and Future

The purpose of the article is to explore digital technologies that impose new requirements on the system of human capital formation, especially education. The authors have updated the concept of «human capital». They propose a scheme of its development as a successive transition from natural talents and gifts to higher values and meanings, accumulated individually throughout life. It is argued that digitalization has an increasing influence on this process: after the digitization of external physical objects and communications of the “man-technique” type, it is rapidly subordinating all communications of the “man-human” type and claims to digitize the functions of man himself. In this situation, man (if he wants to preserve his subjectivity) is required to develop personally ahead of the rapid evolution of the technosphere. As a result, man will find himself in a situation where he can only deal with values and meanings, while physical production will be carried out by the autonomous technosphere.The Government needs to promote the development of human capital with fundamentally new professional competencies codified by law. Training, in addition to professional sectoral knowledge, should be directed towards the development of digital competences and future metanautics. Access to digital information is governed by dynamic legal aspects of law.

Stimulation of University Technological Entrepreneurship: Experience of Portugal and Estonia

An analysis of foreign experience convincingly shows that the level of science intensity of national products is directly related to the country’s position in international rankings of the productivity of university ecosystems. With a share of 0.4% in the global number of start-ups, Russia is inferior not only to developed countries but also to the BRICS countries. As of 2020, only 37 start-ups per million population are being created in the Russian Federation, while Switzerland has 1791. At the same time, in the jurisdiction of Russia, out of the total number founded in 2010–2019 start-ups remained no more than 36%. The strategies allow universities to create successful technological innovation ecosystems in the cultural, economic, and socio-political environment, which cannot be characterized as favorable for academic entrepreneurship. The analysis of factors stimulating the development of start-up ecosystems in Estonia and Portugal, including simplified residency programs for founders of foreign start-ups; ease of registration, business and taxation system; presence in the country of representative offices of large international companies and the creation of technological hubs for them, a developed system of national incubators and accelerators, including those financed by the state; safety, low cost of housing and living and comfortable living environment.

Taxation of Grants in the Russian Federation

The purpose of the article is to find out the peculiarities of grant taxation in Russia, depending on the subject composition of persons, implementing or attracted to the implementation of the grant. The article uses the following methods of scientific knowledge: analysis and synthesis, through which the provisions on grant taxation were first divided into constituent features and subsequently combined to formulate a position on the stated issue, also used the method of mental experiment, which allows to consider different options of taxation of persons involved in the implementation of grants. The result of this article was an indication of the absence or existence of an obligation to pay taxes on the grant for different entities: organizations and individuals as grant recipients and as entities involved in the implementation of the grant project. The decision to pay tax depends not only on which entity is the recipient of the grant, but also on which entity provides the grant. The existing approach to the solution of the considered question is characterized by complexity, biased differentiation criterion and requires correction.

Organizational and Economic Mechanism of Innovative Development of the University

The aim of this research is to adapt the concept of open innovation, widely used in business, for the purposes of universities. The methodological basis of the research was the methods of systematization, comparative analysis, logical-structural analysis and synthesis of literature, which contains the main theoretical, methodological and practical issues of the theory of open innovation, innovative development of universities, development of the organizational and economic mechanism of innovative development of the university and assessment of the innovative development of the university. The research results can become a methodological platform for the creation and implementation of innovative projects at universities and ensuring their innovative development in general.

Inventors Dynamics in Balkanic Area: Evidences by a Network Analysis

Patent data is a key source of information for innovation economists. In recent decades it has been possible to observe its significant diffusion and success mainly thanks either to archives digitization or to authorities’ greater openness with respect to patent granting procedure. Furthermore, the use of this information over time has not been limited to simple statistics on patents and their classification, but, going further, has extended to the analysis of applicants, inventors, citations, and much more. By this seminal paper, we are going to analyze starting from Data analysis related to a selection of Balkanic Countries, chosen among the most dynamic in innovation process and production of patents: Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. How it will explain into the work, this selection was not accidental: the aim was to represent the evolution of these Countries, in terms of patent internationalization, depending on their “link” with the European Union, not all Western Balkan Countries are in fact part of it. Croatia, an official EU member since 2012, was chosen as the representative state of European influence. Some interesting results were obtained with a novel approach by social network analysis techniques.

Specialized Venture Capital Funds as a Tool for Supporting Investment in Advanced Technologies

An overview of the most common and proven in world practice types of budgetary support for the venture industry, including the creation of venture capital funds, is carried out. The Russian experience of state support for the venture capital sector is analyzed, and a positive assessment of the work of closed-end mutual investment funds created by RVC in 2007–2009 is given. The principles for the formation of mechanisms for increasing the venture activity of state institutions, particularly state programs for creating venture capital funds, have been formulated. It is shown that the funds of specialized venture funds can become a decisive factor in supporting startups at the expense of budgetary funds and lead to the organization of additional high-tech jobs, equal spatial economic development of the country, and the achievement of other social goals.

Development Strategy for the Electronic Industry of the Russian Federation and Its Financial Support

The purpose of the article is to substantiate how to solve the problem set by the President of Russia to achieve sovereignty in the development and production of electronics and electronic component base. The Government developed methods for achieving this goal and approved by the Strategy for the Development of the Electronic Industry until 2030. The most powerful and dynamically developing competitor of domestic electronics in China, therefore, it is advisable to consider the development of domestic electronics, having isomorphic processes at individual enterprises and in electronics in China as a scale line. Now a bottleneck in the development of domestic electronics has emerged – this is the lack of proactive and duplicate funding for breakthrough technologies. The article presents an asymmetric version of the response to the total and increasing Western sanctions, the main element of which should be non-monetary investment certificates.

Trends in the Development of Scientific and Publication Activities

The publication activity of research teams and scientists is determined by the number and quality of scientific publications for a certain period of time. Recently, the country has been taking active measures to increase publication activity. The purpose of this work was to study and analyze changes in factors affecting the publication activity of researchers and teachers and to identify the main trends in this process. The following issues were considered: assessment of the publication activity of researchers; trends in the development of the journal and publishing industry; changes in the requirements for papers and their writing. As a result, the main trends in changes in factors influencing the publication activity of researchers and lecturers were identified.

Analysis of Requirements for Academic Staff at Higher Education Institutions

The purpose of this study is to analyse the modern requirements for the teaching staff. The article examines the regulatory requirements for various positions of the teaching staff, analyses 338 vacancies of Russian universities on one of the largest job search sites and the most relevant domestic and foreign research on this topic. The methodological basis of the study is the results of monitoring and analysis of regulatory requirements for the teaching staff and current research on the designated topic, as well as the results of content analysis of current vacancies for 35 qualification and competency requirements, depending on the position on the search site work “hh.ru”. As a result of the study, the author was able to identify the most relevant requirements of various stakeholders to the teaching staff. The results of the study can be used by university leaders to improve activities related to assessing the quality of employees, by candidates for faculty positions in order to identify individual points of growth, and can also serve as a basis for further research in this area.

Technological Entrepreneurship in Regional Universities of Russia: Factors of Containment and Acceleration

The role of universities in modern socio-economic systems of states is undergoing significant changes and involves the actualization of approaches to defining the functions of educational organizations. At the same time, university startups are viewed as the most dynamic elements of regional economies, capable of creating export-oriented science-intensive products and new high-tech jobs. Transformation and development of regional entrepreneurial ecosystems using as a trigger for academic entrepreneurship of universities to stimulate the powers of the subjects of the federation of the process of formation of start-ups by universities in cooperation with local or global enterprises of the real sector of the economy.The study aimed to analyze the factors that stimulate and hinder technological entrepreneurship in regional universities in Russia. A review of the approaches used in the world’s leading universities, creating successful entrepreneurial ecosystems, is carried out, the key factors that determine the productivity of such ecosystems are highlighted. It is noted that in most constituent entities of the Russian Federation, it is not possible to implement a set of basic factors that contribute to the involvement of RIA in the regional economy, including in local universities, as well as in horizontal network interaction of startups founded by graduates or employees of regional universities.The functions for the university’s management of the transformation of regional ecosystems in entrepreneurial universities and the formation of university ecosystems are proposed.