PROBLEMY EKSPLOATACJI – MAINTENANCE PROBLEMS 3-2010

The Russian S&T sector has come high on the Russian policy agenda in efforts to diversify the economy beyond primary goods production. In this context, foresight has become in recent years an important tool for S&T policy making in Russia. Specialized institutes, which provide analytical support to the government and R&D and innovation funding institutions were established. But foresight is also applied for developing and deepening of the EU-Russia R&D and innovation cooperation within the FP7 funded ERA.Net RUS project1. 1. Russian R&D and innovation In the recent years the Russian R&D and innovation sector has undergone tremendous changes while policy makers have taken important decisions to modernise it. At the beginning of the 1990s, when the Soviet Union was dissolved, the Russian Gross Domestic Expenditure on R&D (GERD) declined dramatically from levels over 2 % of GDP to around 0.7 % of GDP. It has grown 1 See for details on the ERA.Net RUS project and its preliminary analytical results of EU-Russia S&T cooperation at: www.eranet-rus.eu