University science. Internal possibilities of stimulating scientific activity in Russian universities

The statistics of research funding are reviewed, the experience of organizing research activities in Russian universities is summarized, and a model of its system support is proposed by the university itself. It is stated that in university science there is a “customer crisis”: the demand of the business sector does not provide the necessary volume of large and long-term orders for scientific research and studies rely mainly on the state budget. Organizational measures are proposed for a gradual transition from teaching to research with step-by-step confirmation of productivity: the creation of a new university subject – a “scientific unit” consisting of two or more employees, regardless of their academic title, with administrative rights and corresponding responsibility