CONTENTS

Volume 1, 2012

 

INVESTMENT MARKET

Yuriy YERSHOV. The international energy security and prospects of world energy development for the next 20 - 25 years

It will be a year in November 2011 since the government of Russia has distributed around the large number of countries and international organizations the project of the Convention on international energy security and started a big campaign for presentation of the document. In the developing conditions the degree of the acceptability of the Convention on international energy security by the world community substantially depends on forecasts of world energy development for a long-term outlook that allows to estimate the scale of future threats for global energy security and to detect critical points of such threats.

Oleg SUKHAREV. Institutes of regional development (conceptual - practical analysis of organizational changes)

The author generalizes the experience of management by development institutes in the regions of Russia, concludes that there is a necessity to improve the quality of executed functions of planning and analytical preparation of decisions at a regional level of authority.

Georgiy OSTAPKOVICH, Inna LOLA. Investment activity by industrial enterprises in 2011

The centre for market research of the Institute for statistical studies and economics of knowledge of the National research university «Higher school of economics» presents an informational-analytical material about the state of investment activity by industrial enterprises in 2011 and expectations of businessmen for 2012.

Irina GRISHINA. Territorial features of investments in capital assets in post-reform Russia

The general investment reduction that accompanied the initial stage of economic reforms appeared to be so strong, that no region of the country managed to the middle of 1990th to keep the volume of capital investments at a level close to the pre-reform one. Enough a wide circulation has received in this connection The point of view, according to which laws, by which the investment activity was reduced, are universal for all territory of Russia and regional specificity was not so significant to resist the general economic tendency, has been widely spread in this connection. But, nevertheless, the reduction of investment activity that took place that time occurred in various regions differently.

Small and medium business support (continued, beginning in № 12, 2011)

According to the results of meeting on state employment policy held on 1 March, 2011, it was entrusted to the government of Russia to provide coordination of the activity directed at support of small business, including realization of the program of small and medium business support, as well as actions aimed at assistance of self-employment of jobless citizens, at support of small forms of management in village and small forms of innovational business.

 

INVESTMENT TECHNOLOGIES

Viktor MOSKVIN. The realization of the system competence approach to the constructing of education programs

Some key stages of the realization of the system competence approach are considered in the article in more detail.

 

INNOVATION

Leonid RATHKEEN. The apologetics of science or once again on the stability of financing system of scientific and educational institutions: an epilogue for the fiftieth space anniversary

What will stay in our memory about the anniversary year of the Russian astronautics? Whether research programs financing was improved, whether the branch science got stronger after crisis and reforms, or not? In the publication it is narrated about these and other problems.

 

REFERENCE AND ADVICE

Oleg SUKHAREV. The task of modernization: the correction of a structural disproportion

From O. S. Sukharev's speech in the State Duma on the 20th of October, 2011 within the framework of Kondratieff readings «Modernization of Russian economy: lessons and prospects».