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Appendix C Basic Principles of the Russian Federation Policy on the Development of Science and Technology for the Period to 2010 and Beyond
Pages 33-48

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From page 33...
... 2. The legal basis of the Basic Principles is the Constitution of the Russian Federation and the federal laws "On State Science and State Scientific-Technical Policy" and "On State Forecasting and Programs of Social-Economic Development of the Russian Federation." 3.
From page 34...
... scientific-technical complexes including all organizations of different organizational-legal forms and forms of property which are involved in science, scientific-technical activity, and training of scientific workers, including personnel of the highest qualifications b. fundamental science, which has world-renowned scientific schools and a well-developed system of higher education c.
From page 35...
... encouragement of support for scientific research and experimental development in priority fields of science, technology, and engineering while taking into account world trends g. strengthening of the R&D capabilities of higher education institutions h.
From page 36...
... The state policy relating to the development of science and technology proceeds from the necessity to establish and implement the following: a. the most important innovative projects of value to the state using dedicated resources provided by the state (hereinafter referred to as innovative projects of state value)
From page 37...
... lists of crucial technologies of federal, regional, and local importance 15. The priority directions in the development of science, technology and engineering of federal importance, lists of critical technologies of federal importance, and task-oriented programs of scientific research and experimental development are established to ensure implementation of the most important innovative projects of state value.
From page 38...
... establishing a system for sharing the achievements of domestic science, technology, and engineering including informing the public about the measures taken by the state to encourage the development of science and education o. establishing a climate favorable for the development of innovation activities, for the introduction of technological innovations in production, and for attracting private investments in the high-tech sector of the economy Formation of a National Innovation System 18.
From page 39...
... improvement in the mechanisms for interaction between the participants in the innovation process -- including organizations which facilitate the integration of state scientific organizations and state higher educational institutions with industrial enterprises -- to promote new production technologies and to raise the qualifications of production personnel b. implementation of an efficient economic policy with regard to the participants in the innovation process, the encouragement of extra-budgetary financing, and the development of institutional and legal conditions for venture capital investment in science-intensive projects c.
From page 40...
... creation of conditions that can help attract and retain young people engaged in science and technology b. correlation of the types and quantities of highly-qualified scientific personnel being trained with science, technology, and engineering priorities: the number of specialists trained should also be correlated with major innovative projects of state importance, paying particular attention to the improvement of employment opportunities for scientific workers and the availability of qualified specialists for training highly-qualified scientific and engineering personnel c.
From page 41...
... state support for international cooperation with the purpose of: implementing major innovation projects of national importance; supporting priorities in science, technology, and engineering; and extending fundamental research b. developing a normative-legal base for stimulating the inflow of foreign investments in the domestic scientific, scientific-technical, and innovation spheres; adjusting the legislation of the Russian Federation in science, technology, and engineering to conform with the norms of international law in this area c.
From page 42...
... In the field of finances · financing appropriate scientific R&D activities through the federal budget at a level that ensures implementation of tasks of the Basic Principles · providing annual increases of appropriations for the program "Fundamental Research and Stimulation of Scientific-Technical Progress" to support the most important projects of value to the state; ensuring efficient use of federal budget allocations for financing fundamental research and encouraging scientific-technical progress · targeting the allocation of budgetary funds for support of the most important scientific projects of value to the state, concentrating budgetary resources on the implementation of priority tasks in the development of science and critical technologies of federal importance · searching for, and efficiently using, extra-budgetary sources of funding R&D efforts; this will supplement funds from federal executive bodies and local administrations of the Russian Federation, all of which support the introduction of scientific and scientific-technical results into the economy · encouraging the activities of charitable organizations and other economic entities involved in financing fundamental research · providing state support for science cities from budgets of all levels
From page 43...
... for those employees who make considerable contributions to the development of Russian science, and the mastery of high technologies and engineering · increasing additional payments to those with Candidates and Doctors of Sciences degrees employed in state scientific organizations and state higher educational establishments based on their achievements in obtaining scientific degrees · creating conditions that can help attract and keep young people in the spheres of science and technology, including training young specialists in priority fields of science, technology, and engineering · increasing the amount of funding (up to three percent) from the federal budget that is allocated for fundamental research and the stimulation of scientifictechnical progress, for targeted support of scientific schools, and for R&D in priority fields of science, technology, and engineering conducted by young scientists and students · increasing the volume of housing construction for young scientists, including housing based on mortgages · improving pensions for scientists with advanced degrees (Candidate and Doctor degrees)
From page 44...
... · increasing the budgetary allocations for civil R&D in correlation with the transfer of profits of scientific organizations, generated by the leasing of federal property to the federal budget · compensating state scientific organizations and state unitary enterprises for the rent of land using government funds at all administrative levels (within the limits of land lots recognized in inventories as indispensable for scientific and scientific-technical activity)
From page 45...
... development and implementation of the basic financial-economic and program documents · federal budget and budgets of the subjects of the Russian Federation · federal purpose-oriented programs, in particular, "Research and Development in the Priority Fields of Science and Technology" covering the period 20022006, "Integration of Science and Higher Education in Russia," for the period 2002-2006, and "National Technological Base," for the period 2002-2006 · state weapons program for the period 2001-2010 · state defense orders b. development and implementation of major innovative projects of state importance c.
From page 46...
... to define the procedures for conducting R&D in areas which could undermine security of the Russian Federation, public health, or the ecological situation in the country j. to re-orient the existing goal-oriented program of R&D to support science, technology, and engineering priorities, while considering a range of major innovation projects of state value; and to elaborate and approve the federal goaloriented program "Scientific Personnel" k.
From page 47...
... to optimize the composition of the scientific-technical complex, including the establishment of integrated scientific, scientific-technical, and scientificeducational structures n. to form a network of centers for shared use of unique scientific equipment At the second stage (up to the year 2010)


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