Dualism of the public procurement market of scientific results and prospects of its regulation

Abstract

The article deals with the concept of scientific results, the market of public procurement of scientific results. The dualism of the public procurement market of scientific results is manifested not only in the duality of the subject of procurement (research work and the actual scientific result), but also in the duality of the markets of scientific results themselves (the market of the actual scientific results and market access to the right to conclude a state contract for the implementation of research).It is noted that at present, scientists (not having the status of an individual entrepreneur), individual scientists and their teams that have not acquired the form of a legal entity (including temporary research teams) are not full participants in the market of public procurement of scientific results.It is proposed to abandon the preferential approach to public procurement of access to research results provided by specialized operators of international scientific citation indexes Web of Science and Scopus in order to develop the Russian segment of the global market for scientific products.The authors also propose to create a single network of national databases on the results and effectiveness of scientific research on the basis of a specialized state scientific institution (for example, the ISS RAS) and provide state participation in the development of the national operator of the Russian Science Citation Index based on the requirements of or exceeding the requirements of Web of Science and Scopus to scientific publications.In parallel with the solution of this task, it is proposed to abandon the practice of establishing legal acts of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and of the Russia, decisions of the Higher Attestation Commission, heads of universities and research institutions of the duties of researchers, teachers and applicants of scientific degrees and academic titles to publish the results of scientific research in foreign scientific journals owned by foreign economic entities and citizens, which objectively contribute to strengthening the dominant position of foreign companies - the leader in the market access to research results.