Abstract
The problem of rationalizing S&T cooperation, including identifying the most promising areas and forms for S&T cooperation (geographical and thematic) and state support instruments, is critically important to many countries. In view of the growing complexity of global trends and domestic restrictions on development and the emergence of new factors affecting contacts with foreign countries, there are increasing demands in the international arena to collect and analyse relevant information required to make substantiated administrative decisions on various levels, including with regard to international S&T collaboration. In these conditions, researchers and experts tend to resort to a broad range of empirical methods, while politicians make more active use of their results in administrative practice and international contacts. This working paper describes and systematizes analysis results in the field of international S&T collaboration based on a bibliometric study. The authors combine quantitative methods of bibliometrics and sociology to identify prospective partners and promising areas for collaboration. In addition, the possibility of using the proposed approach to provide information support for current state policy-making is assessed, and key results of the study are examined
Highlights
Solutions to problems associated with global challenges directly affect the scientific and technological community, go beyond the remit of individual governments, and are only possible on a regional or international level [EC, 2011; Silberglitt et al, 2006]
Their selection is promoted as a basic approach to establishing and implementing a system of measures/actions to overcome the economic and technological gap between Russia and the global leaders, modernize and transform the national economy, increase the competitiveness of the research and development (R&D) sector, and raise the effectiveness and performance of government spending to support and develop this sector
Even a preliminary analysis of bibliometric data clearly shows that Russia’s problem lies in the fact that it is falling behind many countries in advanced S&T fields, but that it is continuing to develop in directions different from those of other countries, both in terms of scales and structure
Summary
Solutions to problems associated with global (grand) challenges directly affect the scientific and technological community (the ‘scientific sphere’), go beyond the remit of individual governments, and are only possible on a regional or international level [EC, 2011; Silberglitt et al, 2006]. STDPs and CTs are key components of all strategic initiatives and a basis for decision-making in the scientific sphere, including the implementation of S&T achievements in the economy and public life These priorities are regularly revised and refined based on the results of long-term S&T development forecasts. Focusing on contacts with a particular group is associated with positive expectations, and with significant barriers and problems coming to light In this respect, the appeal factors of the BRICS countries (except Russia: China, India, Brazil and South Africa) for cooperation in science are linked to the fact that they: produce ‘cheap’ and ‘reverse’ innovation; have ambitions in certain scientific and technological fields and high interest in developing cooperation with Russia; like Russia, are under pressure from the explicit and implicit constraints of technology exchange with Western countries. The potential of using the proposed approach to provide information support for current state policy-making in this sphere, as well as the results obtained in the course of the study are analysed
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