Goodbye to Dependent Policy of Scientific and Technological Development. Review of the monography “On the Long-Term Scientific and Technological Development of Russia”

Abstract

The article presents a detailed review of the collective monograph "On the Long-Term Scientific and Technological Development of Russia", including reports by the leaders of the team of authors and speeches by participants in the discussion of the book. Part of the monograph is devoted to the analysis of global trends in scientific, technological and innovative development, private financing of research and development, digitalization of the economy and public life. The monograph analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the Russian scientific and technological complex and assesses its place in the world. The review emphasizes that the authors of the monograph critically assess the state of the Russian scientific and technological complex, consider it working for external systems and justify the need to abandon the existing scientific and technological policy in favor of a nationally oriented one. The monograph proposes measures to change all components of the management system in the scientific and technological sphere, which requires the development of a Strategy for the technological modernization of the Russian economy based on new principles, taking into account various factors, the reconstruction of a management body similar to the State Committee for Science and Technology, and the reformatting of the now "open" innovation system. The authors of the monograph propose a solution to the problem of scientific and technological forecasting, using domestic and international foresight experience. The approaches and solutions proposed in the monograph were fundamentally supported by the participants in the discussion of the monograph, since they express the deepest sentiments of the predominant part of the Russian scientific community and, undoubtedly, deserve the most careful further critical discussion and constructive study.