Towards a New Science and Technology Policy

Abstract

The upcoming stage of scientific and technological development of Russia will make significant adjustments to the scientific and technological policy (STP), associated with a sharp break in international cooperation and restrictions on the supply of new technologies, equipment and goods to the country. Under such conditions, the principles and methods for the formation and implementation of the STP must undergo fundamental changes, up to its radical transformation. There is a need for a serious reassessment of the entire complex ofSTP management, along with the formation of a new system of STP priorities. It is expedient to form a system of such priorities both from below – from the side of the scientific community, and from above – from the side of government bodies. The STP funding system should also undergo significant changes: it is expedient to keep project funding, but budgetary scientific funds should have their own strategy and performance indicators, based on which the next year’s budget will be formed. It is equally important to provide appropriate information support for the revision of the STP, including a serious revision of the list of paper and electronic journals included in the VAK, with the exclusion of all publications with paid publication fromit. It is expedient to develop international cooperation only on an equal basis with potentially promising and politically adequate partners.