Contribution
Description: Higher education systems are experiencing substantial changes all over the world. The number of students enroled in HEIs is increasing while the state funding is constantly gowing down that makes tension between maintaing higher education as a public good or transfering it into service, an ordinarary commodity on the market. So the main research question is to analyse to what extent and how national science and research policy influences the HEIs performance. What is the role of institutions' management as usually the problem is not at national policies but in how these policies are interpreted and implement by higher education institutions. And what is the role of international agreements like Bologna, GATS in this process? A general background will be based on B. Clark's triangle of coordination (1983), the theory of academic capitalism (S. Slaughter), knowledge-based economy (M. Castells). The role of various stakeholders in the process of priority setting will be analysed. Nowadays in Russia there is a strong tendency of transfering public universities into entrepreneurial entreprises that is supported by the government, striving at market-like behaviou (S. Slaughter). Therefore, it is interesting to reveal the driving forces of this process, safegurding the human capitable and enabling the country to be compatible in the global marketplace.
Methodology: The key terms such as science / research policy, public versus private good, entrepreneurial university etc. will be analysed. In order to examine the impact of national state policy the case study in the Tomsk Polytechnic University (Russian Federation) will be carried out in order to see how the state science policy is transfered into the research policy and mission of a higher education institution. Legal documents like federal education law of the Russian Federation, conception of the development of Russian science till 2010, main trends of investment policy in the field of science and technology, policy,mission, goals of universities, international educational agreement documents, research priorities are used as the sources.
Conclusions: The study should reveal the trend of the development of higher education in the Russian Federation, particularly research management and contribute to the debate about the role of state iinfluence on the process of commercialisation of higher education around the world.
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