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The above directive approves the state programme Science and Technology Development, which determines the development of science and technology in the Russian Federation to 2020.
The state programme aims to achieve the following objectives:
- create a competitive and cost-effective research and development sector and ensure its leading role in the Russian economy’s technological modernisation processes;
- develop fundamental research;
- create a larger than planned science and technological potential in high-priority areas of science and technology development;
- ensure the institutional development of the research and development sector, improve its structure, management and financing system and integrate science and education;
- establish modern equipment and production assets in the research and development sector;
- ensure the integration of the Russian research and development sector in the system of international science and technological cooperation.
The state programme shall be implemented in 2013-2020 and in three stages:
· First stage: 2013;
· Second stage: 2014-2017;
· Third stage: 2018-2020.
Under the budget scenario, the state programme is to receive 1.603 trillion roubles in 2013-2020 (in comparable annual prices), including 145.12 billion roubles in 2013; 156.86 billion roubles in 2014; and 170.16 billion roubles in 2015. This meets the parameters of the federal budget for 2013 and the 2014-2015 planning period.
Under the modernisation scenario, the state programme will require 636.52 billion roubles’ worth of additional funding in 2013-2020 (in comparable annual prices), including 8.7 billion roubles in 2013; 21.3 billion roubles in 2014; and 33.5 billion roubles in 2015.
Funding volumes will be specified while drafting federal budgets for the relevant year and planning period.
State programme measures make it possible to concentrate financial resources on high priority aspects of science and technology development, and they aim to create a modern Russian science infrastructure, to ensure the development of its human resource potential, equipment and production assets and to make more cost-effective fundamental and applied research.
The implementation of the state programme and the attainment of its objectives shall be judged by the following main parameters:
- increase Russia’s specific share in the total volume of publications in global academic journals, being listed in the Web of Science database, to 3% by 2020;
- increase the number of Russian authors’ publications in academic journals, being listed in the Scopus database and per 100 researchers to 13 units by 2020;
- increase the number of peer-reviewed publications, per publication by Russian researchers in academic journals, being listed in the Web of Science database, to four units by 2020;
- increase the inventor activity coefficient (number of patent applications, being submitted in Russia per 1,000 people) to 2.8 units by 2020;
- increase the specific share of equipment aged less than five years at research and development companies to 65% by 2020;
- increase the specific share of publications, being coauthored by foreign scientists, in the total volume of publications by Russian authors in academic journals, being listed in the Scopus database, to 36.8% by 2020;
- reduce the average age of researchers to 43 by 2020;
- increase the specific share of researchers aged under 39 to 35% of the total number of researchers by 2020;
- increase in-house corporate research and development expenses to 3% of the GDP by 2020;
- increase the specific share of private investment to 57% of in-house corporate research and development expenses by 2020;
- increase the ratio between the average salaries of academic fellows and the average salaries of the corresponding regions to 200% by 2020;
- increase the specific share of higher professional education institutions to 15% of in-house corporate research and development expenses by 2020.