Research Center“Policy Analysis and Studies of Technology”

Tomsk State UniversitySupport by Higher Educational Support Program

Open Society InstituteEvgenia Popova, Elena Simakova

STS Summer School, EU SPb, Repino12 July 2012

Why Tomsk State University?

• TSU is the first university in Asian part of Russia (since 1880 year)

• TSU include in Top-500 world university ranking by “The Times” (with Moscow and SPb state universities)

• TSU have get a status National Research University (NRU) and one of the two Russian NRU which develop social and human sciences as profile.

Tomsk region on Russian map

Tomsk was founded at 1604

Tomsk region population is 1 081 000 people

Tomsk city population is 508 604

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Tomsk Universities• Universities are city-forming enterprises

by local law.• 6 big state universities are situated in

Tomsk. Five of them are ranked as one of the five-seven Russian best universities of their specialization

• Share of student in city population is 1/688 000 university students to 508 000 city population

• 36% dwellers have higher education

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There are over 450 hi-tech companies

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some are affiliated on the regular basis with international hi-tech companies (for example APC, Nokia, Microsoft, Apple, Intel)

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The main idea of PAST-Center is studies of technology and innovation processes from various research perspectives

• Political Sciences

• Public Policy Studies (PPS)

• Political Economy

• Science and Technology Studies (STS)

PAST-Center team:

• Evgenia Popova, director• Elena Simakova, research adviser• Olga Bytchkova• Dmitrii Galkin• Katerina Guba• Olga Melnikova• Artem Rykun• Olga Stolyarova

Major directions of PAST-Center activities:

I. Research activities

II. Organization of scientific meetings

III. Educational Activities .

Key Research Themes• Analysis of science and technology policy:

- city utilities and infrastructures (e.g. heating and water supply systems)

- social studies of medicine (e.g. obstetrics); - technological entrepreneurship and

innovation in practice.• New approaches in technology assessment

• Technology and arts: (e.g. computer modeling; synthetic biology and emerging life forms)

• Studies of Science Communication

Major directions of PAST-Center activities:

I. Research activities

II. Organization of scientific meetings

III. Educational Activities .

• September Annual international conference “Public Policy in the Sphere of Technology and Sociology of Innovations”

• Summer schools: 1. May 2013 “Policy Analysis”;

2. September 2013 “Sociology of Expertize and Technology Assessment”

3. September 2014 “STS”;

4. September 2015 “Sociological and Policy Studies of Innovation”.

• Two-week Public Seminars (October-May)

• Student Research Essays Competitions on “STS and Studies of Science and Technology Policy”

Major directions of PAST-Center activities:

I. Research activities

II. Organization of scientific meetings

III. Educational Activities .

• Development of a MA program in Sociology of Management

• Teaching courses on STS and policy analysis by the PAST-Center faculty.

• Curriculum Courses development on special topic: “The New Paradigm of the Sociology of Science and it's Enemies”; “Russian Technological Policy”, “Sociology of Innovation”, “History of Digital Cultures”, and others

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