New State Economic Policy – Cluster Policy Cluster Policy as the Factor of Innovative Development of Europe

Scenario of long-term economic development presupposes increase of its competitiveness in traditional and new knowledge-intensive sectors, breakthrough in quality improvement of human capital and dynamics of labor productivity, in priority development of high-quality production and transformation of innovative factors into the main source of growth. Solving of these problems will require to create the system of detailed coordination of state, business, science and education on the basis of use of efficient instruments of innovative development, and now the cluster approach plays rather important role among them. Experience of clusterization of the western economy proves success of close territorial cooperation of different agents of industrial chain. Formation of new economy is connected with blurring of lines between countries and formation of network society based on economic clusters. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n12p10

Transformation of higher education during the pandemic: Pain points

© 2020 Moscow Polytechnic University. All rights reserved. The relevance of the study is due to the contradiction between the mass transition of the Russian system of higher education to the distance learning format and the insufficient willingness of participants in the educational process to work under the new requirements caused by the COVID 19 pandemic. Teachers, students and administrators of higher educational institutions in Russia have encountered a number of difficulties. Their analysis will highlight the objective and subjective factors of their occurrence and develop recommendations for the further organization of distance learning in its combination with the traditional format. The purpose of the study was to analyze the modern work experience in the remote format of one of the leading Russian universities - Kazan Federal University. On this basis, the article analyzes successes and problems of this process, shows the contradictions between traditional and distance learning, considers the main models of educational organization that involve traditional and remote learning formats using distance educational technologies. It is concluded that in the system of basic formal education at all levels and areas of training, distance learning can be considered as a form that complements and strengthens the social, pedagogical, organizational, psychological, and didactic potential of the traditional (face-to-face) educational format. The work comprehensively used the methods of theoretical (analysis, synthesis, systematization, comparison, etc.) and empirical (study of literature, conversation, questioning, observation) research

Consumer Demand for Durable Goods under Asymmetric Information

AbstractIn the paper study the peculiarities of the formation the consumer demand for durable goods, the so-called «experience goods» in markets with asymmetric information.In the known literature sources studying of the demand is based on the assumption that at the moment of the purchase of goods and services people know exactly what price they are willing to pay for them and what utility they are going to obtain using those goods and services

Transformation of higher education during the pandemic: Pain points

© 2020 Moscow Polytechnic University. All rights reserved. The relevance of the study is due to the contradiction between the mass transition of the Russian system of higher education to the distance learning format and the insufficient willingness of participants in the educational process to work under the new requirements caused by the COVID 19 pandemic. Teachers, students and administrators of higher educational institutions in Russia have encountered a number of difficulties. Their analysis will highlight the objective and subjective factors of their occurrence and develop recommendations for the further organization of distance learning in its combination with the traditional format. The purpose of the study was to analyze the modern work experience in the remote format of one of the leading Russian universities - Kazan Federal University. On this basis, the article analyzes successes and problems of this process, shows the contradictions between traditional and distance learning, considers the main models of educational organization that involve traditional and remote learning formats using distance educational technologies. It is concluded that in the system of basic formal education at all levels and areas of training, distance learning can be considered as a form that complements and strengthens the social, pedagogical, organizational, psychological, and didactic potential of the traditional (face-to-face) educational format. The work comprehensively used the methods of theoretical (analysis, synthesis, systematization, comparison, etc.) and empirical (study of literature, conversation, questioning, observation) research