Работа посвящена анализу возможности применения опыта стимулирования коммерческих организаций в бюджетном секторе и на государственной службе. Авторы на основании анализа теории и международного опыта формулируют условия применения стимулирующих контрактов и рекомендации по их внедрению в бюджетном секторе и на государственной службе в России.

В представленной статье представлен анализ сущности контроля и надзора в России и за рубежом, выявлена специфика контроля и надзора в отношении малых и средних предприятий. На основе анализа литературы авторы делают выводы о факторах соблюдения или несоблюдения законодательства фирмами. В работе рассматривается международный опыт контроля и надзора в отношении малых и средних предприятий, приведены передовые зарубежные практики, направленные на совершенствование системы контроля и надзора, и отмечены наиболее перспективные для России.

В данной работе проанализированы основные международные подходы к построению рейтингов высшего образования и дана оценка их применимости для сопоставления российских вузов.

В работе представлены методика и основные результаты типологизации регионов России. При применении кластерного анализа были выявлены четыре основных типа регионов, требующие дифференцированной политики – «отстающие», «средние», «сырьевые» и «инвесторы и лидеры».

Attractiveness of a university means being in demand and reflects its ability to attract the best students. The aim of this research is to identify key factors influencing the best students’ choice in Russia. Average unified state examination (USE) scores of successful candidates for admission to the universit y, are used as a de pendent variable. The paper provides a review of theoretical models and empirical studies of high school entrants’ decision criteria. Our econometric analyses show that the key factors of university selection are university’s brand, success of its graduates, quality of teaching staff and college’s location. In some cases research activity is also a significant factor. Those technical universities, which retained their specialization, are among the most in-demand, and demand for technical universities, which increased the share of students in economics, is below the average. The achieved results are useful for the heads of higher education institutions while developing evidence-based measures to increase demand for universities. First of all, there is a need for reputation improvement, which includes dissemination of information about achievements of graduates and scientific achievements, etc. on the internet.

The article considers key issues of creating innovation infrastructure in Russia and abroad.The authors focus on the “innovation brokers” as an intermediary institute for innovative agents.According to them, innovation brokers are able to fill in the gaps of the innovation infrastructuresystem, created by the governmental administrative measures. International practices of thecountries, that are world economic and innovation development leaders (the USA, the Netherlandsetc.), indicate the fact that innovation brokers can be rather effective in solving many problemsof providing the infrastructural support to innovation companies. The paper provides guidanceon the possible ways of involving innovation brokers in the Russian national innovation systemas one of the main tools of providing the effective infrastructural support to innovation processesby greater “soft infrastructure” involvement (ICT-facilities, social, professional and organizationalnetworks).

In the first part of the article, the authors give an analysis of the barriers which new companies face when they enter the advanced technologies market, and offer their classification of entrance barriers for innovative goods markets. In the second part, they suggest new means of governmental help for small innovative companies in order to overcome these barriers. The conclusion is that the governmental innovation policies do not fully use the potential of merging and takeovers as well as the clustering mechanisms in order to develop a national innovative system and the markets of advanced technology products.