Research Center
“Policy Analysis and Studies of Technology”
Tomsk State University
Support by Higher Educational Support Program
Open Society Institute
Evgenia Popova, Elena Simakova
STS Summer School, EU SPb, Repino
12 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
http://towiki.ru:8686/view/Категория:Реки_Томской_области
Tomsk Universities
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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 1/6
88 000 university students to 508 000 city
population
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36% dwellers have higher education
НГ 2-118
http://www.nanonewsnet.ru/blog/nikst/tgu-rosnano-sozdali-sovmestnoe-innovatsionnoe-predpriyatie
http://album.tomsk.ru/page.php?id=3&gid=10
There are over 450 hi-tech companies
some are affiliated on the
regular basis with international
hi-tech companies
(for example APC, Nokia,
Microsoft, Apple, Intel)
http://dn.vtomske.ru/press/news/thumb_big/31324_xbaidxmv.jpg
http://www.salon.ru/news_one.plx?id=20565#
http://chur.gorod.tomsk.ru/
http://chur.gorod.tomsk.ru/
http://chur.gorod.tomsk.ru/
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:
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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
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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
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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
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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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