Scenarios of the innovative development of education in the context of the Russian economy’s modernization: entrepreneurial universities vs. high-tech universities

Frontiers in Education

Education

Elena N. Belkina¹  Galina N. Semenova²  Vera V. Dvoretskaya³  Irina S. Antonova⁴ 

[1] Department of State and Municipal Administration, Kuban State Agrarian University, Krasnodar, Russia;Department of State and Municipal Finance, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow, Russia;Department of State and Municipal Finance, Moscow State Regional University, Moscow, Russia;Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia;Institute of Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia;

关键词: sustainable development education;    education policy;    educational governance in developing countries;    education quality;    adult literacy;    university innovations;    entrepreneurial universities;    high-tech universities;   

DOI  :  10.3389/feduc.2023.1153084

 received in 2023-01-28, accepted in 2023-06-07,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The article is aimed at identifying the scenarios of the innovative development of education in the context of the Russian economy’s modernization through the opposition of entrepreneurial universities and high-tech universities. The authors conduct a system econometric analysis. The scenario analysis showed that the strategic prospects (optimistic, long-term scenario) of the innovative development of education to support the modernization of the Russian economy through the optimization of universities’ activities require the upgrading of equipment by 982.51% for increasing the research activities to 10269.44% (compared to the threshold), which will bring Russian universities to the 1st place in the QS ranking. In the medium-term period, the share of modern (less than 5 years old) equipment in Russian universities should tend to be 90%. As it is shown by a probable and promising scenario, this will improve the position of the Russian universities in the QS ranking by 6.17%. It is proved that only high-tech universities contribute to the innovative development of education in the context of the Russian economy’s modernization. Therefore, the reduction of state funding of higher education and science makes no sense in Russia, as well as the development of entrepreneurial universities. Instead, the focus should be on the upgrading of university equipment. The originality of this paper lies in a new vision of the prospects for the development of the system of higher education in Russia in the Decade of Science and Technology (2022–2031). This new vision is as follows: for the innovative development of education in the context of the Russian economy’s modernization, it is necessary to refuse the diversification of universities and to achieve their unification, making a choice either in favor of entrepreneurial universities or in favor of high-tech universities.

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