Roadmap for the Development of Competition in Science and Higher Education as a Tool to Eliminate Barriers to the Growth of Competitiveness of Russian Science on Global Markets

Abstract

The issues of the negative impact of monopolization of global intellectual property markets on the practice of competition between Russian scientific and educational organizations and the competitiveness of Russian science and education are considered. The problem of “office slavery” of Russian scientists and its negative impact on budgetary financing of science are formulated. To eliminate these barriers, it was proposed to adopt in the form of an act of the Government of Russia a Roadmap for the development of competition in science and education, the draft of which was prepared with the participation of the author by a working group of the FAS Russia and the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Roadmap proposes to abandon the practice of economic coercion of Russian scientists to publish the first scientific results obtained primarily in foreign journals, indexed, first, in the WoS. At the same time, it was proposed to create based on Scientific Electronic Library eLIBRARY.RU (based on an agreement or reorganization) an open international abstract database of scientific data with the allocation of national segments of the participating states. The conditions for the formation, financing, operation and use of the resources of this base are proposed to be determined by an open intergovernmental agreement of the Russian Federation. To overcome the negative impact of the monopolization of global markets for scientific results by a narrow circle of commercial organizations, the author proposes to adopt the Declaration, and then the UN Convention on the Protection and Use of Scientific Results (Science Convention).