Resource capacity of university research teams and scientific schools: problems of development strategy and management

Abstract

: Introduction. One of the urgent problems of modern higher education is the desire of universities to improve their resource base. It appears in the form of various manifestations of a professional-pedagogical, research, publication, communication, temporal and other nature. One of the most important university resources are research teams (SC) and research schools (NS). They became the subject of the author's analysis in the proposed article. It gives a description of the common and different between them, shows the resources that take place in each of the two named scientific structures. It is proved that the main subject of both SC and NS is the social and professional community of scientific and pedagogical workers (SPR). The article presents its author's understanding. Materials and methods. The basis of the empirical base of the article was, firstly, statistical materials that characterize the higher education of the Ural Federal District and the faculty of its universities, and secondly, the materials of interviews conducted among more than 30 representatives of this professional community on strategies for managing them. Results. The main results obtained in the course of the study are as follows. 1. Identification of the key characteristics of the SPD resources actively participating in NC and NS: traditions of scientific schools; the authority of the head (leader); opportunities to win joint grants; continuity of generations. 2. Identification of the specifics of the resources of NC and NS, which make it possible to discover common and different things in the activities of the SPD that are part of their structure. 3. Understanding the role of research and publication resources as a factor in revitalizing the activities of NCs and NSs. 4. Characteristics of the interpretations of NC and NS under the conditions of formalization of the resource capacity of each of the scientific structures. Discussion. Discussion of the strategy for the development and management of NC and NS resources: 1. The excessively high level of exploitation of the research resource of the CS by management structures in the structures of CS and NS. 2. Imitation of scientific publicity and activity of the NDP within the framework of the NC and NS. 3. Absolutization of the physical indicators of the professional development of the scientific and technical staff in the structures of the NC and NSH. 4. Allocation of problematic resources of NC and NS under the new conditions of university management.