Foresight for development of innovation ecosystems in Russian education: information basis of evaluation

Abstract

This article attempts to forecast the pattern of development and bottlenecks during rearrangement of the Russian system of higher education in short- and medium-terms. The authors apply system analysis to study the existing realities of various aspects characterizing successfulness and opportunities to achieve academic leadership by leading Russian universities. This work maps out the existing visually perceived state of innovation ecosystems in some leading Russian universities. The studies cover such aspects of development of modern universities as budgeting and properties of its constituents, ability of universities to efficiently perform research and to use the obtained results, transition to mastering and development of various EdTech methods, policy of educational entities in the field of further education and further vocational education. This work describes the approach offering the use of university rating for foresight evaluation of development of Russian universities. The authors believe that in the nearest future the students will be more independent regarding selection of the required knowledge at universities, aiming at acquiring individually-oriented knowledge; the complex system of interaction between universities and ambient world demonstrates not only the importance of high-quality educational process but also of professionally arranged information communication channels.