Universal Science in Russia: Transferring of Western Model and Potential Risks

The paper keeps the analytical review of main support mechanisms for universities’ R&D development in some OECD countries and their comparison with the certain measures in Russia. It is found that the Russia public R&D policy has accepted some foreign approaches to advance in university science. This coincidence takes place due to the common problem of low-level corporation demands for research results achieved by universities. Applied to the Russian university and non-university R&D sectors the “predatorprey” model creates a researchers’ number forecast up to 2020. Particularly, it unveils the “university bubble” that will burst out in 2018 and tend to destroy the Russian R&D sector as a whole. The key reason of the crisis is a redundant concentration of researchers in universities when they have no perspectives to move to corporate or academic science. It makes actual nowadays forming effective mechanisms of intersector researchers’ mobility. However, launching such mechanisms and, hence, prevention of the “university bubble” will happen, if the corporate and academic R&D sectors are organized in a new much more effective way than the current one.