National Research University – Higher School of Economics

About: National Research University – Higher School of Economics is a education organization based out in Moscow, Russia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Politics. The organization has 12873 authors who have published 23376 publications receiving 256396 citations.

Glocal targeted open innovation: challenges, opportunities and implications for theory, policy and practice

Abstract: In line with the growing number and type of innovation sources and partners, companies’ institutional set up to manage the potential problems of multiple sources and partners for innovation is increasingly challenged to develop and maintain effective and efficient corporate innovation activities. The paper highlights recent developments of open innovation in companies. Findings are based on company case studies involving companies from different industries and company representatives. It shows that open innovation is actually a paradigm long practised but the main efforts are targeted to continuously developing the organization and managerial model of companies to meet the new innovation challenges.

The category of Z2n-supermanifolds

Abstract: In physics and in mathematics Z2n-gradings, n ≥ 2, appear in various fields. The corresponding sign rule is determined by the “scalar product” of the involved Z2n-degrees. The Z2n-supergeometry exhibits challenging differences with the classical one: nonzero degree even coordinates are not nilpotent, and even (respectively, odd) coordinates do not necessarily commute (respectively, anticommute) pairwise. In this article we develop the foundations of the theory: we define Z2n-supermanifolds and provide examples in the ringed space and coordinate settings. We thus show that formal series are the appropriate substitute for nilpotency. Moreover, the class of Z2•-supermanifolds is closed with respect to the tangent and cotangent functors. We explain that any n-fold vector bundle has a canonical “superization” to a Z2n-supermanifold and prove that the fundamental theorem describing supermorphisms in terms of coordinates can be extended to the Z2n-context.

Limit Theorems for Translation Flows

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to obtain an asymptotic expansion for ergodic integrals of translation flows on flat surfaces of higher genus (Theorem 1) and to give a limit theorem for these flows (Theorem 2).

Skills Shortages and Training in Russian Enterprises

Abstract: In the transition to a market economy, the Russian workforce underwent a wrenching period of change, with excess supply of some industrial skills coexisting with reports of skills shortages by many enterprises. This paper uses data from the Russia Competitiveness and Investment Climate Survey and related local research to gain insight into the changing supply and demand for skills over time, and the potential reasons for reported staffing problems and skills shortages, including labor turnover, compensation policies, and the inhibiting effects of labor regulations. It discusses in-service training as an enterprise strategy for meeting staffing and skills needs, and presents evidence on the distribution, intensity, and determinants of in-service training in Russia. It investigates the productivity and wage outcomes of in-service training, and the supportive role of training in firms' research and development and innovative activities. A final section concludes with some policy implications of the findings.