Korosteleva L.Yu. Universities of Russia’s technopoles in the new modern times. Law enforcement monitoring. 2025. No 2 (55). Pp. 106-116. DOI: 10.24412 ...

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Abstract

Purpose of the study: studying and analysing the education systems of technopoles, with special attention to higher education institutions (HEI), their forms of ownership and institutional affiliation, as well as to comparing the main areas of training in HEIs and the technopole specialisation. Methods used in the study: analysis of laws and regulations, official websites of technopoles and HEIs in their territory, statistical data and materials of sociological studies, comparative analysis of students’ curricula and specialisation of technopoles, as well as of university rating position and their involvement in the strategies of socio-economic development of technopoles. Study findings: universities of Russia’s technopoles as a part of the country’s innovation system are considered. Regional cities with the official status of technopole (‘naukograd’) were selected for analysis: Biysk, Koltsovo, Michurinsk, Obninsk, and Dubna near Moscow, all rather distant from the capital. The technopoles’ specialisation was compared with the main curricula of students studying in the technopoles’ universities. It was found that in all considered technopoles (with the exception of Koltsovo in Novosibirsk Oblast) there is at least one HEI, and a public one at that, whose education programme corresponds to the specialisation of the technopole itself. HEIs of the technopoles are mostly branches of universities from other cities. Leading positions in university ratings for a number of main HEIs with branches in technopoles are noted, and unification processes in technopoles’ higher education systems are identified. It is noted that the potential of technopoles is currently insufficiently used for developing the education system and the HEIs themselves hold on to their well-established positions, while the current situation requires a more efficient and coordinated interaction of different actors both inside the technopole and in interacting with real economy. Practical value: characterisations of HEIs of regional technopoles are presented where universities embody an amalgam of educational, technological, and industrial elements which allows to define technopoles as a special economic zone with a transfer of scholarly knowledge into innovative products and has a scholarly and practical importance due to specific features of organising conditions for lifelong learning in the context of technopoles.