TOMSK, Dec 6 – RIA Tomsk, Evgenia Plankina. Tomsk State University (TSU) and Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) took the third and fourth places respectively in the first Russian rating of efficiency of innovative activities of universities, it is reported on the website of Russian Venture Company (RVC).
It is specified that the rating was prepared by experts of RVC and the Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO). Within monitoring experts analysed activity of 40 federal universities of the National Research Universities program and the 5-100 project.
"National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, ITMO University, Tomsk State University, Tomsk Polytechnic University and Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University were among leaders of innovative activities", – it is said in the message.
It is noted that the efficiency evaluation of the universities was carried out on three groups of indicators. The first estimated the innovative and entrepreneurial environment of a university, including the number of residents of business incubators. The second estimated amount of the raised funds for research and development works, the number of small enterprises, their investments and income. The third estimated influence of a higher education institution on the external environment.Universities showed the weakest results in the block of a transfer of technologies. However, higher education institutions play not the last role in social and economic life of a region.
It is added that the carried-out monitoring had pilot character, further it is planned to enhance its technique, to conduct negotiations with rating agencies concerning a possibility of development of subratings of innovative activities of universities in their structure.