Skolkovo Moscow School of Management - Research

Research

Skolkovo research strategy and activities will be based on Centres of Excellence (COEs), with each of them focusing on a particular area of study and drawing its intellectual capital from different academic disciplines. The output performed by each centre will include publications that will be integrated into Skolkovo's educational programs.

Centres of Excellence (COEs):

• Skolkovo Institute for Emerging Market Studies (SIEMS) based in Beijing, China

Leading Think Tank on Fast-Moving Economies headed by Professor Seung Ho "Sam" Park

SIEMS aims to be a leading think tank on fast-moving economies, with a special emphasis on Russia, China, and India. The Institute focuses on providing guidance to the society, corporate managers, and policy makers through knowledge creation across a broad range of areas including macro economy and public policy, industry and technology, and corporate strategies.

• Skolkovo Infrastructure Research Centre (SIRC)

SIRC is moving quickly to inaugurate four streams of work on the broad landscape of infrastructure-related research in the developing world. These four initiatives are:

1. to launch deals with the issue of tertiary education in the developing world. The purpose of the initiative is to evaluate the performance of tertiary institutions in developing countries and develop the proper metrics for measuring the educational (i.e. both skill and capacity building) performance of these institutions;
2. to explore the growth and evolution of financial infrastructure in the developing world;
3. to design and start to populate a taxonomy of network configuration that sorts real-world experience using a variety of variables and aggregate consistent data over time on performance-related outcomes in developing economy environments;
4. to a distinctive macroeconomic line of approach to cutting-edge issues in the broad area of physical infrastructure in the developing world – roads, bridges, electricity grids, logistics systems, and the like. The research will focus on the so-called "smart" infrastructure, i.e. impeding extensive systems of information technology and sensors into such physical infrastructure. The results of this work will be made available through normal scholarly channels, including curriciulum development and seminars and conferences. Also, there will be equal emphasis on deploying SIRC research through hands-on workshops, advisory engagements, pedagogical interventions, “master classes,” and other such practitioner-focused activities.

Skolkovo research projects completed to date:

• "Skolkovo Rankings of Russian multinational enterprises" – a quantitative study of Russia's leading multinational enterprises, published in 2008 and 2007.
• Concept development of the Federal University in Ural, Russia (2008).
• "Russian Capital Market. Facts and Events" – analytical review of Russia's capital market published two times a year. The project is prepared in cooperation with the National Association of Securities Market Participants (NAUFOR).