ROLE OF THE UNIVERSITIES IN FORMATION OF CONDITIONS OF GLOBAL TECHNOLOGICAL LEADERSHIP OF RUSSIA
Authors devoted the article to assessment of a contribution of the universities to innovative development of national economy. Measures of the state support of scientific research, including mechanisms of competitive financing, direct to growth of their effectiveness. There are four main models of the organization of management of research activity of higher education institution. The traditional model characterized by low organizational and administrative flexibility is prevailing at the Russian universities. The model of the research university differing in accurate differentiation of educational, scientific and administrative subsystems focuses on maintenance of scientific reputation of higher education institution at national and international level. The higher education institutions applying corporate model of management of research activity focused on carrying out applied researches and self-sufficiency of scientific work. The rational combination of research institute and science and technology park within technological model aims at commercialization of results of research and development. The directions of researches creating conditions of ensuring global technological leadership of Russia by 2035 are in the program of measures «A national technological initiative», however only about 30% of scientific and technical developments of higher education institutions and the scientific organizations correspond of Higher education institutions take the second place on number among the organizations which are carrying out research and development in Russia, the third place on number of staff occupied with research and development. At the same time at higher education institutions there is the deficiency of experts in the field of innovative activity, decrease both the total number of graduate students, and finished a postgraduate study with defense of a thesis. Means of the state remain the main source of internal costs of higher education institutions of research and development still. The most part of expenses are the share of such spheres as sciences about lives and information and telecommunication systems. Higher education institutions allocate more than a half of funds for applied researches. For the purpose of ensuring growth of their contribution to creation of conditions for global technological leadership of Russia the aiming at commercialization of results of high school science presents as the main direction of improvement of mechanisms of management of research activity of higher education institutions. The research of key indicators of innovative activity of higher education institutions of Russia allowed to give an assessment of a contribution of the modern universities to innovative development of the country.