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The relevance of the formulated problems and proposed solutions in the report and further discussion is manifested by the assignment of the President of the Russian Federation V. V. Putin to design implementation arrangement tools for the long-term Strategy for Russia's Science and Technology Development by autumn 2016. In addition to the tool for implementation of research in priority areas of Russian Scientiic and Technological Complex development it is necessary to design relevant infrastructure. This brings forth a problem of eficient engagement of existing infrastructure assets into research activities and their capacity development in accordance with the existing scientiic tasks. Core facilities (abbreviated in Russian as CKP), which provide multiple access to scientiic equipment, research methods and expertise of employees of research and educational institutions for a wide range of interested parties, is one of infrastructure classes actively supported by the government. Effective public support of CKP and their orientation to external users allow to consider them as the second level infrastructure support to the research in priority areas of Russian Scientiic and Technological Complex development. As the irst level infrastructural support we consider infrastructure of a Centre of Excellence – the leading research institution in a priority area. To involve resources of research institutions into innovation processes by means of establishing CKP at their premises it is suggested to compensate CKP costs of servicing external users from the budget of Centre of Excellence, which is formed mainly from public funds. That is how the principle of multichannel funding is realized in connection with CKP, which is a strong incentive for research institutions to contribute to infrastructural support of research initiated by a Centre of Excellence. Implementation of the proposed 2-level system of infrastructural support to research means a wider understanding of CKP role in innovation processes, evolutionary ...

The article presents approaches to enhance the eficiency of multi-user mode of access to research facilities, research methodologies and to scientiic and technical human resources in research and education organizations Core Shared Research Facility (CSRF), which integrate organization's methodological, human and material resources to provide R&D services, are considered as organizational forms of the multi-user mode of access. The article focuses on the approaches used by CSRF and their back-up organizations to compensate low demand for innovation from economic agents; lack of funds for scientiic equipment maintenance; in-house conlicts resulting from contradictions between a linear organizational structure and the project approach. The abovementioned problems are responsible for the decreasing effectiveness of Core research facilities while their resource capacity is growing. The "response" of CSRF to the problems consists in inding an exceptional market niche and in raising operational effectiveness. The irst CSRF competitiveness factor is based on the comprehensiveness of services achieved through integration of all the types of resources – up-to-date research methodologies, experience of scientiic and technical personnel, present-date equipment. A unique position against competitors and clients enables CSRF to carve out its' own niche in the sphere of intellectual services and to establish an association link between itself and successful solution of speciic R&D tasks. The second CSRF competitiveness factor, i. e. high operational effectiveness, is based on the optimization of general types of activities by means of inding new approaches to their execution, which relieve operational problems. The concluding part presents suggestions as to how to disseminate the examined approaches to the enhancing the eficiency of multi-user research facilities and the government support, and thus to transform CSRF into substantial entry points for engaging research organizations into innovation and manufacturing ...

The round table discussion was devoted to the development problems facing such scientiic infrastructure facilities of the Russian Federation as the Centers of Shared Multi-Access to Research Equipment (hereinafter CKP) and Unique Research Facilities (hereinafter UNU). The round table participants included representatives of CKP, UNU and the relevant back-up organizations with a long history of successful management of their Centers and Facilities. The Keynote report sought to frame the major problems of CKP and UNU development, indicated the causes of these problems, identiied guidelines to their solution through the strengthening of governmental support to scientiic infrastructure. According to the author of the report, the most challenging issues of CKP and UNU development include: – inadequate capacity building rates and modest performance of the core centers and facilities due to low research activity of potential R&D customers; – conlict of interest between CKP/UNU and their back-up organizations, which are primarily interested to use their centers and facilities for internal research with whatever resources remain to meet orders of external users;76 Круглый стол – reluctance of CKP and UNU staff to provide services, which may not include a research component; – unreasonable indicators of CKP/UNU capacity and performance, which relect performance of back-up organizations instead. To remedy the speciied problems, the speaker suggests: – to speed up the process of legal recognition for CKP and UNU status criteria and to perform conformance inspection of these items of scientiic infrastructure and eliminate those CKP and UNU, which were established just to get access to public funds; – to expand CKP status beyond the scope of research institutions for independent legal units with competitive research equipment and highly skilled research staff; – to include CKP/UNU performance indicators into the list of performance indicators of back-up organizations in an attempt to promote CKP and UNU activities ...