We carry out research and development. State policy in the field of scientific research and development. Optimized structure of the research enterprise

Order of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation of July 3, 2008 N 305n
"On approval of professional qualification groups of positions for workers in the field of scientific research and development"

With changes and additions from:

Professional qualification group of positions of scientists and heads of structural divisions

Qualification levels	Positions assigned to qualification levels
	scientists	heads of structural divisions
1 qualification level	State expert on intellectual property, state expert on intellectual property II category, junior researcher, researcher	Manager (chief): technical archive, drawing and copying bureau, laboratory (computer and photo-film equipment, office equipment, communications)
2 qualification level	State expert on intellectual property, category I, senior researcher	Head (chief): graduate school, department of scientific and technical information, other structural unit
3 qualification level	Leading state expert on intellectual property, leading researcher	Head (chief) of the research sector (laboratory), part of the research department (laboratory, department); chief (team (group) leader)
4 qualification level	Chief state expert on intellectual property, chief researcher	Head (chief) of research (design), expert department (laboratory, department, sector); scientific secretary
5 qualification level		Head (manager) of a separate division

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* With the exception of positions of heads of structural divisions classified as qualification levels 3 - 5

In order to differentiate the conditions of remuneration, positions of workers in the field of scientific research and development are divided into 3 professional qualification groups: professional qualification group of positions of second-level scientific and technical workers; professional qualification group of positions of scientific and technical workers of the third level; professional qualification group of positions of scientists and heads of structural divisions.

In particular, the professional qualification group of positions for second-level scientific and technical workers includes the positions of design technician, draftsman, and research laboratory assistant. Research positions are included in the professional qualification group of positions for researchers and heads of structural units.

Within each qualification group, positions are grouped by qualification level.

Professional qualification groups are formed based on the level of professional training and qualifications necessary to carry out the relevant professional activity. Taking into account professional qualification groups, the Government of the Russian Federation establishes basic salaries (basic official salaries) and basic wage rates for employees of state and municipal institutions.

Order of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation dated July 3, 2008 N 305n “On approval of professional qualification groups of positions for workers in the field of scientific research and development”

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This order comes into force 10 days after the day of its official publication

This document is amended by the following documents:

Order of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation of December 19, 2008 N 740n

The changes come into force 10 days after the official publication of the said order.

December 5, 2019, Tatyana Golikova chaired a meeting of the organizing committee for the preparation of the International Congress of Mathematicians The Congress will be held July 6–14, 2022 in St. Petersburg.

December 4, 2019, State policy in the field of scientific research and development Awarded the Russian Government Prize in the field of science and technology for 2019 Order of November 29, 2019 No. 2846-r. 131 applicants became award winners in 2019. Prizes were awarded for work in the fields of medicine, energy, geology, production technology, materials science, mechanical engineering, transport, information technology, ecology and agriculture.

November 21, 2019, State policy in the field of scientific research and development Tatyana Golikova and Andrey Fursenko held a meeting of the Presidium of the Council on the implementation of the Federal Scientific and Technical Program for the Development of Genetic Technologies The agenda includes a discussion of the results of the analysis of programs for the creation and development of world-class genomic research centers in terms of purchasing equipment and creating information systems, as well as requirements for the development of the instrument base.

November 12, 2019, State policy in the field of scientific research and development Dmitry Medvedev's trip to the Novosibirsk region and meeting.

October 12, 2019, State policy in the field of scientific research and development Awarded the Russian Government Prize in the field of science and technology for young scientists for 2019 Order of October 7, 2019 No. 2323-r. 25 applicants became award winners in 2019. The prizes, in particular, were awarded for the development and implementation of methods and systems for intelligent control of robots of various types and purposes, an integrated system for ensuring the sustainable life cycle of buildings and structures, and forevacuum plasma electronic sources for the processing and modification of dielectric materials.

September 13, 2019, State policy in the field of scientific research and development Tatyana Golikova and Andrey Fursenko held a meeting of the Council on the implementation of the Federal Scientific and Technical Program for the Development of Genetic Technologies The volume of financial support for the creation and support of genomic research centers for the period 2019–2024 from the federal budget will amount to 11.2 billion rubles.

September 9, 2019, State policy in the field of scientific research and development Dmitry Medvedev spoke at the opening ceremony of the congress.

September 7, 2019, State policy in the field of scientific research and development The size of Russian Government awards in the field of science and technology for young scientists has been increased Resolution of August 31, 2019 No. 1121. Starting from 2020, the monetary portion of the Russian Government awards in the field of science and technology for young scientists has been increased from 500 thousand rubles to 1 million rubles.

August 29, 2019, State policy in the field of scientific research and development Tatyana Golikova chaired a meeting of the Council for State Support for the Creation and Development of World-Class Mathematical Centers At the meeting, the winners of the competitive selection were determined and their creation and development programs were approved.

August 28, 2019, State policy in the field of scientific research and development Alexey Gordeev held a meeting on the creation of a new wintering complex at the Antarctic Vostok station The meeting took place on the eve of the 200th anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica by Russian navigators under the command of Thaddeus Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev.

August 23, 2019, State policy in the field of scientific research and development Indicators for the implementation of the Strategy for Scientific and Technological Development have been established, the dynamics of which are subject to monitoring Order of August 15, 2019 No. 1824-r. 11 indicators have been identified that reflect the progress of implementation of the Strategy in the following areas: the influence of science and technology on the socio-economic development of Russia, including due to the transition to the model of great challenges; the state and performance of the field of science, technology and innovation; quality of state regulation and service provision of scientific, scientific, technical and innovative activities.

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Research and development work (R&D) - a set of works aimed at obtaining new knowledge and practical application when creating a new product or technology.

Study:

• conducting research, developing a technical proposal (advanced project);
• development of technical specifications for experimental design (technological) work.

Development:

• development of a preliminary design;
• development of a technical project;
• development of working design documentation for the production of a prototype;
• production of a prototype;
• testing a prototype;
• documentation processing;
• approval of working design documentation for organizing industrial (serial) production of products.

Supply of products for production and operation:

• adjustment of design documentation for identified hidden deficiencies;
• development of operational documentation.

Repair:

• development of working design documentation for repair work.

Discontinued:

• development of working design documentation for recycling.

An example of the stages of performing OKR

The order of stages of performing design and development work on an optical-electronic device:

1. Study of existing products of this type
2. Study of the element base suitable for building the required product
3. Selection of element base
4. Development of an optical design for a prototype product
5. Development of a structural electrical diagram of a prototype product
6. Development of sketches of the product body
7. Coordination with the customer of the actual technical characteristics and appearance of the product
8. Development of an electrical circuit diagram of the product
9. Study of the production base and capabilities of printed circuit boards production
10. Development of a test printed circuit board for a product
11. Placing an order for the production of a test printed circuit board for the product
12. Placing an order for the supply of element base for the manufacture of a product
13. Placing an order for soldering a test printed circuit board of a product
14. Product test cable development
15. Making a product test cable
16. Product Test PCB Test
17. Writing software for a test printed circuit board of a product and a computer
18. Study of the production base and production capabilities of optical elements
19. Calculation of optical elements of the product taking into account production capabilities
20. Study of the production base and production capabilities of plastic cases, metal elements and hardware
21. Development of the design of the optical box housing of the product, taking into account production capabilities
22. Placing an order for the manufacture of optical elements and the body of the optical box of the product
23. Experimental assembly of the product's optical box with connection of a test printed circuit board
24. Testing the operating modes of the test printed circuit board of the product and the optical box
25. Correction of software, circuit diagram and parameters of the optical part of the product in order to obtain the specified parameters
26. Product body development
27. Development of a printed circuit board based on the actual dimensions of the product body
28. Placing an order for the manufacture of a prototype product body
29. Placing an order for the production of a prototype printed circuit board
30. Wiring and programming the product's printed circuit board
31. Painting the body of the prototype product
32. Manufacturing a prototype cable
33. Final assembly of the product prototype
34. Testing of all parameters and reliability of the product prototype
35. Writing product manufacturing technology
36. Writing a user manual for a product
37. Transfer of technical documentation, software and product prototype to the customer with signing of documents on the end of the contract

Design and development work can be carried out in two forms: A and B. Design and development work in form A is carried out with the simultaneous launch of the developed product into production, in form B - with the subsequent launch of the developed product into production or without launching into production.

Types of R&D

In accordance with regulatory regulations, according to the method of cost accounting, R&D is divided into:

Commodity R&D(current, custom) - work related to the normal activity of the organization, the results of which are intended for sale to the customer.

Capital R&D(initiative, for one’s own needs) - work, the costs of which are investments in long-term assets of the organization, the results of which are used in one’s own production and/or are provided for use by others.

R&D contract

The procedure for performing Commodity R&D is regulated by the contract for the performance of research, development and technological work. The legislation of the Russian Federation distinguishes two types of this agreement:

1. Agreement for the implementation of scientific research work (R&D). Under a research contract, the contractor undertakes to carry out scientific research stipulated by the customer’s technical specifications.
2. Contract for the implementation of development and technological work (R&D). Under the contract for the implementation of R&D, the contractor undertakes to develop a sample of a new product, design documentation for it or a new technology.

The parties to the R&D agreement are the contractor and the customer. The performer is obliged to conduct scientific research personally. It is allowed to involve co-executors in the execution of research work only with the consent of the customer. When performing R&D, the contractor has the right to involve third parties, unless otherwise provided by the contract. The rules on the general contractor and subcontractor apply to the contractor's relations with third parties in the event of their involvement in R&D.

Unlike other types of obligations, R&D contracts are characterized by:

A specific feature of R&D is that for these types of work there is a high risk of not obtaining, for objective reasons, the result established in the technical specifications. The risk of accidental impossibility of fulfilling R&D contracts is borne by the customer, unless otherwise provided by law or contract. The Contractor is obliged to immediately inform the customer about the detected impossibility of obtaining the expected results or about the inappropriateness of continuing the work. The responsibility to prove the impossibility of obtaining the intended result lies with the contractor. The decision to stop work is made by the customer.

When performing Capital R&D, the functions of the customer and the contractor are performed by the same person and, therefore, no contract is required. Thus, the conditions for carrying out Capital R&D are determined by the terms of reference and calendar plan (plan of scientific work), approved by the executive body of the organization and/or the scientific and technical council. The fact of completion of work and the result obtained are established in a technical act approved by the executive body of the organization.

Statistics

Share in R&D expenses in 2013, % of global

According to the Battelle Memorial Institute, global R&D spending in 2011 will increase by 3.6% to US$1.2 trillion.

The first place in terms of R&D volume is occupied by the USA (385.6 billion; 2.7% of its own GDP)

Structure of financing for all types of R&D in 1985

Sources of R&D funding in the USA

Structure of private investment in R&D in the United States

Pension funds and insurance companies	Corporate funds	Others
55 %	10 %	35 %

The role of R&D in modern business

The role of R&D is growing as the bulk of added value in business shifts from the production stage to the development stage. Based on the results of R&D, key decisions are made in high-tech business. Research and development (R&D) for marketing is becoming increasingly important; companies monitor the latest developments of competitors and consumer needs in order to align their own research with them. The increased role of R&D in business processes is reflected in the newly created position in most large Russian companies - R&D director or manager. The functions of the R&D manager include the formation and implementation of the R&D program, the development of a program for innovative development of the enterprise, the organization of technological processes: technology development, design. At the same time, R&D is one of the most difficult areas from a management point of view, because A distinctive feature of most research is the difficult predictability of the final research results and their possible commercialization. As a result, large R&D expenditures do not always guarantee greater profits or greater market share.

See also

Notes

1. GOST 15.105-2001 “System for the development and delivery of products to production. The procedure for carrying out research work and its components”; GOST 15.203-2001 “System for the development and delivery of products to production. The procedure for performing R&D to create products and their components"
2. Accounting Regulations “Accounting for expenses for research, development and technological work” PBU 17/02, approved by Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation dated November 19, 2002 No. 115n.
3. Clause 1 of Article 769 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.
4. Clause 2 of Article 770 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.
5. Clause 1 of Article 772 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, Article 432 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.
6. The sun of science rises over China
7. Knowledge, networks and nations. Global scientific collaboration in the 21st century. The Royal Society
8. | State Internet channel "Russia"
9. Archived October 26, 2013 on the Wayback Machine | T. A. Tormysheva “Is it possible to build a national innovation system in Russia?”
10. Nelson R., National Innovation System. New York, Oxford, 1993.

I wrote this article while working in a state-owned enterprise of a scientific and production nature. This article is aimed at summarizing the current state and structure of research work in the Russian Federation, indicating weaknesses and proposing solutions to optimize the organization of scientific development on a national scale.

1 Current status of the issue

1.1 Implementation of research work today

Scientific research is the source of technologies, materials and mechanisms with the help of which it becomes possible to create products of better quality, at lower cost, to create methods of treating diseases, to fight natural disasters, etc.

However, doing science is a great luxury, since the likelihood of obtaining a practical result from the results of research is very small, and the cost of research can reach colossal amounts due to the need for experimental equipment and raw materials. Thus, only a few commercial companies can afford to maintain their own research department.

The overwhelming majority of scientific research is financed by the State through various funds (RFBR, fund of the Ministry of Education, etc.) and targeted industry programs (Space Program, defense industry development program, etc.).

1.2 What is a scientific work

Throughout the existence of disputes over whether mathematics is a science, whether literature, history or art criticism is a science, many different definitions of the term Science have been formulated. From the point of view of the authors of this article, the most logical definition is K. Popper, according to which a thought is scientific if it goes through three stages:

1) Statement of the question;
2) Formulation of theory;
3) Conducting an experiment that confirms or disproves the theory.

This definition is functional from the point of view of the state, which is the main source of funding for scientific work and requiring maximum efficiency of money spent. If the work has passed the three specified stages, then the work report allows you to:

Clearly see what problem the research work is aimed at solving (under the item “Formulation of the question”);
- use a theory or analytical model that was confirmed during a verification experiment (points “Formulation of a theory” and “Conducting an experiment”) in other works and research, while saving money on local experiments;
- exclude a theory and model refuted during confirmatory experiments when analyzing risks;
- use information about the results of the experiment (item “Conducting an experiment”) when testing other theories and hypotheses, saving money on conducting duplicate experiments.

In practice, in our time, funding is received by scientific research work (R&D), in which there may not be any talk about putting forward and, even more so, testing any theories. Such research can be aimed at systematizing knowledge, developing research methods, studying the properties of materials and the features of technologies. Such research projects may have fundamentally different results. Let's try to classify the results that research work can bring:

Reference result. When research work has produced data on specific procedures or materials. For example, the reference result is the values ​​of the physical and mechanical characteristics of a material or the quality characteristics of a part obtained under certain technological parameters;
- scientific result. When, as a result of research work, a theory was confirmed or refuted. The theory can be in the form of a derived formula or mathematical models that allow one to obtain analytical results with a high degree of convergence with real experiment;
- methodological result. When, as a result of research, optimal methods for conducting research, experiments, and performing work were derived. Optimal techniques can be developed as a secondary product in the development of rational methods for confirming the theory;

1.3 Features of research work today

Duplication of research results. Due to the fact that the formation of topics and directions in different funds and agencies is carried out independently of each other, duplication of work often occurs. What we are talking about is both the duplication of work performed and the duplication of research results. There may also be duplication of work performed with work performed during the existence of the USSR, when a large number of scientific works were carried out.

Difficulty in accessing research results. The research results are documented in technical reports, acts and other reporting documentation, which, as a rule, is stored in printed form on paper in the archives of the customer and the contractor. To obtain this or that report, it is necessary to carry out lengthy correspondence with the executor or customer of the report, but, more importantly, information that this or that report exists in most cases is almost impossible to find. Scientific publications based on research results in specialized journals are not always published, and the accumulated number of studies and a wide range of different publications makes searching for data not published on the Internet incredibly difficult.

Lack of regular funding for search experiments. To create a prototype of innovative technology or develop a new technology (including within the framework of R&D), the performing enterprise must have research results confirming the possibility of realizing a new effect. However, research also requires funding, which must be justified and supported by preliminary experiments. However, scientific departments of universities, scientific institutes and research enterprises do not have regular funding for conducting preliminary and exploratory experiments, as a result of which topics for putting forward new works have to be drawn from the literature, incl. foreign. Consequently, work initiated in this way will always be behind similar foreign developments.

Low interaction between scientific enterprises. Low interaction between universities and scientific enterprises is due to the fact that organizations perceive each other not only as competitors, but also as potential customers - consumers of scientific products. The latter is due to the fact that scientific organizations so far, in the overwhelming majority, earn money not from the results of scientific activity, but from its implementation.

Use in the creation of new technologies and solutions from various branches of knowledge and sciences. The technologies and knowledge that could be obtained by working in only one direction are already known and developed, which can be said with great confidence. Today, new technologies are obtained at the intersection of various methods and sciences, which requires the interaction of scientists from various fields, while there is no active labor interaction between institutions.

2 Conditions for increasing the efficiency of scientific work

The system of conducting and organizing scientific work that exists in our time in the Russian Federation was borrowed from the USSR and has not undergone any significant changes since the formation of the Russian Federation. Today, there are the following aspects of modernizing the system for carrying out scientific work:

Widespread use of personal computers and the Internet to access reference information;
- A large number of accumulated scientific reports existing in printed form;
- Using the achievements of various industries to create innovative technology;
- A developed market for materials and services, which makes it possible to implement almost any exploratory experiment at low cost, before opening a full-scale research project.

3 Optimization of the scientific research system

Based on point 2, the following measures can be taken to increase the efficiency of scientific work:

1) Creation of a unified form “Results of scientific research”, with mandatory publication on the Internet on a special portal after completing research work.
2) In the technical specifications (TOR) for carrying out research work, describe the result that should be obtained in the course of the work.
3) Introduce an optimized structure for the organization of research enterprises, based on the functioning of three divisions: a division for posing problems and questions, a division for putting forward scientific theories/hypotheses, and a division for implementing experiments (technical division).
4) Periodic allocation of funds to scientific organizations for the implementation of search experiments.

Below we will describe in more detail about each measure.

3.1 Creation of a unified form of research results

Given the large number of scientific reports accumulated in the Soviet and post-Soviet period, the disunity of funds and research organizations, and the widespread use of the Internet, it is rational to create a single portal of scientific research results for a convenient and quick search for reports on completed work, which would be accessible to both scientific researchers and research organizations, as well as officials checking the relevance of a particular work.

As indicated in paragraph 1.2, it is more rational to draw up the form of the result of scientific research in three points:

1) What problem was the research aimed at solving?
2) What hypothesis was put forward;
3) How the hypothesis was tested.

For each tested hypothesis, its own individual form (separate file) must be compiled, which, at the same time, is supplemented with information about the authors of the study and the organization that the authors represent, with keywords for quick and easy search. At the same time, the system will allow you to leave feedback from other scientists about the reliability of a particular study and evaluate the rating of authors and organizations. It is worth repeating that the forms of unconfirmed theories will also be of great importance, preventing other researchers from going down the wrong path.

The form of a reference study, in which not some hypothesis was tested, but “what we will get” (properties, effect) with given parameters (properties, modes, etc.), must have a distinctive form reflecting quantitative or qualitative characteristics were received.

When creating this system, an important role will be played by stimulating the replenishment of the database with reports that have already been completed and preserved in printed form. In this case, formulas and models that are not confirmed by experimental research are not of interest to the system.

Supplementing such a base with studies of the classics of physics and mechanics will have great educational value.

3.2 Regulation of the results of research work in the technical specifications

The result of research work, as a rule, is a final report on research work, which, at the same time, has a rather arbitrary form and can include from 20 to 500 or more pages, which makes the analysis of such a report by other scientists and practitioners difficult.

If a unified system for generating research results is created, described in paragraph 3.1., then it is advisable in the technical specifications for research to present requirements for the results of work in accordance with the system standard in the form of:

Reference result in the form of characteristics, parameters, properties of a given object or process determined during work;
- A scientific result in the form of the results of testing a set of theories specified in the technical specifications or put forward by the performer in the course of working on the problem (question) formulated in the technical specifications.

At the same time, it is not correct to set research methods and work organization as the ultimate goal of research. Methods and programs must be the result of the development of specialists qualified in this area as part of organizational work or work on standardization and systematization, or be a by-product of research when achieving a scientific or reference result.

Also, the terms of reference for state-funded research work must describe the obligation to publish research results in a single database.

3.3 Optimized structure of the research enterprise

Based on the rationality of compiling scientific thought from the three components question-theory-test, we can propose a structure for the organization of a scientific research organization, consisting of three main divisions: a division for searching for current problems, a division for formulating theories, and a division for experimental verification.

3.3.1 Division for searching for current tasks

This unit should be entrusted with the work of reviewing and constantly monitoring current issues in a given industry or area of ​​activity.

The division will have to carry out both analytical work, which consists of studying specialized literature, statistical research, applications from enterprises to carry out some kind of development, and creative work, which consists of independently searching for problems, the solution of which can bring commercial profit and benefit to society.

The department should include analytically minded people with experience in various fields.

3.3.2 Theory production division

This unit is responsible for developing solutions and theories that should provide answers to questions raised or offer solutions to voiced difficulties.

The unit should include people with a broad outlook on various technologies, as well as great theoretical knowledge. Unit employees must constantly study scientific publications and articles.

The two main types of work that this unit must produce are the generation of new theories or solutions, and the analysis and testing of proposed solutions for duplication with already tested ones or for contradiction with already confirmed theories.

3.3.3 Experimental Verification Unit

This unit is responsible for verification: confirmation or refutation of incoming theories. The unit should include laboratory technicians qualified to work with existing laboratory equipment, as well as model production and metalworking masters capable of producing the necessary experimental equipment or equipment.

The unification of research organizations according to the above principle will contribute to their greater cooperation and interaction. Testing of a scientific theory formulated at one enterprise can be carried out in the experimental testing department of another organization that has the necessary laboratory equipment, according to a unified application.

3.4 Funding for exploratory experiments

Small but regular funding of scientific organizations under the article “Performing exploratory experiments”, allocated from the enterprise’s own funds or by the state, will create the necessary basis for the implementation of experimental ideas and preliminary testing of hypotheses.

In the course of low-cost exploratory experiments, erroneous hypotheses that may be included in an application for funding under a contract or grant are eliminated; As a result of the experience gained, new and original solutions are born that are used to create innovative technology.

Conclusions

To increase the efficiency of spending on research and development work, it is recommended:

Creation of a unified database with research results presented in one form, including three sections: the question in the direction of which the theory was proposed, the theory or solution that was proposed and the result of testing the theory;
- regulation of the result of research in the technical specifications in terms of determining what type of result should be obtained: reference or scientific;
- bring the organization of scientific enterprises to a structure that includes three departments: a division for searching for current problems, a division for formulating theories, and a division for experimental verification;
- regularly finance search experiments.