“Qualified Customer” - Demand Management Model for Research and Development

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of a "qualified customer" model development in Russia as a relatively new tool of state science and technology policy aiming to improve the efficiency of state and extrabudgetary R & D expenditures, as well as to increase the level of commercialization of intellectual activity. The main conceptual provisions of the "qualified customer" model suitable to Russian conditions are identified based on the analysis of Russian and foreign experience in the development of the R & D sector, numerous approaches and attitudes to the subject.