Immersion of mankind into the information society, paradoxically, enlarges the spaces of inaccessible and simultaneously proposes new technological possibilities for reducing the uncertainty of events and support of the right decisions.

Consolidation of partners’ competencies for achieving economic effect positively influences innovation.

Prize-winners of the annual program of the Institute for Economic Strategies “Characters of the century„ for year 2011.

In terms of consumption Russia was seeking to “catch up and surpass„ the West, but was doing so in a unique style of glare and poverty “all in one„.

Development and approval of certain strategic planning documents today is irrelevant without development and legislative consolidation of the entire complex of documents, tools and organization of strategic planning.

World development will seek to limit the material goods and to replace them increasingly by non-material benefits (knowledge, new information).

Today it is appropriate to think: whether modernization can be accomplished under the conditions of spiritual and moral crisis, cultural degradation of the country, of a depression of immensely large proportion of the population?

There is no need to prove the importance of such social indicators as cost of living, average income and average wage, the minimum hourly wage, the poverty threshold as the main characteristics and driving forces of modern progress. But precisely in this area there is the considerable backlog of State Statistics and statistical science.

Rapid economic growth of China, India and other largepopulation countries creates the problem of employment in developed countries and countries with transition economies, including Russia.

Creation of Common Economic Space — is primarily an opportunity to develop free competition and strengthen innovative activity in the common space.