Dr. Irina G. Dezhina

An article by CRDF Consultant Irina Dezhina and Advisory Council member Loren Graham, published in the December 16 issue of Science magazine, describes the successes and struggles of new science foundations in Russia.

"Russian basic science is still at a very high level, but when the current generation of teachers retires, the experience may be lost," warns Irina G. Dezhina, senior researcher at the Institute for the Economy in Transition in Moscow.

"Russian basic science is still at a very high level, but when the current generation of teachers retires, the experience may be lost," warns Irina G. Dezhina, senior researcher at the Institute for the Economy in Transition in Moscow.

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Irina G. DezhinaSenior Research Fellow at the Institute for the Economy in Transition in Moscow, Russia.Dr. Dezhina studied at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies as a Regional Exchange Scholar in 1994 and she received a Fulbright scholarship in 1997 to study at the "Science, Technology and Society" program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dr. Dezhina is the author of over 80 publications, among which are: The Slow Pace of Reform of Fundamental Science in Russia and Ukraine, coauthored with Paul Josephson and published in Problems of Post-Communism; the monograph The International Science Foundation: The Preservation of Basic Science in the Former Soviet Union; Is Russian Science Recovering?; and Is Russia Developing a Commercial Culture for High Technology? in Research and Technology Management, 2001, coauthored with Loren Graham.
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Dr. Dezhina received her Candidate of Science (Ph.D.) degree in Economics from the Moscow Institute of National Forecasting in 1992.In addition to her position at the Institute for the Economy in Transition, Dr. Dezhina is currently a part time consultant for the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation.

"It looks like monopolization of finance," says Irina Dezhina, an expert on science policy at the Institute for the Economy in Transition in Moscow , who notes that the nanotech program will receive three times more state funding than the rest of Russia 's scientists put together.
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"Even if you're a motivated researcher who wants to start a business, you face huge problems" says Dezhina.In the U.S. the government provides $2 billion each year to start new companies through the Small Business Innovation Research Program.In Russia , she notes, the equivalent government program has a budget of just $40 million a year.

Irina DezhinaConsultant, US Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF)

Irina Dezhina is senior research fellow at the Institute for the Economy in Transition, Moscow, and a consultant to the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union.She received her Ph.D. in economics (science policy studies) in 1992 from the Institute for National Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences.In 1994 she was regional exchange scholar at the Kennan Institute for advanced Russian studies and in 1997 she was a Fulbright scholar in the program "Science, Technology, and Society," at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.In 1999 she worked in the United States as a science policy analyst at SRI International in Washington, DC.Dr. Dezhina has over 90 publications in Russian and foreign press, including monograph on the analysis of tendencies and impact of foreign support for Russian science (1996, in Russian), and the history of the International Science Foundation ("The Role and Impact of the International Science Foundation in Supporting Science in Russia" - 2000, in English and Russian).

CRDF Consultant Irina Dezhina and Advisory Council member Loren Graham, published a study in the December 16 issue of Science magazine, describing the successes and struggles of new science foundations in Russia.

Other CRDF staff involved with the Kazan conference included Natalia Pipia, a senior program manager, Sergey Egorov, the director of CRDF's Moscow office, and Irina Dezhina, a consultant from Moscow, as well as Nikolai Gorshkov, a Nizhny Novgorod-based consultant.

Other study co-authors included: Judyth Twigg, interim director and associate professor at the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University, Svetlana Ancker, a former CGP associate program manager at CRDF, and Irina Dezhina, a senior research fellow with the Russian Institute for the Economy in Transition and a consultant for CRDF.