Current trends in the construction of scientific consortia

Some of the most notable practices and some current trends in the search, development of organizational and legal forms of association of organizations for the consolidation of resources aimed at obtaining new scientific and technical results are considered. The features of the policy of the leading states in the formation and coordination of the functioning of research consortia, including the European Union in the implementation of the Horizon 2020 framework program and the Horizon Europe program that replaces it, are shown. The foreign experience and the results of research on the problems of cooperation of scientific, educational and industrial organizations on the basis of the institute of consortia, as well as the relatively short Russian experience in using this form of cooperation, are analyzed

Keywords: forms of association of activities, consortia, research and development

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