Home – Home – Jornals – Professional Education in the Modern World 2017 number 4

Activity of higher education institutions in Russia as the unitary non-profit organizations created for implementation of scientific, educational and cultural functions is supplemented with a new mission today - a transfer of scientific knowledge and technologies to the sphere of regional economy. Along with Federal and Research higher education institutions, new types of the universities - Flagship Universities are designed to respond to the requests of local community for social and economic regional development. The major tasks for them are creation of the innovative educational environment with development of various forms of social and educational partnership, and operation of educational space through expansion of interaction with social, public and economic institutes. Unlike the classical university model of V. Humboldt, assuming that a main objective of the university - obtaining new scientific knowledge, the model of the enterprise university, from the point of view of B. Clark ("Entrepreneurial university", 1998), reflects new function of the university: to carry out concrete inquiries of business and the state, and includes three important elements: "Risk" of new practice acceptance (such as technologies transfer, diversification of finance sources, stimulation of scientific activity, etc.); "Innovations as basis of business activity"; "Enterprise culture". Due to the transition to the new university model which is based on interaction with regional community, there are changes in administrative system, providing that external partner relations are extended for the solution of social and economic problems of the region.