The Russian higher education system is based on certain number of large state universities managed and financed by the Ministry of Education and Science. They can also be considered a special type of corporation that needs to undergo organisational change in order to become the pillars of a national innovation system.
To describe the strategy of Russian university system development, managers use the three-stage roadmap of change from the Training University, or University 1.0, concentrating on HR training, to the Entrepreneurial University, or University 3.0 that needs to become cornerstone of the innovation system as the key source of innovative technology startups.
