Competitiveness and the Nature of the Economic Model of the University: Empirical Patterns of the implementation of the Priority 2030 Program

The relevance of the work is due to the complication of the quasi-competition model formed in Russian higher education, the severity and resource intensity of the tasks set by the state for universities not only to attract the resources and competencies of key stakeholder groups, but also to choose a strategy for developing competitiveness relevant to the chosen economic model, to develop a scientifically based approach to the formation of parameters of the economic model of a higher educational institution. A number of government support projects are being consistently implemented in Russia, including the Priority 2030 program, which takes into account the lessons and difficulties of its predecessors. However, with a sufficient number of studies focused on various aspects of the development of higher education, the issues of the coordinated choice of the development strategy and economic model by universities remain insufficiently studied.

The subject of the study is the organizational and economic relations that arise in the process of forming and adjusting the economic model of the university, consistent with its strategic goals and objectives. The purpose of the work is to establish the features of the economic models of universities participating in the Priority 2030 program and applicants for participation in it in order to identify its empirical patterns.

The article provides a typology of economic models of universities. The high stability of research universities with highly paid staff is shown, and strategic risk groups are identified. The proposals on the choice of the economic model of the university are formulated in accordance with the orientation and structuring of the strategic planning process.

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