On the Issue of the Organizational and Legal Form of a Research Consortium

Abstract

The implementation of state-significant tasks in the field of scientific and technological development implies the need to apply effective options for legal regulation of relations arising within the framework of innovative cooperation and technology transfer, as well as the search for optimal ways of legal registration of emerging structures and formations. The concept of technological development for the period up to 2030 provides for the consolidation of a new organizational and legal form in Russian legislation in order to integrate research and production and technological activities — a research consortium, which is entrusted with the mission of implementing large-scale projects. The article highlights the features inherent in such associations, and substantiates the insufficiency of existing civil law models for their adequate regulation. The possible means of legal support for research consortia are also considered, taking into account the possibility of their formation on a contractual basis and as a subject with the rights of a legal entity, including the directions for the development of legislation in order to adequately organize research consortia and effectively regulate their activities.