Using the Organizational Balance Method for Transforming the Management of Scientific Activities in a University

The main aim of this article is to describe the application of the organizational balance method to diagnose and evaluate the state of scientific research organization in contemporary Russian universities. Despite the widespread view of the modern university as a research-oriented institution, only a relatively small portion of universities have been able to organizationally embrace coherent forms of educational and research activities. In the majority of universities, not only the lack of resources for scientific research, but also the evident dominance of educational activities as resource-generating over scientific endeavors in all possible forms, leads to the stagnation of educational program reorganization processes and drifts away from solving real-world problems. The authors perceive a solution to this predicament in more active experimentation with new autonomous, interdisciplinary, and networked forms of organizing the interaction between education and science in the university.