Education in the regions has to be in tune with political, economical and industrial ambitions of a region. If it meets the requirements of a region, then universities provide educational services highly demanded by regional economy. If not, there will be a certain delay in regional economic development. Human resources can accelerate or slow down economic growth of a region.

Being a center of highly developed educational and scientific resources, Tomsk can supply onto the market either research results or completed technologies as developed research results.

The word ‘to sell’ is the most important here. Universities need to learn how to live without budgetary funding. Nowadays, many quite decent universities live the way they used to do in the times of the Soviet Union. They do not generate anything. In Tomsk, you can unite your efforts by creating the Consortium. This institution should be run by a professional manager and not a successful scientist. A manager knows how to deal under real economy. Universities have to focus on producing those things that can be bought. Thus, they need to study markets and be able to be marketed in compliance with market rules.

When there is the demand in scientific schools, then these schools can appear. Today’s Russian economy does not give a sign of the need in scientific schools. The Soviet Union needed science to maintain country’s defense ability. All scientific schools of that time worked on military tasks. Natural sciences, engineering, mathematics, physics were necessary and, therefore, development in science was considerable. With innovation economy market itself indicates specific scientific areas that need development. Before, all industries and science worked for orders placed by the Soviet government. Today, there is no centralized system to specify goods for manufacturing. Today it is up to the market to identify which scientific schools you need to bring back to life, where you need to invest money, which industries can provide scientific research orders.

Former Soviet universities never analyzed markets. Nobody cared about building market relations, setting market missions and formulating market tasks. Another important issue is to be mentioned here. Tomsk universities still seem to know very little about job market. They train specialists as they used to do. Universities think that it is done the right way. They pay little attention to demands of companies and organizations hiring these specialists. To change this situation, it is vitally important to create offices in Russian universities responsible for market interaction in terms of human resources issue and scientific products development.