On the Legal Regulation of Science
The analysis of legal documents in the field of science is carried out. The main areas of analysis include the following blocks: the subject of the scientific sector; the main participants in the process of production and consumption of scientific knowledge, their market and non-market relations; the management system of the scientific sector, including provision of the resources to the scientific sector. The analysis of the existing documents (laws, decrees of the President of the Russian Federation, resolutions of the Government of the Russian Federation, orders of ministries, etc.) was carried out for each of the selected blocks. The influence of the legal documents on the solution of certain issues of the organization of scientific activity is analyzed, and possible directions for improvement regulatory legal acts to optimize the functioning of the scientific sector are proposed.