Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Olesya A. Feoktistova Author-Email: feoktistova@nifi.ru Author-Workplace-Name: Financial Research Institute, Moscow 127006, Russia Title: Planning of the Research Costs: the Project-based Approach Abstract: This article is devoted to the problems of the improvement of the research quality and the efficiency of planning of government expenditures on research. The paper analyses the foreign and Russian practices of planning of expenditures on research and considers the development perspectives of competitive mechanisms of the expenditure planning in Russia. The author makes conclusions, that the implementation necessity of the project-based approach and competitive principles in research project expenditure planning are needed regardless of the research funding mechanism. Classification-JEL: O30, O32, I23 Keywords: science and technology government policy, research work, scientific organization, financial support for research activities, economic feasibility Journal: Finansovyj žhurnal — Financial Journal Pages: 69-80 Issue: 1 Year: 2014 Month: March File-URL: http://www.nifi.ru/images/FILES/Journal/Archive/2014/1/08_1_2014.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:fru:finjrn:140108:p:69-80