Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Olga V. Bogacheva Author-Email: bogacheva@nifi.ru Author-Workplace-Name: Financial Research Institute, Moscow 127006, Russia Author-Name: Olesya A. Feoktistova Author-Email: feoktistova@nifi.ru Author-Workplace-Name: Financial Research Institute, Moscow 127006, Russia Title: State R&D Assignments: Approach to Determining their Budgets Based Normative Costs Abstract: In 2016 theauthors conducted a trial test to verify the validity of a methodological approach to determining the normative costs of R&D based on labor costs. The purpose of the test was to provide evidence that would support the proposed methodological guidelines for federal and regional executive bodies performing the functions and exercising the authorities of founding agencies with respect to the research institutions on forming state R&D assignments based on normative R&D costs. The paper describes the trial-tested methodological approaches to determining the labor costs (workload) of R&D works, approaches to grouping costs and determining group normative costs. Classification-JEL: G28, H82, L32, O38 Keywords: normative costs, group normative cost, state assignment for the delivery of works/services, R&D, labor costs (workload) Journal: Finansovyj žhurnal — Financial Journal Pages: 62-70 Issue: 6 Year: 2016 Month: December File-URL: http://www.nifi.ru/images/FILES/Journal/Archive/2016/6/Statii/fm_2016_6_05.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:fru:finjrn:160605:p:62-70