The Inventing the Future symposium. Session, Past Experience in the Contours of the Future. From left: Yevgenia Dolgova, Doctor of History, Professor, Director of the Center of History of Russian Science and Scientific and Technological Development, Russian State University of Humanities, and Yekaterina Streltsova, Ph.D. (Sociology), Director of the Center for Statistics and Monitoring of Science and Innovation, Institute of Strategic Research and the Economics of Knowledge, Higher School of Economics.