WORK ADDRESS
Penza State University
440026, Penza, 40 Krasnaya St.
E-mail: va_skvortsova@mail.ru

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
Doctor of economic sciences, professor

POSITION HELD
Professor of the economic theory and international relations sub-department, Penza State University.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Capital theory
• Intellectual capital
• Knowledge-intensive sector of industry
• Competition and competitive relations
• Economic institutions
• Innovative development of the economy
• Regional economy
• International economy

ACADEMIC AWARDS AND GRANTS
1. Certificate of Honor of the Legislative Assembly of the Penza region (2015)
2. Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation (2011)
3. A Letter of Gratitude from State Regional Center for Standardization, Metrology and Testing in the Penza Region for participation in the program “100 Best Goods of Russia” (2010)
4. Certificate of Honor of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (2008)
5. A Letter of Gratitude from Research Institute for Monitoring the Quality of Education for examination of test training bank of tasks in economics (2010)
6. Laureate of the Competition of the Independent Public Council “100 Best Universities of Russia” for the book “Economic Theory” (KnoRUS Publishing House, 2009)
7. Laureate of the Competition of the National Education Development Fund for the best scientific book (2008, 2010, 2016, 2018)
8.Grant of the Russian State Scientific Foundation: “Problems of achieving sustainable development of depressed regions of Russia” (2002-2004) (co-executor)
9. Grant of the Russian State Scientific Foundation: “Evolutionary theory and overcoming social differentiation of the regions of the Russian Federation” (2000-2002) (co-executor)

TRAINING OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL
Five dissertations for the degree of Candidate of Sciences were defended under the supervision of V.A. Skvortsova: Yagafarova E.F. (2009), Batrakov A.A. (2011), Sokolova O.A. (2011), Tarasova E.M. (2012), Gulyaev G.Yu. (2015)

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Developer and expert of the project “Federal Internet exam in the field of vocational education” of the National Accreditation Agency (2007-2010)

MEMBERSHIP IN EDITORIAL BOARDS OF JOURNALS
• "University proceedings. Volga region. Social sciences"
• "Models, systems, networks in economics, technology, nature and society"

INVITED AND PLENARY REPORTS AT CONFERENCES
1. International Scientific and Practical Conference “Trends in the development of higher education in the modern world”, 09 September 2019, International Innovative University, Sochi. Report; “Education as a Public Good”.
2. International Scientific and Practical Conference “Integration of Science and Practice as a Mechanism for the Development of the Digital Economy”, 18 December 2018, Yaroslavl State Technical University, Yaroslavl. Report: “Investments in education in the Digital Era”.

PUBLICATIONS
• ORCID ID 0000-0001-6555-0597
• Web of Science Researcher ID ABI-2820-2020
• SCOPUS ID 
• Elibrary.ru AuthorID 686096