Abstract
Institute of Economics and industrial Engineering SB RAS celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. Director of IEIE Prof. Dr. Valery A. Kryukov during his interview talks about the fate of scientific schools that have contributed to institutes fame around the world in the Soviet period, reflects on IEIEs place in the history of modern economic science, formulates his position with regard to competition and collaboration with national and foreign scientific organizations, tells about the most promising modern developments of the institute.
