Post-Reform Science: Global Trends and Local Specifics

The article describes the key points of the discussion on the «epochal break» in science, its transition to the «post-academic» stage associated with commercialization and the rise of the pragmatic approach to planning, funding and evaluation of research results, which leads to a new image of modern science. The patterns are illustrated by the example of processes taking place in modern Russian (post-Soviet) science.

Keywords: post-academic science, commercialization, transformation, image of science, epochal break.