A. M. Nosonov. Productive and Technological Innovation Infrastructure of the Regions of Russia

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15507/2413-1407.107.027.201903.436-460

Introduction. In the modern world, socio-economic and political leadership of a country is based on the generation of new knowledge, its commercialization and use in all areas of human activity, it being an important prerequisite for improving the competitiveness of the state. To achieve this goal, individual elements of the national innovation system including the main components of the innovation infrastructure are being formed in many constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

Materials and Methods. The constituent entities of the Russian Federation are the object of the research, the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the main components of the innovative productive and technological infrastructure being the subject of the study. A typology of Russia’s regions in terms of the development of their innovative productive and technological infrastructure was carried out. To calculate the integral index of the level of infrastructure development, linear scaling was applied; the number of different objects of productive and technological infrastructure in each region was used as the input indicator.

Results. The types of the regions of Russia have been singled out according to the level of development of the productive and technological infrastructure and their brief description has been given. One and the same type includes territories having a similar structure and level of saturation with objects of productive and technological infrastructure which is manifested indirectly in the main results of the innovation activities of the regions. It has been revealed that more than half of the regions of Russia have a low level of development of the productive and technological infrastructure, a small number of regions are characterized by a high level of infrastructure development, in other constituent entities of the Russian Federation an average level of innovation infrastructure development has been noted.

Discussion and Conclusion. The level of the innovative development of the regions of Russia largely depends on the degree of development of the productive and technological infrastructure. Further progress of the productive and technological component of the regional innovation systems is associated with the development of effective marketing mechanisms for the commercialization of innovations, with the improvement of the quality of education and its focus on the issues of innovation. The results of the research can be used by decision makers to substantiate the diversification of regional innovation systems in accordance with the priority directions of the technological development of the country.

Keywords: innovation, productive and technological infrastructure, region, technology park, diversification, commercialization

Funding. The study was carried out with the financial support from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research within the research project No. 19-05-00066.

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Submitted 16.04.2019; accepted for publication 18.06.2019; published online 30.09.2019.

About the author:

Arthur M. Nosonov, Professor, Department of Physical and Socio-Economic Geography, National Research Mordovia State University (68/1 Bolshevistskaya St., Saransk 430005, Russia), Dr. Sci. (Geography), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4719-0166, artno@mail.ru

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Nosonov A.M. Productive and Technological Innovation Infrastructure of the Regions of Russia. Regionology = Russian Journal of Regional Studies. 2019; 27(3):436-460. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15507/2413-1407.107.027.201903.436-460

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