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Technological upgrading: “hidden” growth areas

2015-04-01

How Russia’s innovation-based development can be accelerated? Which steps would help to coordinate development of new technologies and finding solutions for socio-economic problems? How to promote creation and application of innovations on the regional level? These and other aspects of science and innovation policy development are covered in the latest issue of "Foresight-Russia" journal (2015, vol. 9, no 1).

The importance of social context is often underestimated when setting S&T priorities, note Mariya Dobryakova and Zoya Kotel'nikova in their paper "Social Embeddedness of Technology: Prospective Research Areas". The authors conclude that many innovative designs would be more effective if they were applied talking into account results of social and humanities studies.

In the paper "Advanced Manufacturing Technologies in Russia: Outlines of a New Policy", Irina Dezhina, Alexey Ponomarev and Alexander Frolov also consider opportunities to apply innovative Russian designs in production. Despite the low competitiveness, the authors conclude that Russia does have a certain potential to create promising production technologies. But how successfully this potential will be realised, depends on the extent the stakeholders’ activities are coordinated, and government policies improved.

Leading countries’ experience shows that territorial clusters make interaction of local innovation systems’ participants more efficient, and allow to create new growth nodes. Russia is only beginning to apply this regional development tool. Evgeniy Kutsenko in his paper "Pilot Innovative Territorial Clusters in Russia: A Sustainable Development Mode presents a detailed review of relevant best practices", makes quantitative comparison of Russian and international clusters, and suggests a model for sustainable cluster development.

Another way to enhance innovation activities on the regional level is to establish “business catalysts” combining organisational, management, research, production and technological competencies. This solution improves quality of projects and efficiency of investments at the most high-risk stages. The paper by Sergey Makarov and Ekaterina Ugnich "Business-catalysts as Drivers of Regional Innovation Systems" presents regional business catalysts as a component of the innovation infrastructure, analyses their weaknesses and development prospects.

Jonathan Calof, Gregory Richards and Jack Smith are recognised competitive intelligence experts. In the paper "Foresight, Competitive Intelligence and Business Analytics — Tools for Making Industrial Programmes More Efficient" they describe an integrated approach to understanding the risks and developing efficient industrial policies. The authors suggest a set of indicators to monitor implementation of programmes, which allow to quickly adjust the activities, reduce risks, and identify new opportunities for the industry development in time.

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