Directions of Transforming Regional Innovation System of Territories

Abstract

The relevance of this study is defined by the need to solve the problem connected with the lack of mechanisms and effective practices for ensuring sustainable innovative development of regions, exacerbated by the deterioration of macroeconomic conditions. The aim of the study is to develop directions for transforming the regional innovation system of territories. To achieve this goal, a set of author’s methodological developments was applied, including a system of regional stimulators for ensuring innovative sustainability, the concept of a map of the “cores” of an innovative cluster, an algorithm for maintaining sustainable spatial development by creating unified information platforms for strategic regional development and forecasting. These approaches and concepts were tested in relation to three regions of the Ural Federal District: Sverdlovsk Region, Kurgan Region, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug — Yugra. As a result, a three-level system of regional stimulators for ensuring innovative sustainability was improved and a system of measures for innovative development was concretized, taking into account the specifics of each region under study; the concept, passport and map of the “cores” of the innovative cluster “Engineering and Technologies for the North” were developed for the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug — Yugra, the implementation of which will increase the level of region innovative sustainability, even out the imbalances of socio-economic development, and will also contribute to the implementation of priorities of the National Technological Initiative; the architecture of a unified information platform that ensures mutually beneficial cooperation of all participants in socio-economic processes, including at the interregional level, expressed in positive bilateral and cross-effects and reducing the risks of innovative development, was designed. The complex of the presented results contributes to the solution of the stated scientific and practical problem. The tools proposed and tested on the example of the regions of the Ural Federal District for the formation and maintenance of trends in sustainable innovative development may be used in the further development of a model of sustainable spatial development of regions and maintenance of innovative trends.