КОЛИЧЕСТВЕННАЯ ОЦЕНКА ИННОВАЦИОННОЙ ИНФРАСТРУКТУРЫ РОССИИ

Abstract

Over the past decade, the Russian government has reformed the national innovation system. However, there is still no research quantifying these changes. This study fills this gap by examining the devel-opment of Russia's innovative infrastructure using metrics from one of the leading innovators in the world – China. This research studies the innovation infrastructures of both countries, and the hypothesis is that there is a difference in the development of certain types of innovation infrastructure in Russia compared to China. The main methods of research are retrospective, structural, and comparative analyses. Data were collected from open sources such as Rosstat, the Global Innovation Index, World Bank, and the State Statistical Office of China. An overview the statistical indicators for Russia and China from 2010 to 2023 shows the level of development of six types of infrastructure: material, digital, scientific, educational, social, regulatory, and financial. The analysis showed that Russia lags behind China in terms of innovation infrastructure as a whole. From a structural point of view, there is also a differentiation in the development of certain types of infrastructure within Russia. The material, social, and digital infrastructures are the most developed, while the remaining elements are less developed compared to China. We believe that the main bottleneck in Rus-sian infrastructure is the lack of autonomy for innovation in private industry due to a lack of qualified scien-tists.