Antecedents and Barriers to the Formation of Regional Innovation System: Case Study of the Kaliningrad Region

Anna A Mikhaylova,Andrey S Mikhaylov

doi:10.5539/mas.v9n2p175

Abstract

The article summarizes various scientific approaches to the definition of the regional innovation system, while a certain tendency to consider it as a phenomenon similar to the innovation cluster is revealed. The study has shown the role of the state in the Russian model of the regional innovation system compared to the Asian, European, and North American approaches. A general unified goal is defined for the Russian regions in the process towards the formation of an innovation system. Authors have identified five main groups of factors that have a positive effect on the formation of the regional innovation system and a regional cluster as its core. Estimates on the process of the formation of the innovation system in the Kaliningrad region is given relative to all five groups of factors. Research results suggest certain barriers to the formation of the regional innovation system of the Kaliningrad region – the Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea.

Highlights

A significant impact on the disproportion of the world’s spatial arrangement has the internationalization process, which is characterized by an escalating aspiration of individual organizations and even entire states to form relationships and respective interdependencies, leading to the emergence of economic, political, military, cultural and other associations at the international level
The purpose of this article is to identify groups of factors that have an impact on the formation of the regional innovation system (RIS) and the regional innovation cluster (RIC) as its core, and identify barriers to the innovative development of the Kaliningrad region
Authors traced the historical roots of the formation of scientific and technical potential of the Kaliningrad region in Soviet times in order to assess the degree of embeddedness of the innovation activity

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A significant impact on the disproportion of the world’s spatial arrangement has the internationalization process, which is characterized by an escalating aspiration of individual organizations and even entire states to form relationships and respective interdependencies, leading to the emergence of economic, political, military, cultural and other associations at the international level. Along with the development of science and technology, and the formation of a polycentric model of distribution of excellence centers, the essential value was acquired by internationalization of research activities and its elaborated form – the globalization of innovations. This process includes the international exploitation of technologies developed at the national level, the global generation of innovations by multinational corporations and a global scientific – technological cooperation (Archibugi and Iammarino, 2002; Mikhaylova and Mikhaylov, 2014)

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