DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES FOR INNOVATIVE ACTIVITY IN RUSSIA

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problems of assessing changes in the personnel potential of innovative activity in the Russian economy in 1994-2020. The dynamics of the number of researchers in the Russian Federation, obtained on the basis of official data from the Federal State Statistics Service, is used as the main criterion for assessing the personnel potential of innovations. In addition to the total number of researchers, the article considers the change in their structure in such areas of science as: natural, technical, medical, agricultural, social and humanitarian. The analysis showed that the total number of researchers decreased over the period under review. However, since 2010, the rate of decline in this indicator has slowed down significantly compared to the 90s of the XX century, which should be considered as a positive trend. In the field of social sciences and humanities, the number of researchers has increased. At the same time, in all fields of science, there is an increase in the number of the most qualified researchers - doctors of science. Thus, we can conclude that the decrease in the number of researchers was simultaneously accompanied by an increase in their qualifications. This ensured the preservation of the personnel potential of the innovation activity of the Russian Federation at a sufficiently high level, despite the negative impact of a number of environmental factors.