Institutional effects in development of regional innovational infrastructure

Abstract

Purpose - The authors try to determine the institutional effect in development of regional innovational infrastructure on the basis of comparing the data on dynamics and geographical distribution of various types of the innovational infrastructure - technological parks, industrial parks, innovational territorial clusters, and small innovational companies for with higher educational establishments in the Russian regions. Design/methodology/ approach - The authors made an attempt on determining the institutional effects in development of regional innovational infrastructure on the basis of comparing data on dynamics and geographical distribution of various types of innovational infrastructure. Findings - The performed analysis allows concluding that institutional effects are present in the process of development of regional innovational infrastructure. Originality/value - We deem it expedient to use various methods of evaluation of the innovational infrastructure objects effectiveness, as well as various approaches to regulating their functioning, which could be unified into an integrated mechanism of managing life cycle of innovational infrastructure institutes.