Technopark and its role in improving the competitiveness of the country’s economy: current issues in Russia and Iran

Abstract

This article presents the recent problems of infrastructure support for innovative enterprises that topical for scientists, public authorities and business representatives. The authors consider modern innovation policy as a regulator of innovation processes, consider the experience of organizing technoparks in foreign countries and the features of Russian technoparks, give the dynamics of their creation in Russia, and analyze the structure of domestic technoparks depending on their specialization and affiliation. The structure of technoparks is analyzed depending on its specialization, as well as depending on the owners. Actual problems of the organization and activity of technoparks in Russia, including on the basis of higher education institutions, are highlighted and generalized. Noting the important role of new-generation technoparks in improving the competitiveness of the country’s economy, practical recommendations for their development in modern conditions are given. The recommendations are universal and can be applied in the practical activities of authority, representatives of technoparks, universities and subjects of innovative business in Russia, Iran and other states, aimed at developing their own developments and their introduction into production. It can contribute to increase the competitiveness of the country’s economy.