Abstract
According to the Russia’s Innovative Development Strategy until 2020 (Strategy) [1], one of the main goals of innovative growth of the Russian Economy lays in the advanced studies in the fields of renewable energy and low-carbon economy, genome medicine, and implementation of new technologies in agriculture, the fields in which Russia still faces with sufficient technological backlog. In general, the Strategy and following National Science project [2] approved in 2018 is aimed at Russia’s transition from one of the most energy- and carbon-intensive countries to a sustainable low-carbon economy. Russia needs to attract additional resources in human and knowledge capital in order to eliminate or decrease this technological backlog and to join international scientific community’s efforts in the field of green economy. This paper studies how influencing one of two pillars of the Global Innovation Index (GII), knowledge and technology output pillar, by implementing innovations in Russian higher education affects Russian innovative infrastructure and provides technical and resource baseline in reaching main strategic indicators of innovative development in Russia. This paper proposes a framework for attracting and retaining human resources and creating knowledge capital for transition to a sustainable low-carbon economy on the basis of micro and meso level changes.
Highlights
According to CDP Climate Change Report, Russia belongs to the Top 10 carbon emitters and energy-intensive countries in the world [3]
Analysis of BRICS courtiers’ progress in transition to green economy shows that except Russia, all four BICS countries are involved in search of the renewable energy consumption, as it significantly increases GDP per capita of BICS countries [7]
Findings presented in this article were built on the analysis of metrics of Global Innovation Index (GII) [10], KPIs and metrics of innovation activity indicated in Innovative Development Strategy to 2020 and other metrics of innovation process in Russia obtained from different sources
Summary
According to CDP Climate Change Report, Russia belongs to the Top 10 carbon emitters and energy-intensive countries in the world [3]. One of the key factors for Russia’s being energy-intensive type of economy lays in high level of technical abrasion and insufficient level of modernization of the Russian energy industry. These factors cause huge energy wastage and carbon emissions [5]. In comparison with China, which is the second world's energy consuming country, Russia’s development in terms of green economy is practically insignificant. Analysis of BRICS courtiers’ progress in transition to green economy shows that except Russia, all four BICS countries are involved in search of the renewable energy consumption, as it significantly increases GDP per capita of BICS countries [7]
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