Regional Innovation Potential Research Articles

Assessment of regional climate innovation potential in Hungary

Assessment of regional climate innovation potential in Hungary

ЕКОНОМІЧНА СУТНІСТЬ ТА РОЛЬ КЛАСТЕРНИХ ФОРМУВАНЬ В СУЧАСНІЙ СМАРТ-ІНДУСТРІЇ

The article considers the current trends in the development of economic systems aimed at the formation of innovative cluster formations. Problems of existence of cluster systems in the modern smart industry are defined. The main aspects of the national cluster development program until 2027 are revealed. The advantages of modern cluster formations in contrast to the classical subjects of entrepreneurial activity are determined. The mechanisms of world practice of active development of clusters, which is an effective direction of innovation, are studied. The methods of definition and stages of realization of the strategy of reasonable specialization of the region are investigated. The need for government support for key territorial priorities to attract investment was stressed. The main system effects of cluster smart specialization and calculation of the specialization coefficient of the region are considered. Among the system effects, the most important are: growth of competitive advantages, concentration of economic activity, coverage of new market segments, generation of new value chains, quick start for new business structures, and creation of system synergetic effects. The strategy of implementation of the local transformation program aimed at government support of key territorial priorities, stimulation of investment potential, stimulation of investment potential, motivation of stakeholders and formation of the evaluation system is studied. Some methods of analysis and expert assessment of potential areas of smart specialization of territories are presented, in accordance with the recommendations of RIS3. The main stages of the search for smart specialization and indicators for assessing the economic specialization of the cluster are identified. It is concluded that the presence of a unified approach to the study of the regional context and innovation potential will ensure the functioning of clusters in accordance with the smart specialization of the region. The ways of further scientific researches for competent formation of cluster strategy of enterprises are determined.

ИННОВАЦИОННЫЙ ПОТЕНЦИАЛ АКМОЛИНСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ: ПРОБЛЕМЫ И ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ ЭФФЕКТИВНОГО РАЗВИТИЯ

The article considers the terms “innovation potential”, “regional innovation potential”, and the state of innovation potential. The purpose of this article is to determine the current state and prospects for the development of the innovative potential of the Akmola region. The research methodology consists in systematization of innovative indicators of the region by comparison and economic and statistical groupings. The analysis of the formation of the innovative potential of the region on the example of the Northern regions of the Republic of Kazakhstan is carried out. In particular, the dynamics of the gross regional product and innovation activity in the Akmola region is presented.

ІННОВАЦІЙНИЙ ПОТЕНЦІАЛ СТРАТЕГІЧНОГО РОЗВИТКУ РЕГІОНУ: СУТНІСТЬ ТА СКЛАДОВІ

The issues of innovation-driven development are becoming more and more common in scientific and practical domains, since innovation is a core source of economic growth and a pathway to gain competitive advantages. The above triggers the need to explore the innovation potential as the backbone of innovative activity at the national as well as at the regional levels. It is argued that innovation policy should ensure the implementation of regional strategic goals subject to available resources, whereas regional innovation potential contributes to its socioeconomic, scientific and technical growth as well as enhances product competitiveness. The purpose of this article is to provide insights into theoretical approaches and reveal the essence of the ‘regional innovation potential’ concept. The research findings have identified specific features of regional innovation potential and its key structural elements. An emphasis is put on the sources of innovative development at the regional level. The study explores the functions of regional innovation potential along with the factors affecting its growth. An algorithm for assessing the current state of regional innovation potential and making a decision as to its further strategic development has been provided. A range of research methods have been employed to attain the study objectives, in particular, the systemic method, inductive and deductive reasoning, graphic and tabular methods, etc. The developed algorithm for assessing the innovation potential has great practical implications in evaluating the regional innovation capacity. The research displayed the lack of unanimity in scholars’ approaches to interpreting regional innovation potential and its structural elements. This category is viewed as a set of resources and as the ability to utilize these resources. The elements of the regional innovation potential involve market, information, financial, investment, production, research, marketing and human resources.

ОЦЕНКА ПОТЕНЦИАЛА ИННОВАЦИОННОГО РАЗВИТИЯ СВЕРДЛОВСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ

The article assesses the innovative potential of the Sverdlovsk region using the following indicators: the number of personnel engaged in research and development and having an academic degree; research and development costs; the use of objects of intellectual property; the number of technologies developed and patents issued; innovative activity of business entities; volume of innovative products; the activity of technopark structures, etc. The analysis was carried out in dynamics using graphic methods. It was revealed that the Sverdlovsk region, being a large industrial region, has a higher innovative potential among other entities of the Ural Federal District, and it belongs to the medium-strong innovative territories of Russia. Nevertheless, some problems were identified: insufficient increase in the remuneration of personnel involved in innovative activities, insufficient increase in the cost of purchasing equipment, which is 6-7 times less than the tax burden on innovative organizations; decrease in the share of economic entities implementing innovations. In the investigated constituent entity of the Russian Federation, a number of normative legal acts have been adopted concerning the development of innovative activity, and strategic planning documents (strategy, concept, state program) have been developed, in which directions for increasing the innovation potential of the region are enshrined, in particular, financial and other support, stimulating demand for innovative products, infrastructure development, including technology parks. As foreign experience shows, in innovation, it is important to coordinate the interests of all factors (government, business, science, education, civil society). Therefore, the article proposes to use more actively the mechanism of the “triple helix”, enshrined at the legislative level. A number of measures are also proposed to increase the innovative potential of the country in general and of the Sverdlovsk region in particular.

YOUTH INNOVATIVENESS IN THE MODERN ECONOMY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE "GENOTYPE — PERSONALITY — ENVIRONMENT" CONCEPTION

This paper, which has a problem-setting character, actualizes and analyzes the problem of innovativeness of young people in Russia. The authors consider this problem in the framework of a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to study the interconnectedness of genetic and «environmentally-related» factors of forming personal and professional orientation to innovation. The study of this problem involves the identification of the genetic and environmental economic, social and cultural factors and predictors youth readiness for innovative activities based on comparative socioeconomic, sociocultural, psychodiagnostic and molecular genetic analysis. Understanding the factors and mechanisms of the formation and development of innovativeness is an important research objective that goes also into practical terms, in particular, in the study and implementation of intellectual and innovation potential of regions and territories. Further studies of this problem may contribute to the improvement and refinement of the theoretical concepts of innovativeness and the development of effective methods for empowering personal innovativeness and enhancing the involvement of modern youth in research, entrepreneurial and innovation activities.

Інноваційний потенціал регіонів України: методичні підходи та результати оцінки

Інноваційний потенціал регіонів України: методичні підходи та результати оцінки

Calculation of a Complex Indicator of the Innovation Potential

This article describes a possible approach to the analysis of a complex indicator of the innovation potential of a region. The definition of the concept is given, the components included in its structure are singled out, the model of a complex indicator of the innovation potential of a region is offered. The calculation of a complex indicator of the innovation potential on the basis of the proposed methodology is made and the conclusions on the obtained result are formulated. The article also offers a method of analysis of integrated indicators – the components of the regional innovation potential on the basis of the used technique. The summary table of the normalized values of the integrated indicators - components of the innovation potential of the regions of the Central Federal district and their estimated values on the basis of which it is possible to draw conclusions about the level of the regional innovation development is presented. The approach used is acceptable for assessing the innovation potential of various organizational systems, for ranking regions relative to each other and for making recommendations to improve the level of the innovation development of regions.

НАУЧНО-ТЕХНИЧЕСКИЙ И ИННОВАЦИОННЫЙ ПОТЕНЦИАЛ РЕГИОНА: СРАВНЕНИЕ СОВРЕМЕННЫХ ПОДХОДОВ К ОЦЕНКЕ

The measures currently being implemented to support scientific, technical and innovative activities are directly or indirectly aimed at developing the scientific, technical and innovative potential of the regions. However, the existing approaches to assessing scientific, technical and innovative potential do not allow obtaining complete information for making further management decisions This article attempts to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the currently used approaches to assessing the scientific, technical and innovative potential of the regions. The subject of the analysis was both the approaches presented exclusively in the form of theoretical constructions, and those that are used in the practice of public administration, conducting economic activities and developing regional ratings based on scientific, technical and innovative potential. In order to see a broader context of the problem of analyzing the scientific, technical and innovative potential of regions, the approaches used in other countries with a federal structure and the approaches used by international organizations were considered.

LEADING INNOVATIVE PRACTICES IN THE THEMATIC AREA “HEALTHY LIVING INDUSTRY AND BIOTECHNOLOGIES” AT A REGIONAL LEVEL

The regional context of smart specialization continues to be in the focus of academic discussions as the innovative potential of regions in Bulgaria is being determined. The aim of the present work is to identify innovative practices in one of the leading thematic areas – “Healthy living industry and biotechnologies” during the period of 2014-2019 in a selected region. The object of research is the region of Yambol listed in the National Strategy for Smart Specialization in the Republic of Bulgaria as a promising region in the thematic area “Healthy living industry and biotechnologies”. We have applied methods of regional economic analysis based on objective statistical data. Regional analysis has been complemented with a survey to reflect the subjective viewpoint of stakeholder representatives. The survey and the analysis of the collected information prove the presence of potential in the region of Yambol for expanding organic production in the food industry and generating “green energy” in the energetics sector.

Assessing the factors of regional innovation environment on the basis of institutional approach

The article deals with a new method of assessing the factors of the regional innovation environment. The method is based on the assessment of three fundamental factors: legal, infrastructure, economic. The theoretical significance of the study is due to the contribution to the development of methods for assessing the factors of development of the innovative environment of the regions on the basis of the index method, taking into account the expert opinions of innovators. The purpose of the study is to develop a mechanism for regulating the development of regional innovation environment on the basis of the author’s method-Index APPROX. The research methodology consists of economic and statistical methods, methods of expert assessments, correlation and regression analysis and index method. The result of the research is formed organizational and economic mechanism of regulation of regional innovation environment development on the basis of the method-Index PRIM, taking into account the assessment of innovators, in order to increase the level of regional innovation potential as a factor of socio-economic development of the Russian Federation. On the basis of this mechanism, the author’s algorithm of managerial decision-making in order to improve the management of innovative potential of Russian regions is proposed.

The Strategic Importance of the Regional Economic System Innovative Potential

The purpose of this article is to substantiate regional innovative potential as one of the main conditions for the competitiveness growth in the future of any economic system. The paper studies the essence of “innovation” and “potential” concepts, which together form the concept of “innovative potential”. The authors analyze the structure of innovative potential and present it by three components: resources, internal sphere, production. The interaction of these components with each other determines the common essence of innovative potential. In order to determine a more complete description of the object under analysis, the authors identify the criteria for the classification of its types. The paper proves that the innovative potential of any economic system needs analysis and evaluation since it allows determining strategic directions of the economic system development, which ensures the future growth of its competitiveness. In the framework of the proposed assessment model the authors identify the main indicators that can be used to assess the economic system innovative potential. The suggested methodology for assessing the innovative potential of enterprises is aimed at a fuller use of resource and managerial components of this potential, as well as at comparing available resources and actual results of innovative activities. In order to increase the innovative activity of enterprises in the region the paper substantiates the need for the timely adjustment of the regional economic policy in terms of encouraging and supporting business entities. The authors identify three main areas of monitoring which will allow assessing the general state of the regional innovative system and obtaining data on innovative processes in the region. They are the analysis of the knowledge generation subsystem, the analysis of the innovation production subsystem, the analysis of the innovation distribution subsystem.

Innovation potential of the Arctic economic systems

Innovation potential is of a high priority in territorial economic systems in ensuring sustainable economic growth. Assessment of innovation potential of Arctic systems allows integrating the efforts of federal and regional executive authorities and local governments to activate the innovative development of industrial enterprises. Various scenarios for implementation of the strategy of innovation development, methodological principles and recommendations for evaluating the innovation potential were considered. An assessment of the innovation potential in four regions that are fully related to Russian Arctic was carried out. Innovative profiles of the considered regions were formulated. It is shown that the Murmansk region has the most rational innovation profile close in form to an equilateral pentagon. Based on the assessment of the innovation potential efficiency of using various resources that contribute to the innovative development of the Arctic regions is determined. The Murmansk region has the greatest potential for innovative development. An assessment of the innovation potential of the Arctic regions which allows determining the effectiveness of the use of various resources for the innovative development of regions is performed. The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District demonstrated the greatest potential compared to other Arctic regions and accordingly the most rational use of resources for innovative and technological development what is the basis for recommending the use of the scenario of leadership achievement of innovative development in the medium and long term

Innovative potential of a region and the efficiency of its use

The interest in the topic of innovative development of regions has increased in recent years. The main condition for building an economy based on innovation is the presence of innovative potential as a set of opportunities in innovation. At the same time, it is not only the innovative potential important itself, but it is also important the effectiveness of its use. Thus, the problem of increasing of the innovative potential of the region and the effectiveness of its use is relevant, and this fact led to the choice of research direction, the results of which are presented in this work. Modern research of innovative potential is mainly associated with the development of its theoretical aspects and the methods of its evaluation. There is a growing interest in the concept of "knowledge economy", and in the question of the ensuring of the sustainability and security of regional development now, so in connection with it the works at the intersection of these problems and the problem of formation and development of innovative potential appear. It should be noted that in the scientific literature and in practice, the problem of assessing and improving of the efficiency of the innovative potential of regions is given relatively little attention, and therefore this area of research has novelty and is of scientific and practical importance. So, the purpose of this study was to determine the directions of increasing of the innovative potential of the regions and the effectiveness of its use, in particular, on the example of the regions of the Republic of Belarus. In the course of the study, such methods as the analysis of scientific literature, legislation, statistical research data; analysis and synthesis; tabular and graphical methods of data visualization and others were used. The result of this study is the development of conceptual directions and practical recommendations of improving of the innovative potential of the regions of the Republic of Belarus and the effectiveness of its use. The results of the study can be of scientific, theoretical and practical interest and can be used by regional governments in the process of making of informed management decisions in the field of innovation. The implementation of the measures of improving of the efficiency of the innovative potential of the regions will contribute to their socio-economic development.

The assessment of the impact of intellectual and innovation activities on regional socio-economic development

This paper presents the author’s approach to the assessment and analysis of regional intellectual and innovation activities and its components: regional intellectual and innovation potential, climate and capital. The assessment of regional intellectual and innovation activities and its components was made by the example of the regions of the Central Federal District and the Siberian Federal District. The influence of intellectual and innovation activities on regional socio-economic development is considered.

MARKETING ASPECTS OF INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT IN REGIONS

In the article the essence of the concept of innovation potential and its regional features are considered. The author analyzes the main factors of stimulation and restraint of realization of innovation potential of regions. As a result of their selection of the marketing component, their role in managing the innovative development of the regions was substantiated. The author describes the main marketing strategies of innovation development of regions and their components. The analysis of the driving forces of economic development in recent decades has shown that the leading positions of the countries are decisively determined by innovation factors. They are the basis for the dynamic development of individual enterprises, regions, countries, and the whole world economy as a whole. Marketing criterion assessment of innovative potential is a powerful tool for the successful development of the region's capabilities, especially useful for regions characterized by high indicators of innovation activity. Marketing aspects of innovation development in the region can become the basis for attracting investment, forming a positive image and overall economic development. Regional marketing allows to assess the current market situation, to forecast the prospects of promoting regional innovative products, to take measures to create a positive image of the region and strengthen its competitive advantages. Therefore, it is important to note that marketing tools for stimulating innovation development should be applied at the regional level, as they promote: realization of innovative potential of the region, increase of attractiveness of the region for large innovative companies, satisfaction of needs of target markets through creation of innovative products, development of the relationship of innovative business with scientific organizations and regional authorities. Thus, the role of marketing in the socio-economic development of innovation and intellectual-oriented regional systems is decisive.

The role of firm-level factors and regional innovation capabilities for Polish SMEs

The paper elaborates on the innovativeness of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Poland from the regional perspective. The empirical evidence is based on data collected among 820 Polish SMEs which actively use ICT tools in their business processes. Identifying firm-level (internal) and regional drivers of innovations in these enterprises was the main aim of this study. The originality of the utilized research approach lies in combining within one framework firm-level data with meso data describing the innovative potential of the regional environment and using multilevel random-effects models to analyze the relevance of firm-level and regional drivers of SMEs’ innovativeness. By deploying a regional random effects approach, we assessed indirectly the effectiveness of innovation policies conducted in Polish NUTS 2 regions within a RIS and S3 framework. Interestingly, the research hypothesis, stating that regional (external) factors are more important to enhance innovativeness of SME than firm-level (internal) drivers, was verified negatively. The study revealed that SMEs in less-developed regions of Poland rely more on in-house capabilities, than on the regional innovative potential, to introduce different types of innovations. This suggests that the S3 framework in less-developed regions should concentrate more on linking firm-level factors and regional innovation systems to enhance companies’ innovation capacity.

ОЦЕНКА ИННОВАЦИОННОГО ПОТЕНЦИАЛА АПК ОРЕНБУРГСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ

ОЦЕНКА ИННОВАЦИОННОГО ПОТЕНЦИАЛА АПК ОРЕНБУРГСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ

Analysis of regional innovation environment factors within the institutional approach

The article deals with a new approach to the assessment of regional innovation environment factors. The approach is based on the assessment of three fundamental factors: the legal, infrastructural, and economic ones. The theoretical significance of the study lies in a contribution to the development of techniques for the assessment of development factors of the innovation environment of regions on the basis of an index method, taking into account expert opinions of innovators. The purpose of the research was to develop a mechanism for the regulation of the development of the regional innovation environment on the basis of the author’s technique - the PRIM index. The methods of research included the economic and statistical methods, methods of expert evaluation, the correlation and regression analysis, and the index method. The result of the research is the formation of an organizational and economic mechanism for the regulation of the development of the regional innovation environment on the basis of the PRIM index method that takes into account the assessment of innovators in order to increase the level of the regional innovation potential as a factor of social and economic development of the subjects of the Russian Federation. Based on this mechanism, the authors proposes an algorithm for managerial decision-making aimed at improving the management of the innovative potential of regions.

РЕГИОНАЛЬНАЯ ИННОВАЦИОННАЯ СРЕДА: МЕТОДИКА ОЦЕНКИ ИНСТИТУЦИОНАЛЬНОЙ СТРУКТУРЫ

The development of a territory clearly involves the implementation of innovations to ensure its economic growth and improve the quality of life of its people. This implies a preliminary assessment of the institutional structure of the regional environment for introducing innovations with a view to its susceptibility to innovations. If necessary, this structure needs to be adjusted, so that the environment of the region becomes susceptible to innovations. The article discusses a new method for assessing the factors of regional innovation environment. It assesses the three fundamental groups of factors: legal, infrastructural, and economic. The study is significant due to its contribution to the development of methodologies for assessing the factors of the development of the innovation environment in the regions. We base on the index method and take into account the expert opinions of innovators. The research uses economic and statistical methods, expert assessment methods, correlation and regression analysis and the index method. As a result, an organizational and economic mechanism for regulating the development of a regional innovation environment is formed. It is based on the PRIM-Index method. It deals with the innovators assessments, in order to increase the level of regional innovation potential as a factor in the socio-economic development of the Russian regions. We suggest an algorithm for making management decisions in order to improve the innovative potential management of the Russian regions.