POTENTIAL OF NEW CENTERS OF INNOVATIVE ECONOMY AND THEIR ROLE IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP (USING THE EXAMPLE OF THE NOVOSIBIRSK REGION)
Modern regions of the Russian Federation are a reflection of new socio-economic processes in which the formation and development of the national innovation system and the digital economy take place. This study aims to test the hypothesis that the Novosibirsk region can become one of the main regions of technological breakthrough due to a significant concentration of high-tech, knowledge-intensive industries in the region, the enormous role of science and scientific personnel in the economic development of the region, as well as high entrepreneurial activity. The objective of this study is to identify promising and priority areas of innovation activity of Novosibirsk entrepreneurship as a type of commercial activity and to find a unique niche in markets for goods produced using the technologies of the fourth industrial revolution. The study of this phenomenon was carried out on the basis of a sociological study. The role in the innovation transformation of entrepreneurship, authorities, scientists, and civil society was considered, the possibilities of their interaction on the basis of public-private partnership were evaluated. The influence of the economic structure on innovation and institutional changes in entrepreneurship and the competitiveness of products was also studied.
Keywords: innovation, modernization, entrepreneurship, digitalization, region, science, human capital.
Highlights:
the role of modern entrepreneurship, authorities, scientists, civil society in the innovative development of the Novosibirsk region was revealed;
an the possibility of their interaction on the basis of a public-private partnership was assessed;
the influence of various factors on the innovative development of the region was analyzed.
Tamara N. Yudina, Doctor of Economics, Chief Researcher, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Aleksey M. Balashov, Candidate of Economics, Associate Professor, Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University.