Development of technological startups in the energy sector: assessment of the infrastructure potential of Russian regions
Abstract At the present stage, the development of Russian energy is taking place in the context of challenges related to the achievement of technological sovereignty, the need to eliminate high depreciation of production assets, the transition to a carbon-neutral model of energy production, accelerated import substitution. There is a sharp increase in the need for newways of generating knowledge to solve complex problems and create innovative technologies based on them. As appropriate mechanisms, the article considers technological startups and specialized infrastructure of technological entrepreneurship, which are currently insufficiently studied in the industry aspect. The research was based on the application of classical methods of analysis, synthesis, classification, weighting coefficients, expert surveys, methods of conceptual design and visual analytics were used to build models of technological startups. As a result, a refined conceptual framework is presented, a conceptual model of the infrastructure of technological startups in the regional energy sector is created, a methodology for assessing the degree of its development is developed, the application of which is demonstrated by the example of a number of Russian regions. The proposed recommendations can be used by energy companies, as well as government agencies, when making decisions on the localization of high-tech industries for the needs of the industry and the activation of innovative processes in the regional energy sector.
Keywords: technological entrepreneurship, startups, regional energy, economic development, digitaliza-tion, technological modernization, innovative infrastructure.
Highlights:
♦ technological startups and technological entrepreneurship are the drivers of the innovative process in the electric power industry, which requires comprehensive modernization within the framework of the national import substitution policy;
♦ the infrastructure of technology startups in the energy sector includes various entities that are in the process of constantly exchanging ideas, knowledge, resources and capital;
♦ the methodology for assessing infrastructure potential allows analyzing innovative activity in regional energy systems and making decisions on the localization of high-tech industries that meet promising industry objectives.
Evgeny M. Starikov - Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russia