CENTER AND PERIPHERY OF RUSSIAN NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEM


Preobrazhenskij Yu. V.

A critical analysis of the country`s national innovation system using the "center-periphery" model can show the degree of its formation and lead to an understanding of the optimal configuration of innovation centers. Regions-centers and regions of the semi-periphery of the territorial innovation system are different in their functions: the first focus on the creative functions of knowledge generation, the second on the production of innovative products. The scientific novelty of this study is the methodology justification for identifying three types of regions (central, semi-peripheral and peripheral) according to their role in the functioning of the national innovation system. The proposed methodology of identifying the center and periphery of the national innovation system, limits that must be exceeded are set in order for the region to fully participate in the innovation process at a given stage. Based on the materials of the Russian regions, as a result of applying the proposed typology, the center regions, semi-periphery regions, and intermediate regions were identified. The spatial configuration of different types of regions is critically analyzed from the point of view of the possibility of optimizing the territorial structure of the national innovation system. The main axes of the country`s innovative structure are proposed and regions that are not active in terms of innovation are identified, the development of which will have a positive effect on the national innovation system as a whole. Keywords: core-periphery structure, national innovation system, knowledge flow, regional typology, innovative development. Highlights: ♦ the national innovation system is formed due to the activity of central regions that can create innovations (regions that generate knowledge), and semi-peripheral regions that perceive these innovations and produce innovative products (recipient regions); ♦ to identify the types of regions by their function in the formation of the national innovation system, it is suggested to use two groups of active innovation (and economic) activity` indicators; ♦ nowadays, Russia is characterized by a relatively narrow range of regions-centers that belong to the innovation and active periphery, which creates a threat of disproportionate territorial economic development.

Yurij V. Preobrazhenskij, Candidate of Geography, Associate Professor of the Saratov State University.


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