Innovative approaches to sustainable development of regional production systems in the medical equipment industry
Abstract. In the context of sustainable development, the creation of high-quality living conditions for the population is an integral part of global and state strategies for demographic and social development. Achieving development goals is impossible to imagine without providing citizens with high-quality health care services, which, in turn, are provided primarily by modern technical and technological means. In this vein, medical equipment, devices used in health care, various means of provision and support are important factors in maintaining the quality of medical services and a condition for achieving demographic objectives and sustainable development goals in the field of ensuring a healthy life for all segments of the population and ages. Sanctions and trade restrictions have significantly limited the technical support of the health care sector, which has multiplied the demand for accelerated development of the domestic medical equipment manufacturing industry. Therefore, in the current situation, innovations in this area are a critically important and relevant area in the industry. The current work is devoted to finding solutions to optimize the development tools of regional production systems in the direction of medical equipment production. It is noted that in order to consolidate efforts in innovative development, it is advisable to maximally cooperate individual manufacturers, including representatives of small and medium-sized businesses. This will improve the efficiency of research and innovative activities in conditions of limited resources, foreign investment and budget funding.
Keywords: analysis, import substitution, innovation, clusters, medical industry, sanctions, technology parks, development factors.
Highlights:
- due to the high dependence of domestic healthcare on foreign technologies, import substitution in the medical and medical instrument industries is an important factor in the sustainable development of the country and its demographic indicators in the long term;
- the medical industry is, on the one hand, one of the high-tech types of activity, however, the level of innovative activity of Russian enterprises in this industry is below average, which necessitates the acceleration and stimulation of innovative processes;
- the key mechanisms that make possible the rapid and highly effective improvement of the innovative background in the medical industry are the creation and support of industrial parks, technology parks and industrial clusters that promote the development of innovative processes and import substitution with greater efficiency than extensive subsidies for targeted strategic areas.
Igor R. Elistratov - N.N. Blokhin NMRCO, Moscow, Russia