The System-Supplementing Effect of the Interaction
between Innovative Capacity and Institutional Environment Factors of a Region Cover Image

Системодополняющий эффект взаимодействия инновационного потенциала и институциональной среды региона
The System-Supplementing Effect of the Interaction between Innovative Capacity and Institutional Environment Factors of a Region

Author(s): Viktor Nikolayevich Ovchinnikov, Natalya Petrovna Ketova
Subject(s): Economy, Geography, Regional studies
Published by: Институт экономики Уральского отделения Российской академии наук
Keywords: innovative system of a region; regional innovation cluster; innovative activity; innovative and institutional environment; innovation infrastructure; system-supplementing interaction;

Summary/Abstract: In the article, the effect of interaction between the development level of regional innovative capacity and its innovativeand institutional infrastructure is traced. The research objective is to prove the hypothesis of the essential impact of theregional institutional and information environment on its innovative capacity, the identification of the effect of their systemsupplementinginteraction. From the standpoint of the methodology of system-structural research its components are allocatedwithin the innovative capacity of the regional innovative system (RIS), they are presented by a corporate sector, the structures ofsmall and medium business, and also by the subjects of ethnic economy. The use of essential-analytical and functional approacheshas revealed the leading role of intangible assets of the corporate sector of the economy in region’s innovative development. Thecorrelation and regression analysis has confirmed the essential dependence of the innovative activity of the region on the systemiccompleteness of the development of its institutional and infrastructure environment. The results of the research have shown thatto ensure the system-supplementing effect of the interaction between innovative capacity and the factors of its activation in thesphere of institutional infrastructure, it is necessary to consistently develop its operational base — the institutions of RIS. Therecommendations reasoned in the article may be used for the development of regional innovation strategies, the formation ofinnovation clusters. The three-component structure of the innovation cluster of the region is offered; its integrating functionin relation to the innovative components of the regional sectoral clusters is determined. The factors constraining the growthof innovation activity of the regional economic subjects are revealed and the recommendations on the development of theinstitutional and infrastructural environment of the Rostov region are substantiated.

  • Issue Year: 12/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 537-546
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Russian