The Role of Human Capital in Providing Innovation Security of the Region
The Role of Human Capital in Providing Innovation Security of the Region

Summary/Abstract: Innovation security is one of the most important imperatives of sustainable development of the region in the long term. The primary task of providing innovation security in the region is to build and maintain its human capital, which is an embodiment of knowledge, competencies and motivations, concentrated in a particular area that are inseparable from their possessors. Article considers the major vital interests and threats to the region in the context of the development of its human resources component of the regional innovation system. The catalyst and inhibitor factors of building the capacity of the regional innovation system, affecting the overall competitiveness of the region are highlighted. The development of human resources component of the regional innovation system of the westernmost subject of the Russian Federation, an exclave on the Baltic Sea – the Kaliningrad region, is evaluated in the logic of innovation security approach. The role of human capital in the provision of innovation security of Kaliningrad region is shown.

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