 Russia's innovation system: reflection on the past, present and futureDina Williams International Journal of Transitions and Innovation Systems, 2011, vol. 1, issue 4, 394-412 Abstract: The current situation concerning science and innovation in Russia cannot be understood without an explanation and examination of the legacy of the Soviet period. The focus of the paper is evaluation of the pre-conditions for developing the national innovation system in Russia as well as current state of science and technology systems with a particular focus on the development of small business sector in the economy. The paper suggests that over the last two decades Russia's science system was able to maintain its innovation capacity in terms quality of research. At the same time, the innovation absorption capacity of industrial enterprises remains low while technology-based entrepreneurship failed to generate significant economic impact. The paper stress that the challenge of building the national innovation system is in creating environment that enable effective transfer of the results of research activities into development of new product and processes. Keywords: national innovation systems; NIS Russia; science and technology; S%T; technology-based entrepreneurship; technopreneurship; technoentrepreneurship; innovation capacity; research quality; technology transfer. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijtisy:v:1:y:2011:i:4:p:394-412 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Transitions and Innovation Systems from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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