Regional Foresight for Bridging National Science, Technology and Innovation with Company Innovation: Experiences from Russia

Alexey Kindras (), Dirk Meissner, Konstantin Vishnevskiy () and Mario Cervantes ()
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Alexey Kindras: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Mario Cervantes: National Research University Higher School of Economics

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Abstract: Whereas national and corporate Foresight are established instruments for anticipatory STI policy and innovation strategy respectively, regional Foresight is a rather new phenomena in this arena. Placed in between national and corporate Foresight regional Foresight can be considered to fulfill a briding role between the two by taking advantage of corporate Foresight done at corporations which are based in the regions and by orienting on the broader national Foresight and the related challenges covered by these studies. In addition regional Foresight also involves stakeholders who might be engaged in national as well as corporate but presumably these stakeholders play a more important and prominent role in the regional Foresight. Also it is understood that regional networks are important for the successful implementation of the results. Also at the regional dimension it shows that stronger personal linkages exist than in national or corporate Foresight. The article introduces and discusses two regional Foresight case studies in Russian regions, namely Bashkortostan and Samara. Regional Foresight in both case studies was designed to mirror the quadruple helix instead of focusing on the triple helix only as it is done in many other regional Foresight cases, e.g. the focus was extended beyond the science, government and industry stakeholders by including civil society as well. However the limitation of the case studies is the modest participation and representation of the innovative industries sectors which is also due to the common weakness of Russian industry overall. Still it is found that both cases created reasonable momentum for developing the regions in the STI dimension but also even broader in the economic and social welfare dimension.

Keywords: regional foresight; roadmapping; scenarios; BRICS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O11 O18 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2014
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Published in WP BRP Series: Science, Technology and Innovation / STI, October 2014, pages 1-24

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