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Authors : 1. Elena V. Kamko,
junior Researcher
Institute for Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2. Svetlana G. Kirdina-Chandler,
PhD (Economics), Doctor of Sociology, Head of the Department of Social-Economic Systems Evolution
Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Institutional structure of the russian national innovative system: path dependence – effect
Objective: to analyze the effects of the post-perestroika period of the 1990s on the existing national innovation system of Russia and to assess it the present stage of development.
Methods: the study used traditional methods of analysis, synthesis, description, analogy, systematization, and historical approach, and institutional analysis based on the categorical apparatus of institutional matrices theory.
Results: the article is an attempt to understand the problems of the modern national innovation system through the prism of the 1990s, which became the cause of its imperfections. It is emphasized that the systemic problems of the economy in that period made innovative development impossible, which led to the loss of intellectual capital of the country. The abrupt transition from a planned to a market economy without a smooth adjustment, accompanied by the reduction in public spending on research, led to the paralysis of innovation in the real sector of the economy, and reduction of high-tech industries. The negative influence was also produced by privatization, destruction of production chains due to the collapse of the Soviet Union, as well as domestic structural adjustment of the post-Soviet economies. In this regard, the authors investigated the
peculiarities of the Russian innovation system from the standpoint of institutional approach, including the problems of staff and investment resources deficit, and the historical dominance of the state in the organization of scientific research. Activity of the state is studied on the basis of the Russian venture capital analysis. The conclusions are formulated about the centralization of the institutional structure of scientific research and development. The possible directions of the national innovation system improvement with a view to achieve more effective results are specified.
Scientific novelty: the diagnostics of the problems of modern national innovation system is made in the context of institutional transformation of the Russian economy in the post-perestroika period.
Practical significance: the main provisions and conclusions of the research can be used in scientific and teaching activities in terms of the issues concerning the essence and principles of the national innovation system formation, as well as by specialists of state structures for elaborating the strategies of innovative development of the country.
Keywords :
National innovation system; Russia; Institutional analysis; Theory of institutional matrices; Venture capital; Path dependence – еffect
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Citation :
Kamko E. V., Kirdina-Chandler S. G. Institutional structure of the russian national innovative system: path dependence – effect, Actual Problems of Economics and Law, 2018, vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 149–160 (in Russ.). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21202/1993-047X.11.2018.1.149-160
Type of article : The scientific article
Date of receipt of the article :
20.12.2017
Date of adoption of the print :
14.02.2018
Date of online accommodation :
25.03.2018
