Features and Problems of Development Regional Innovation Systems in the Context of Ensuring Russia’s National Security
https://doi.org/10.21686/2073-1051-2025-4-92-109
Abstract
In the context of intensifying modern challenges associated with growing geopolitical confrontation and the global economy’s transition to a new technological order, achieving technological leadership is one of Russia’s most important strategic development priorities in the context of ensuring national security. Implementing this priority requires addressing key issues and developing public policy measures aimed at developing the potential of regional innovation systems. The aim of this study is to identify the key characteristics and challenges of developing Russia’s regional innovation systems in the context of ensuring national security amidst growing challenges. The information base includes the works of leading foreign and Russian scholars on scientific and technological development, data from Rosstat, and the results of monitoring the scientific and technological potential of regions conducted at the Vologda Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Based on international and interregional comparisons, this study assessed the scientific and technological development of Russia and its regions from 2000 to 2023. Negative development trends were identified, including the fragmentation of national innovation chains, insufficient R&D funding, a certain loss of human resources, and high interregional disparities in the development of potential in this area. Therefore, a set of measures was justified at the federal and regional levels aimed at developing national innovation chains based on the use of the potential of interregional partnerships and the formation of a segment of participants whose activities are aimed at overcoming the “valley of death” in the innovation process.
About the Authors
V. A. Ilyin
Vologda Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ilyin Vladimir A., Corresponding Member of the RAS, Dr. Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Scientific Director
56a, Gorky Str., Vologda, 160014
A. A. Shabunova
Vologda Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Shabunova Aleksandra A., Dr. Sc. (Econ.), Associate Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Director
56a, Gorky Str., Vologda, 160014
S. A. Kozhevnikov
Vologda Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Kozhevnikov Sergei A., Cand. Sc. (Econ.), Head of the Center for Spatial Development of SocioEconomic Systems, Senior Researcher
56a, Gorky Str., Vologda, 160014
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Ilyin V.A., Shabunova A.A., Kozhevnikov S.A. Features and Problems of Development Regional Innovation Systems in the Context of Ensuring Russia’s National Security. Federalism. 2026;31(1):92-109. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21686/2073-1051-2025-4-92-109
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