Mechanisms for the Youth Involvement in Innovative Activity in the Union State
This article was prepared under the grant of Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation № 12–22–01006 «Development of mechanisms of support of interstate integration in the innovation sphere». The article describes some issues related to the youth involvement in the innovative activity. The authors consider certain mechanisms used by innovation process actors (government, universities, employers, science and technology parks and business incubators) in the framework of integration processes between Russia and Belarus. The authors emphasize that the development of the interstate mechanisms of the youth involvement in the innovative activity is one of the promising areas of integration of Russia and Belarus. Such integration has been determined by the long history of relations between higher education institutions and enterprises of two countries, the implementation of joint projects and innovative youth within the USSR. This article provides an overview of the current status of ongoing projects in a considered direction. As an example, there is the activity of a business accelerator ‘Youth Innovation Centre’ (‘YIC’). There are also recommendations for the further actions of Russia and Belarus in the sphere of innovative-oriented staff training.