INNOVATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE REGION: STATUS AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS
The relevance of the application of innovations by organizations in the region is justified by the rapidly changing consumer preferences at the micro level and the need to ensure the economic security of the country at the macro level. The innovative way of development of the economy of any region involves the constant improvement of all components of the economic system, including the innovative infrastructure of the region. The innovation infrastructure is one of the main elements of not only the regional, but also the national innovation system. The paper presents an analysis of the composition of the innovation infrastructure within the four component approach. In accordance with this approach, when studying the innovation infrastructure, the authors identified the following components: technological and organizational component, including technopolises, technology parks, business parks, etc.; financial component, including specialized funds, venture funds, budgetary funds, financial and credit organizations; a component that includes educational organizations and organizations that form an innovative culture in the region; innovative and legal component, including legislative acts, arrays of reference information on new developments, databases, data from patent offices. The analysis of the main results of innovative activity of organizations in the region is carried out. The authors focus on the fact that not only the volume and quality of implementation of specific innovative projects implemented by specific enterprises, but also the process of implementing innovative transformations in the region depend on the level of development of the innovation infrastructure. The methodological basis of the work was the work of domestic scientists in the field of innovation infrastructure research. In the course of the study, both general scientific methods and techniques (analysis and synthesis, tabular presentation of materials, methods of a systematic approach to studying the problem) and specialized ones (analysis of regional statistical data, monitoring of innovative activities of enterprises in the Omsk region with the involvement of sources of secondary information) were used