APPROACHES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF COOPERATION BETWEEN HIGH-TECH COMPANIES AND UNIVERSITIES AS A MECHANISM FOR MANAGING THEIR INNOVATION ACTIVITIES
The urgency of developing cooperation between high-tech companies and universities is due to the high need for generating innovations in the national economy. After all, it is innovations that contribute to the formation of long-term competitive advantages and sustainable development. Taking into account the significant intellectual, technological, and production potential in the Russian Federation in the development of such cooperation, the purpose of the study is to develop proposals for the development of cooperation between universities and high-tech companies in Russia. The research methodology is based on the analysis of theoretical and practical approaches to innovation management using statistical analysis methods, induction and deduction methods, cause-effect relationships and comparison. The subject of the study is organizational and economic relations between universities and high-tech companies in the field of innovation. The results of the study are to identify trends in R&D financing in the Russian Federation and the world, which showed that today the main share of R&D financing falls on business (in the Russian Federation - 60.66%), the state (9.88%) and universities (10.63%), there is a positive trend in science financing in the Russian Federation, which indicates the financial capabilities of the Russian Federation for effective innovative development. The analysis of the literature showed that according to the theory of the triple helix by Henry Etzkowitz and L. Leidesdorf the main drivers of the innovation process are business, universities and political power, and therefore the author analyzes the best world practices for the development of such interaction on the example of Samsung, Intel, Boeing, Siemens and Yandex. It is shown that the development of cooperation between universities and universities allows both parties to benefit from long-term relationships, access to university research, and also gives the best students the opportunity to start their career in the company in the future. Based on the results of the research, the author formulated five key recommendations for the development of cooperation between universities and knowledge-intensive companies, which are based on the activation of the actions of all actors of the national innovation system, increasing control by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, stimulating universities and knowledge-intensive companies to develop cooperation, comprehensive support for such cooperation by federal and regional authorities, contributing to the improvement of legislation in the field of patenting to simplify the commercialization of innovations, developed within the framework of R&D in order to protect the interests of young scientists and researchers, as well as to increase the flexibility of universities and their readiness for such cooperation. The practical application of the developed recommendations will contribute to the development of the knowledge economy in Russia.