On innovation policy management mechanisms: Russian practice and foreign experience
Based on the study of foreign and Russian practices, the article considers the mechanisms used in processes of the innovation policy management. It gives their clarifying understanding and also shows their role in the implementation of innovative changes. Following the documents of the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation, the author proposes a classification of innovative mechanisms highligting the most common of them. At the same time, against the background of Russian innovation practice, the main components of the mechanisms for managing the innovation policy of countries such as the USA, Great Britain and Switzerland (acting as leaders in many areas of world innovative development) are considered, the advantages and disadvantages of those mechanisms are identified and the directions for improving innovative mechanisms in Russia shown.