DIRECTIONS OF IMPROVING INNOVATION INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SUPPORTING INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES IN THE ARCTIC ZONE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
The work contains research related to the improvement and development of innovative infrastructure supporting industrial activities in the Russian Arctic. The paramount importance of the innovation infrastructure for the further innovative development of the mineral industry and socio-economic systems is substantiated. The main subsystems of the innovation infrastructure for supporting industrial activities in the Arctic are identified. Based on the analysis, the study of scientific works, domestic and foreign experience and practice, scientifically based and practical recommendations are developed to improve the efficiency of each of them. The main ones are acceleration of the adoption of the Federal Laws “On the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation”, “On Innovations and Innovation Activities”, “On State Support of Entrepreneurship in the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation”, the creation of industrial clusters, the transfer of non-core activities of enterprises to specialized service companies, raising the level of state investments for technological development of enterprises, creating branches of higher education institutions in small towns of the Arctic, participation in the project “Standard for staffing industrial growth” to improve the skills of workers, raising awareness of the further careers of participants in the training program for managerial personnel for national economic organizations of the Russian Federation, the use of cloud data storage to reduce duplication of information in the system of government. Implementation of the developed recommendations will enable us to intensify and improve the innovative infrastructure to support industrial activities in the Arctic. The performed studies will help to increase the number of organizations implementing technological innovations in accordance with the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 7, 2018. The main directions of further research to improve support for industrial activities in the Arctic are developed.