Инструменты государственной поддержки инновационного развития в Ленинградской области

Abstract

Promotion of innovation in the region depends directly on the effective stimulation of regional authorities and the commercial sector to actively develop all sectors of the economy of the country. The effectiveness of the process of innovative development in the regions is largely determined by the quality of the choice by government agencies of tools to implement the strategy of innovative development. In modern scientific research, the classification of instruments of state support for the development of innovation at the regional level has several types. We consider the main classification: direct and indirect tools to support innovative development and the specifics of their use. The basis of the toolkit for state support of innovative development of the region is the regulatory framework, we consider the normative and legal basis for development in the region, both in the form of regional laws and in the form of a regional development program. The article analyzes the composition of the program of social and economic development of the Leningrad region and its practical importance as a tool for state support of innovative development. Also, the dynamic process of innovation development in the Leningrad Region for the period 2014-2017 was studied, the main advantages and disadvantages of the region's innovative development, peculiarities of the infrastructure and the quality of using the existing potential of the region were revealed. The main instruments of state support of innovative development in the region are analyzed and the main ratings of innovative development are given. The importance of clustering in the region and creation of additional business parks and Nano-centers for the development of high-tech industries was noted and analyzed. On the basis of the analysis, the main problems of innovation development in the region and the main directions of development of the toolkit for state support of innovations were revealed. A special place is given to the features of innovative development, the potential and opportunities of the region, provided that the quality tools of state support are used.