Innovative Infrastructure: Concept and Characteristics

The problems of innovation development often consist in the wrong principles of infrastructure construction - the base on which the innovation activity of an enterprise, a region or even a country is located. What is such a base and what is its significance for the development of the system?

The concept of innovative infrastructure

Any system of social or production relations over time must take a fundamentally new level. Thanks to the gradual development of such a system, it evolves, improves, and its characteristics go to a new level. It is thanks to this progressive development that the process of developing the scientific and technical potential of the society is taking place, which gives impetus to the development of civilization as a whole.

In general, the development of innovation infrastructure involves large-scale processes, such as the formation of a new approach to government-wide management . Therefore, the formation processes are mainly applicable to the state scale and are based on the introduction of new projects within the same country.

Innovative infrastructure is the main mechanism of a fundamentally new activity of the existing system. This concept can be used with different meanings, but its essence boils down to the following: it is a collection of different structures closely connected with each other, which serve and stimulate the sprouts of innovation in the country.

Elements of innovation infrastructure

In our country the subjects of the innovative development structure are: innovation and technology centers, research laboratories of large universities, technological incubators, business centers, and others. This includes all organizations that stimulate innovative activity in various fields of science and economics.

Systems approach

Innovative infrastructure is developing and improving. Various approaches are used to monitor its development. The system method of investigating processes is the most universal. He explores the formation of an innovative infrastructure and consists in dividing the entire diversity of training centers and organizations into several blocks.

1. The financial unit is responsible for the development of the financial infrastructure, for attracting investments in scientific research centers, for effective mastering of various types of financial assistance.
2. The production and technology unit is responsible for carrying out experiments and experiments in the framework of ongoing research and projects.
3. The information block is responsible for covering scientific research activities in the media, preparing press releases, conferences, interviews, interviews.
4. The personnel block - provides employees who are able to attract new methods and knowledge to the system.
5. The advisory and expert unit includes organizations engaged in providing services on patenting, intellectual property protection , certification and standardization, as well as consulting services.
6. The sales unit is responsible for the attractiveness of projects for investors, creates commercial attractiveness for an innovative product, pushes the corridor from the research center to manufacturing enterprises in which serial production of innovative products is being established.

Creating an Innovative Infrastructure

For the formation of an innovative product, close interaction of researchers and scientists at the junction of several scientific disciplines is necessary. Hence the prerequisites for the creation of the final product, and the obstacles that hinder this process.

Factors that stop the development of the "innovation corridor" in certain regions of the country include:

• Lack of qualified personnel;
• Slow updating of production capacities;
• Weak state support for innovative undertakings and new research;
• Lack of information about the possible markets for the final product, including abroad.

Analysis of innovation infrastructure

As can be seen, the basic obstacles to the development of an innovative climate are, first of all, the lack of a methodical approach to popularizing scientific activity. Where the scientific potential is high, the infrastructure of innovation is disclosed in the context of all system blocks. With a shortage of resources, innovative activities in the region need support from the state and private investors.

Location of innovation centers

In Russia, the innovation infrastructure is concentrated near the most important scientific and technological centers. First of all, this is Moscow and Moscow region with its huge research potential. In the capital, 652 organizations, 34 largest scientific enterprises operating under the auspices of the state, three leading nanocentres - the famous "T-Nano", the Zelenograd nanotechnology center, the Nanotechnological center of composites, are successfully operating. The Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism is also successfully operating in the capital, one of the earliest scientific institutions in Russia. A lot of efforts for the development of innovative activities are being made by the Moscow government. So, thanks to his support, "Technopolis" was created - the leading industrial park, designed for the development and development of high technologies. The capacity of this research site is used by about 20 companies working in various fields of scientific activity.

Similar centers are located throughout the territory of the Russian Federation, near all major scientific and educational institutions with a good laboratory and research base. The infrastructure of innovation activity connects such centers with common developments and interests, cooperates with foreign partners, making possible the flow of investments into our country.

Results

Thus, the development of the infrastructure of innovative undertakings makes the work in the Research Institute of our state more attractive for both domestic and foreign scientists. The availability of state support helps to continue research. The final product can be realized immediately and bring commercial profit, and may not bear immediate commercial returns. Thanks to the developed set of measures, innovative infrastructure continues to develop and raise the scientific reputation of our country throughout the world.