Transforming relationship between neopatrimonial state and business for the sustainable development: Cluster Governance model

Abstract

Transforming relationship between neopatrimonial state and business in Russia are examined from the perspectives of sustainable development and "networkisation"of the business. We consider it on the basis of the innovation clusters formation as regional collaborative communities, the transition to Cluster Governance model as a new advanced form of the innovation process organisation, and environment factors of this transition. As a factor holding back this transition in Russia, the dominance of the "technocratic"approach to digitalisation of public administration is noted with an underestimation of the environment and human factors and the mechanisms of informal correction of power-bureaucratic decisions. In the context of ensuring the economic development sustainability the following effect is important: reducing cluster governance to traditional management due to the fact that the cluster is transformed into a vertically integrated holding, which is a reduction of the pluralistic and heterogeneous structure to a monistic and homogeneous one. The relevance of these risks to sustainable development of Russia is associated with the neopatrimonial nature of the current model of government with the high role of its informal component. The paper raises the question of measuring the influence of informal relations on the decision-making processes performing by government bodies.