Innovation spillover effects of information and communications technology in higher education

Abstract

The modern education is developing under conditions of exponential growth in the creation and use of information and communication technologies and the intensification of innovation. The purpose of the research is to demonstrate the vertical and intersectoral spillover effects of the technological innovations and information and communication technologies spread and highlight their role in the development of higher education and the market of educational services. Using the methods of empirical, comparative, statistical and cartographic analysis in regions of Russia for 2013-2018, the indicators of the dynamics of the distance and online education, the number of students and universities, involved in the training for the IT sphere, the applications for state registration of computer programs and databases, that comprehensively characterize the distribution processes of innovative spillovers, were analyzed. One of the key factors of structural changes in higher education is technological innovation, the result of which is the emergence of new methods and directions of education, the development of distance learning, the formation of an electronic information and educational environment, technology platforms and resources as manifestations of the spillover effect. It has been established that technological innovations generate significant spillover effects, affect structural proportions and lead to the transformation of the labour market, change the structure of supply and demand in the educational services market, determining the requirements for IT specialists and determining the nature of future jobs, expand the number of segments and increase the capacity of the education sector and its contribution to regional economic growth. The influence of manifestations of spillover effects is necessary to account when planning and forecasting the qualitative and quantitative parameters of the development of higher education and the market of educational services.