Digital Infrastructure of the Commercialization Process of Innovations in the Russian Economy

Abstract

In the innovation policy of many countries, much attention is paid to the development of the digital infrastructure of innovation activity. Researchers see the reason for the low level of innovation in the Russian economy in the inefficiency of the innovation infrastructure. The purpose of the study is to assess the adequacy of the model of the national innovation infrastructure to the goals of innovation development and the specifics of innovation activity. The research used the systemic method, the method of empirical observation, logical analysis, and content analysis. The conducted analysis of the state of elements of the Russian national digital infrastructure enabled to draw the following conclusions: (1) the existing platforms solve only part of the tasks at the stages of R&D, at the stage of commercialization of the R&D results, the infrastructure is ineffective; (2) work on the design and implementation of the digital infrastructure for innovation development is haphazard, fragmented; (3) the main reason for the problems is the discrepancy between the principles of centralized management embedded in state information systems, the decentralized, non-linear nature of innovation activity. The development of the architecture of the national innovation infrastructure of innovation activity based on the network model of interaction will eliminate the disadvantages of the existing systems and implement the advantages that network structures acquire.