Social and human science agenda of the innovation development

Supporting of the innovation development is one of the prioritygoals of Russian national strategy. Tasks of the building of national and regional innovation systems,development of the innovation infrastructure, perfection of relevant legislation have (already) beendiscussing during more than ten years. However there are some questions and problems that have beenpaid insufficient attention by the innovation community. These questions and problems are connectedwith influence of innovations to the individual and society. The authors believe that it is necessary tosupport professional discussion of social and cultural aspects of the idea and practice of the innovativedevelopment, to form relevant actual semantic space, to put forward new and original ideas in philosophical,social, cultural and anthropological sphere which would have increased understanding of theinnovative type of development and would have minimized social and human risks of the innovationprocesses.Innovation study is described as a new scientific field. This field is interdisciplinary and includesknowledge from economics, management, sociology and other fields of knowledge. Key issues of theinnovation study are the technological development and its economic efficiency. There is a lack ofunderstanding of what social and anthropological consequences does innovative development haveand what is its impact to the individual and society, country and the world community. There is a needto reconsider following challenges and problems: Challenge of the Risk Society. Constant innovation changes and renewals lead to instabilityand risk as a new norm of life. Challenge of the Social Gap. The modernization is fraught with social stratification, whenthe highly skilled specialists are involved into producing of the innovations, and low-skilled workersare engaged in a manual labor. Challenge of the Prognostication of the social effects of the technology development. The Problem of the Human Fatigue. For a modern people there is a need to educate and renewknowledge constantly. It leads to the information fatigue and generates new forms of escaping behavior,such as down-shifting, and new forms of resistance. The Problem of the Human Simplification. Constant innovations spread rapidly, that canlead to the formation of similar life styles and ways of thinking.This article includes analytics of the materials of the XIV Tomsk innovation forum INNOVUSthat was held in 2011. The Forum showed that the specificity of the Russian innovation discourse is itsideological genre. As a result social and anthropological problems could not be understood at theproper level.Nowadays the subject of innovation activity and its initiator is primarily a state government. Thatin fact has negative impact into the effectiveness of innovation policy. Innovation rhetoric risks tolose its energy and become a new "ritual language" of the administrative-bureaucratic elite. It wasdemonstrated on the Forum that there is a deficit of the regional innovation policy actors and authenticregional concepts. The most part of the used examples and concepts is taken from experience of othercountries.

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