Social and cultural innovation: on the possibility of quantitative assessment

The research is oriented on the depiction of social and cultural specifics of the Tomsk region as the locus of modernization and innovation. That type of analysis is the necessary pre-condition of modernization itself and includes demographic analysis, labour market potential assessment, predominant types of economic activity analysis, stratification patterns evaluation and the possibility of the creative class formation analysis. Hence, the central objective is to assess the possible impact of Tomsk regional social and cultural resources (in both, their quantitative and qualitative aspects) upon the regional modernization and innovation strategy. That type of goal involves complex analysis of regional social issues, an outline of the factors determining the regional demography, stratification, social policy, cultural transformation, forms and means of population adjustment, actual cultural resources and cultural capital and the possible scenarios of innovation. The research outcome includes an outline of the methodology of the assessment of regional social and cultural resources innovative potential, description of the key groups of the population supporting and opposing modernization and innovation, constructing and testing of the research instruments, construction of the indicators of the regional innovative development. The results will be presented in the form of four articles, the research report and will include the recommendations for the regional political and business elite concerning the ways and means of inclusion and mobilization of pro-innovative groups of the regional population.

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