Specific features of high-tech and medium-tech industries innovation development in Russian economy

It is necessary to know innovationactivity objective laws, problems and specific features for its successful management at the federal and regional levels. This article isdevoted to the specific features of innovation activity in different industries classified by their technology intensity. According to thiscriterion the following branches may be defined: high-technology industries; medium-technology industries (including medium-hightechnologyindustries and medium-low-technology industries); low-technology industries. High-tech industries are acknowledged asprior for world economic development. But would they become the focus of Russia innovation growth? To answer this question wedescribe foreign experience of high-tech industries growth and argue that this experience direct imitation would be impossible in Russia.Alternative innovation strategies (imitation strategy and strategy of technological breakthrough) proposed at the Russian economic congressare also examined. To define industries development strategies we analyse economic and innovation statistical key figures describingRussias high-tech and medium-tech industries. High-tech industries innovation indicators are higher. But high-tech industries economicindicators are incommensurable with the medium-tech industries and raw materials industry indicators. For example, chemicalindustry, metal manufacture, coke and petrochemical industry and raw materials industry are the leaders in export income in Russiaeconomy. High-tech industries economic and export indicators are very low and do not increase. On the ground of this analysis we makethe conclusion that high-tech industries in Russia will be directed to domestic market and would not change Russia export structure.According to the analysis we propose the next complex of Russia innovation development strategies: 1. High-tech industries besidesaircraft manufacturing - imitation and import substitution strategy; 2. Export medium-technology industries (chemical industry, metalmanufacture, coke and petrochemical industry) and raw materials industry - transfer strategy from raw material export to finished products;3. Sixth technological mode industries (nanotechnology, gene technology, information technology) - strategy of technologicalbreakthrough. For each strategy we define financial sources, government incentives and factors, which would resist the industries development.All in all on the ground of this analysis we define specific features of high-tech and medium-tech industries in Russia and redeterminetheir development strategies. It is shown that these strategies have to be realized together and simultaneously.

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