How are city’s technological priorities connected with the development of the cities themselves?
The development of a city is based on its regional advantages, specialization around those advantages and close integration with market demands. Cities develop and progress more rapidly when they have robust knowledge based sectors that are supported by academia, business and government. When cities can prioritize and support new technologies such as biotechnology and nanotechnology they attract new business, create new university resources and build additional infrastructure that results in wealth creation.
According to your experience what hinders Russian cities to become more attractive for world innovation companies (maybe cities choose wrong priorities)?
From my experience, Russian cities have not identified unique sector strengths based on true underlying capability, nor developed robust propositions that can be communicated to international companies. Russian cities must get very specific in terms of what they are good at and then have supporting grants and programs that align with those specific strengths.
Currently, Russian regional governments, local Russian companies, and Russian Universities have an insufficient understanding of the global marketplace, and this hinders the ability to communicate and market a region effectively. Additionally, governments do not have comprehensive grants and schemes that can be fully matched to the life cycle of innovative companies.
According to Strategy of Russian innovation development cities with population over one million people must design their own strategies of innovation development. What should be included in them in your opinion?
A strategy of innovation development should include a comprehensive description of all stakeholders in the innovation ecosystem, including: the role of government; a look at how business drives innovation; a discussion on how the region supports the research base; the role of IP and universities; a discussion on linking local innovation to the international marketplace; a view of how to bring innovation to the people of the region; and an analysis on how to teach and mentor young people and students in innovation.
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