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Siberia as a factor in the Russian innovative progression: conceptual framework
The author emphasizes the urgency for Russia and for Siberia, in particular, to shift to the path of innovativeness. Only the radical increase of the share of intellectual work in the generated product can potentially provide the national economy with competitiveness, and the role of Siberia in this transformation is very high. Innovation mechanisms in the USA and Russia are compared, and approaches to estimation of the effect of innovative activity as well as analysis of some innovation projects to be implemented in the Novosibirsk Academic Centre are discussed. At the end of the paper certain results of the efforts on creation of the network innovation infrastructure are presented.