Content №3 от 2005
Directions of innovative development of the Siberian research-industrial complex
In Siberia, apart from its resource sectors, high tech science-intensive industries of civil designation also can be profitable. But today they make no more than 0.5% to total production. This is the below-critical level of a less developed resource economy, which is behind the economic instability and blank outlook for economic growth. At the same time, the Siberian research and education complex can drive the advancement of science-based technologies. For this it strongly needs a government funded program of major innovative projects. In the first place it is the development and diversification of such key sectors as the fuel and energy complex, oil- and gas chemistry, ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, wood processing and cellulose industry, wood and coal fuel chemistry, agriculture, transport complex as well as a breakthrough in new science-intensive productions in telecommunications, medicine, public health. The paper considers objectives, structure and tasks of such a program. A conclusion is made that the present legal framework has been not quite satisfactory in tapping the scientific-technological potential of the academic organizations of Siberia for the benefit of the innovative activity in the region.
