PECULIAR FEATURES OF FORMING A REGIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEM IN THE CHUVASH REPUBLIC BY THE EXAMPLE OF THE ELECTROTECHNICAL CLUSTER

Abstract

Formation of a regional innovation system in the Chuvash Republic today is one of the most important objectives of the economic development. However, the process encounters great difficulties. The proposed study is an attempt of authors to reveal the contributing and hindering factors for this process by the example of the most efficient in terms of innovations sector of the Republic. To fulfill it there was created for the first time a summarizing historical sketch of establishing an electro-technical cluster in the Chuvash Republic. The research has an inter-disciplinary nature, that is why to prepare it there was used a complex of scientific methods: a concept of the national innovative systems, as well as institutional, normative, historical, sociocultural and system approaches. Specific research results was revealing historical preconditions and primary stages of formation of the regional innovation system in the Chuvash Republic, determining specific features of this process in the Republic, revealing the most essential difficulties preventing the development, and conditions contributing to the achievement of an efficient result. The obtained conclusions have practical value for arranging the institutional part of the regional innovation system directly depending on the activity of the republican authorities.