Could Russia become more innovative? Coordinating key actors of the innovation system

Vercueil, Julien

doi:10.1080/14631377.2014.964464

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“…For instance, existing science policies do not target the weak intranational collaboration structures and isolationist stances of top research organisations. Supporting strong players has officially become a focus of Russia’s regional science and innovation policies (Vercueil 2014 ), so further regional centralisation should be expected. The enactment of key performance indicators, expected to boost Russian scholarship indexed in the Web of Science, does not decrease the importance of journal gateways.…”

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Science system path-dependencies and their influences: nanotechnology research in Russia

Karaulova¹,

Gök²,

Shackleton³

et al. 2016

Scientometrics

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In this paper, we study the influence of path dependencies on the development of an emerging technology in a transitional economy. Our focus is the development of nanotechnology in Russia in the period between 1990 and 2012. By examining outputs, publication paths and collaboration patterns, we identify a series of factors that help to explain Russia’s limited success in leveraging its ambitious national nanotechnology initiative. The analysis highlights four path-dependent tendencies of Russian nanotechnology research: publication pathways and the gatekeeping role of the Russian Academy of Sciences; increasing geographical and institutional centralisation of nanotechnology research; limited institutional diffusion; and patterns associated with the internationalisation of Russian research. We discuss policy implications related to path dependence, nanotechnology research in Russia and to the broader reform of the Russian science system.

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Science system path-dependencies and their influences: nanotechnology research in Russia

Karaulova¹,

Gök²,

Shackleton³

et al. 2016

Scientometrics

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“…World Bank experts have mentioned the increased volatility on the foreign exchange market and a depreciation of the national currency; restrictions on Russia's access to international financial markets have undermined domestic business and consumer confidence as well (World Bank 2015, 46). Macroeconomists warn of slower technological development and modernization of production capacities, the degradation of the institutional environment (Vercueil 2014), additional barriers to non-energy exports, and problems for the state budget (Čwiek-Karpowicz and Secrieru 2015).…”

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Perception of risks associated with economic sanctions: the case of Russian manufacturing

Golikova

Kuznetsov

2016

Post-Soviet Affairs

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This paper is focused on assessing the risk factors for Russian manufacturing firms posed by sanctions imposed on Russia by the EU, US, and other countries in 2014. While there is an extensive literature assessing the successes and failures of international sanctions on the economies of both those imposing and targeted by sanctions on a macroeconomic level, we are more interested in trying to understand the corporate response -i.e. which firms evaluate the introduction and increasing scale of economic sanctions as a threat to their corporate strategy, and their possible reactions aimed at adjusting to a changing environment due to the geopolitical shock. Our research, based on a recent survey of manufacturing companies, provides evidence that over the last decade Russian manufacturing firms have become much more integrated into the global economy than is commonly assumed, through foreign direct investment, foreign trade (including imports of both technological equipment and raw materials and components), international partnerships, and by extensively supplying foreign companies that operate in Russia. Considering the self-selection effect of the top-performing firms in terms of foreign trade, we can state that sanctions could prove most harmful not only for the targeted firms, but for the entire population of betterperforming and globalized firms involved in foreign trade with the EU and Ukraine. Thus, the impact of the sanctions on the prospects of the Russian manufacturing sector may be very strong over the medium-to-long term.

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“…Hydraulic fracking entered with the joint ventures established in the early 1990s, but the basic technique had been developed in the Soviet Union in the 1950salthough it was not applied. Horizontal drilling was introduced in Russia by the international oil services company Schlumberger in 2000 (Gustafson, 2012 (Vercueil, 2014).…”

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Does Russian unconventional oil have a future?

Kryukov

Moe

2018

Energy Policy

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Russia is estimated to hold the world's largest technically recoverable shale-oil resources. The conventional oil resource base is still very large, but there are doubts about how much is economically recoverable. Increasing attention is given to unconventional oil. The purpose of the article is to assess whether fundamental conditions for sustainable, profitable production of unconventional oil are in place. Compared to the successful development of unconventional oil in the USA, Russia has several disadvantages. The Russian oil sector is dominated by big companies without the flexibility in methods and decision-making required in very heterogeneous unconventional projects. Infrastructure is less accessible in Russia than in most American projects. On a more fundamental level the relatively poor condition of geological data collections is a serious cost increasing factor, and the system for development and dispersion of new technologies has critical shortcomings. Russia lacks appreciation of risk taking and a corresponding regulatory framework, as well as relevant financial mechanisms. Nevertheless, government documents almost exclusively focus on technology as such as well as on taxation and tax benefits as preconditions for successful development. Without addressing the fundamental institutional problems, the potential for exploiting the resources base will be limited.

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Could Russia become more innovative? Coordinating key actors of the innovation system

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Science system path-dependencies and their influences: nanotechnology research in Russia

Science system path-dependencies and their influences: nanotechnology research in Russia

Perception of risks associated with economic sanctions: the case of Russian manufacturing

Does Russian unconventional oil have a future?

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