Efficiency of regional mechanisms of state support of innovative activity: the case of Volgograd region

Abstract

The article deals with the obstacles to the systemic transition of the Volgograd region to an innovative development path. The main of them are the underdevelopment of the regional innovation infrastructure and the unavailability of the Volgograd universities as primary recipients of state support within the framework of the subprogram "Development of innovative activity" to active innovative activity outside the educational process.