Regional Innovation Security: a Dynamic Approach to New Challenges for the Western Borderland of Russia

Abstract

Humanitarian workers operate in complex environments with various challenges and demanding working conditions. These challenges put aid workers in a range of risks and under the pressure. However, human resources are crucial for success of humanitarian operations in general. At the same time, each humanitarian operation is reliant on logistics and logistics activities are always connected with logistic staff. Understanding what motivates logisticians to join the humanitarian sector is essential information for humanitarian organizations and for recruiters within. Also, knowing which factors influence motivation and job satisfaction of humanitarian logisticians could help the organizations to struggle with the extremely turnover they have to face. Up to this moment, needed skills and the performance of humanitarian logisticians were examined. Also, the motivators of humanitarian workers are covered in previous research. Therefore, the additional aim of this research is to extend the knowledge about the human resources in humanitarian sector as well.

Typology of Western Border Regions of Russia by the Level and Specifics of Innovation Security Problems

“…This paper presents the multi-level typology of western border regions of Russia accordingly to the character of risks within the geo-economic turbulent situation and the level of their innovation security, measured in both static and dynamic (cyclic) extent, and also in relation to the qualitative characteristics of innovation development and regional innovation policy. Accordingly, to this purpose, the methodology of the research includes the set of statistic methods developed in our previous research within the dynamic approach and approbated, being applied to Rostov region and Kaliningrad region as the representative regions of the Western Borderlands of Russia [33]. This approach is based on the groups of indicators related to the consequent stages of innovation reproduction cycle and is aimed at identifying disconnections between them as the 'cyclic gaps'.…”

“…The same takes place in the cases when the clustering involves the interaction between educational sector and business [31]. But despite the fact that the innovation and related sectors' clustering in Russia after 2014 is caused mostly by the same reason, that is the need for import substitution [32], the differentiation of the possibilities for such clustering and the level of innovation security is identified for the regions of the South-West and North-West (as the latter are more deeply integrated into the European space, up to the least stable exclave Kaliningrad region) [33].…”