ASSESSMENT OF THE REGION’S POTENTIAL FOR DEVELOPING INNOVATION AND PRODUCTION ECOSYSTEMS

The formation of innovation and production ecosystems is a matter of Russia’s national security and technological independence in the face of external geopolitical pressure and internal market shifts. The aim of this study is to develop an approach to assessing a region’s potential for developing innovation and production ecosystems based on a simultaneous assessment of regional economic indicators of the manufacturing sector, large businesses, and small and medium-sized enterprises in the region, as determining factors in the generation and diffusion of innovation. Using systems analysis, deduction, induction, and clustering, the study substantiates the hypothesis that the economies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation can be divided according to the development potential of their innovation and production ecosystems into regions with higher and lower potential. Based on the correlation between the gross regional product generated in the manufacturing sector by small and medium-sized enterprises and the total gross regional product generated in the manufacturing sector, the regional manufacturing specialization coefficient, and the gross regional product generated in the manufacturing sector per large enterprise in the region, the authors were able to divide the constituent entities of the Russian Federation into five clusters, each with low, medium, and high potential for ecosystem formation, based on their ecosystem development potential. The practical significance of this study’s results lies in the potential for using this approach to assessing the potential of regional economies to classify them based on their potential for developing innovation and production ecosystems and to use the findings to improve the effectiveness of innovation infrastructure management.

ecosystem potential, innovative production, industrial ecosystems, regional economy, ecosystem approach, regional potential, regional ecosystem, innovative ecosystem, potential assessment, ecosystem interaction

Ovchinnikova A. V., Zimin S. D. Assessment of the region’s potential for developing innovation and production ecosystems. Biznes. Obrazovanie. Pravo = Business. Education. Law. 2025;4(73):51—57. DOI: 10.25683/VOLBI.2025.73.1439.