| In the section | Articles |
| Title of the article | Institutional Effects and Innovative Development of Russian Regions |
| Pages | 113-135 |
| Author 1 | Svetlana Victorovna Doroshenko Doctor of Economics, Associate Professor, Head of the Sector for Research on Adaptation of Regional System Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the RAS 29 Moskovskaya St., Ekaterinburg, 620014, Russian Federation Professor of the Economics Department Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin 19 Mira St., 620002, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0002-8282-6062 |
| Author 2 | Irina Sergeevna Shorokhova Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin 19 Mira St., 620002, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID: 0000-0003-2854-4846 |
| Abstract | The heterogeneity of the national socio-economic space implies the assessment of regional peculiarities of innovation activity responses to localized sets of various resources that contribute to its activation. One of the most important elements in the composition of these sets of resources is the institutional conditions in the respective territory, the diversity of which at a given degree of technological and economic development can bear different results. These assumptions served as the basis for the present study, the purpose of which is to substantiate the manifestation of various institutional effects arising in Russian regions and to assess their impact on innovative development. In this study, the authors understand institutional factors as scientific and educational potential, the level of bureaucracy as one of the consequences of the local specificity of managerial impacts, the level of criminality, and entrepreneurial activity. The subject of the study is institutional effects resulting from the action of institutional factors affecting the innovative development of Russian regions. The aim is to assess the influence of institutional effects, i.e. scientific and educational environment, entrepreneurial, criminogenic, and bureaucratic, on the level of innovative development of regions. Panel data on 83 subjects of the Russian Federation for the period between the years 2000 and 2020 were used as the information basis. The peculiarity of the study is the use of the quantile regression method. The results of the study reveal positive influence of the effects of scientific and educational environment, and entrepreneurship and negative influence of the bureaucratic effect for all groups of regions. The inverse U-shaped relation between the criminogenic effect and innovation activity was confirmed for 80% of regions. It was found that the quality of institutions and the development of small entrepreneurship are more significant for regions with a low level of innovation activity than for regions that are innovation leaders |
| Code | 330.34 |
| JEL | C32, R1, R11, R15 |
| DOI | https://dx.doi.org/10.14530/se.2023.3.113-135 |
| Keywords | institutional factors, institutional effect, innovative development, scientific and educational potential, level of bureaucracy, level of criminality, entrepreneurial activity, evaluation, quantile regressions, region, Russia |
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| For citation | Doroshenko S.V., Shorokhova I.S. Institutional Effects and Innovative Development of Russian Regions. Prostranstvennaya Ekonomika = Spatial Economics, 2023, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 113–135. https://dx.doi.org/10.14530/se.2023.3.113-135 (In Russian) |
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| Financing | The study is conducted within the framework of the research and development plan of the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences for 2021–2023 topic ‘Institutional models and factors of social and economic adaptation of the region’s population in the conditions of transition to dynamic development’ |
| Submitted | 11.04.2023 |
| Approved after reviewing | 15.07.2023 |
| Accepted for publication | 20.07.2023 |
| Available online | 02.10.2023 |