DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS IN INNOVATION ECONOMICS: GLOBAL TRENDS AND THE RUSSIAN EXPERIENCE

Authors

  • Elena Nikitskaya
  • Meri Valishvili
  • Maxim Astapenko
  • Anna Namgalauri

Abstract

This paper examines the impact of agglomerative socio-economic systems on the scientific,
technical and innovation-driven development of national economies. Of special importance are
urban agglomerations which are growth poles fostering the spread of business activities from the
center towards the periphery, thus creating the momentum for the expansion of innovation
activities. Importantly, innovative asymmetry,present inside both individual States and macroregions, creates barriers to progress and a shift to a new technological paradigm. The authors
give a general description of agglomerations prevailing in international and Russian research and
an overview of agglomeration effects in traditional and innovation economy. This approach
constituted a starting-point for substantiating key factors affecting the intensification of
innovation activities in agglomeration areas. Considerable attention is given to an analysis of
changes in the main indicators representative of Russia’s national and regional innovation
development. The low innovation level of the Russian economy is due to a considerable
slowdown of innovation growth at the regional level. Statistics show that trends in the indicators
for innovative production point to innovative stagnation showing some signs of economic
growth. The conducted study concludes that there is a need, first, to mitigate disproportions in
the development of existing agglomerations in Russia and, second, to implement government
organizational and institutional measures aimed at controlling urban agglomeration development
as a basic condition for expanding a post-industrial economy.

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Published

2021-01-07

How to Cite

Elena Nikitskaya, Meri Valishvili, Maxim Astapenko, & Anna Namgalauri. (2021). DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN AGGLOMERATIONS IN INNOVATION ECONOMICS: GLOBAL TRENDS AND THE RUSSIAN EXPERIENCE. PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt / Egyptology, 17(10), 2728-2750. Retrieved from https://archives.palarch.nl/index.php/jae/article/view/5239