Formation of Productive Innovative Entrepreneurship in Conditions of Limited Access Order on the Example of Russian «Resource-Type» Regions

Abstract

The paper analyzes the institutional characteristics of the productive entrepreneur, aimed at creating innovations in «resource-type» regions of Russia. The modern Russian economy has features of dual enclave economy with an isolated export-oriented commodity sector. Based on the previous hypotheses on the relationship between institutional systems and types of entrepreneurship, a research is carried out on presence of «non-productive entrepreneurship» determined by the prevailing model of the institutional environment of limited access order, what is typical for the dual enclave economy of Russian «resource-type» regions. On the basis of sociological studies conducted in resource regions of the Krasnoyarsk krai and the Kemerovo oblast, it is concluded that productive entrepreneurs do not become actors of change because of such elements of the limited access economy as weak protection of property rights, a state manipulated, formed on the basis of the ruling coalitions consisting of the bureaucratic structure and large business, weak sanctions for rent-seeking. The transition from an innovative system of «technological push» (fundamental knowledge demanded by the state) to an innovative system of «market pull» (innovation demanded by business) is impossible in a way traditional for highly developed economies of the Western type through, what is true both for the Russian economy as a whole and for its resource regions, in particular. In order to form a new type of social contract between government, society and business with an institutional environment of order more «open» for an access to political and economic trades, it is more reasonable to transit to the mobilization model of the «triple helix» building the relevant relations within the development institutes of the Russian regions (strategic partnership of science and education, business and government, and the population).

Keywords

• economy of limited access order
• dual enclave economy
• innovation
• institutions
• routines
• productive innovative entrepreneurship