Interaction between universities and forestry enterprises for the development university ecosystems in Russia

Abstract

The ubiquity of the ecosystem concept in many sectors of the economy and society makes it relevant to analyze new forms of integration between different participants of socio-economic relations. The interaction between universities and enterprises that contributes to the development of the higher education ecosystem can be singled out separately. The research is devoted to the study of both current and prospective forms of interaction of the "university-enterprise" type for the forest industry. It emphasizes the importance of sectoral, federal, research and mixed types of universities for forest industry enterprises. The research analyzed articles by Russian and foreign authors touching upon such topics as university-business partnership, university-enterprise integration, ecosystem approach at the university, ecosystem approach at the forest industry enterprise, models of interaction between universities and industry enterprises. The article analyzes and characterizes the main types of universities in the Russian Federation and identifies the forms of interaction with them for forest industry enterprises. In addition, other participants for interaction, different from the university and forms of integration with them are identified. The main obstacles to the integration of forest industry enterprises and universities are outlined. The paper concludes by presenting a model of the type "university-forest industry enterprise" and concludes that promising forms of interaction between the university and forest industry enterprise are: training in modern digital competencies and their adjustment for certain industry specific enterprises taking into account the real situation in practice; creation of joint forest research units; creation of a common mission and strategy, development of joint values.