Personnel Component in Innovation Potential of Social and Economic Systems

Abstract

The definition of personnel component in innovation potential is an essential factor in its assessment and development. An integral condition of developing the personnel component in innovation potential of social and economic systems is a high-quality training of qualified personnel in accordance with requirements of innovation economy. The age of drastic changes requires new forms of teaching and thinking in business, in occupations and, of course in education. In this sphere Russia should re-orient efforts from personnel training for fundamental science and higher school to training of practice-oriented specialists, who can manage innovation, reform the world for the better in constructive collaboration with surroundings. A structural scheme of personnel component in innovation potential advanced by the article from the point of view of resource approach can allow to interpret it as a totality of human resources possessing a certain (necessary for participation in the innovation process) set of competences, experience and labour behavior that take part in economic activity of social and economic systems (employed in economy). Attempts to assess the personnel component in innovation potential of today’s Russia resulted in identification of the following aspects: 1. Reducing the absolute number of personnel employed in research and development; 2. Serious differences in the character of shaping and using the personnel component in innovation capital in different countries; 3. Structural shifts in the pool of researchers and developers in respect of their degree, age and field of science; 4. Considerable growth in the pool of researchers and developers of university graduates without work experience.

Keywords

• человеческий капитал
• инновационный потенциал
• инновационное развитие