Assessment of Sustainable Development of the Region’s Innovation System Based on the Concept of the Triple Helix Theory

¹ Scientific-Research Institute of Regional Economy of the North “M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University”, Yakutsk, Russia
² Federal Research Centre “The Yakut Scientific Centre of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, Yakutsk, Russia

^* Corresponding author: ene01@yandex.ru

Abstract

The article is devoted to the methodological aspects of assessing the sustainability of the regional innovation system and assessing the contribution of the triad participants (education / science, business, government) to the overall region innovative development based on the Triple Helix model. The system of indicators has been determined, which allows to study the region innovative development as a whole and separately pursuant to the blocks of indicators of the triad. Integral rating assessments of the innovative development of the northern regions of Russia of the resource type for the period from 2010-2019 were performed, on the basis of which the levels of innovative sustainability of the regions were calculated and the shares of the contribution of the triad participants in the overall region innovative developmental economy were determined. The authors believe that the proposed methodological approach (algorithm) based on the Triple Helix model adequately solves the assessment of the level of sustainability of the innovative development of regions and the assessment of the contribution of the Triad participants to the overall region innovative development. In order to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the activities of the participants of the triad, innovative profiles of the regions have been built, which allow the executive bodies of local government to make appropriate regulatory and managerial decisions aimed at improving the weak positions of the activities of the participants in the triad. The main advantages of using this method include the simplicity of performing numerical calculations based on the standard Microsoft Excel platform, the use of official statistics that exclude the effect of subjectivity arising from the use of various weight coefficients. The obtained study results may be used by regional authorities to adjust the existing program documents in the field of innovation policy, as well as by various economic and social actors for monitoring and predictive assessment of the innovative development of their industry.