Региональные институциональные факторы участия российских предприятий в научно-производственной кооперации

Журнал институциональных исследований. 2026. Т. 18. № 2. С. 82–97.

Ershova N. V.

This article, based on a survey data from 1,860 Russian manufacturing enterprises, analyzes the
scale of enterprise participation in science-industry collaboration (SIC), defines the characteristics of
enterprises that are more actively involved in SIC, and identifies regional institutional factors that
contribute to increased enterprise participation in SIC using correlation analysis. It is shown that
Russian manufacturing firms are very inactive in terms of R&D and participation in science-industry
collaboration. However, most companies that have participated in SIC evaluate their experience
positively. The key barriers to the interaction of business with research organizations are the long
lead times for research work, as well as its high cost and insufficient quality. Research institutes and
scientific organizations, but not the universities, are the main partners of Russian enterprises in the SIC.
Large and older enterprises, actively investing enterprises striving to increase the technological level,
modernize production and improve the competitiveness of their products, as well as firms participating
in international trade and entering foreign markets, demonstrate a higher propensity to participate
in the SIC. The correlation analysis has shown that the activeness of participation of enterprises in
SIC on the regional level is largely determined by such factors as the quality of human capital (the
availability of qualified scientific personnel – present and future), the saturation of the regional scientific
and educational infrastructure, as well as the development of knowledge-intensive service industries and
patent activity in the region.

Keywords: человеческий капитал, регионы, обрабатывающая промышленность, институты, institutions, regions, российские предприятия, Russian firms, научно-производственная кооперация, manufacturing enterprises, human capital, science-industry collaboration