Abstract:

In the process of innovation activity, as a rule, a large number of economic agents from different sectors of the economy are involved, with significantly different goals of activity and the ability to access resources. In this regard, some integral structural constructs covering a significant number of heterogeneous economic agents united by interaction related to the implementation of the innovation process have been considered as objects of the state's efforts to reach the desired development trajectory

The paper attempts to overcome the methodological contradiction that the holistic model of the innovation ecosystem is destroyed when designing tools to influence it in order to set the desired development trajectory. The solution to this problem is supposed to be through the allocation of the core of the innovation ecosystem. Within the framework of the proposed methodology, the innovation ecosystem can be represented as a graph, the vertices of which are the subjects of the innovation ecosystem, and the arcs characterize the presence of a certain type of interaction between them, the intensity of which is proportional to the length of the arc. The core of the innovation ecosystem will include the objects that have the closest connections in terms of a set of characteristics. The proposed methodology was tested on the example of a fragment of the innovation system of the Orel region, which includes traditional elements of the triple helix: universities and companies in high-tech sectors of the economy.