24th Jan 2008

The 2007 Ukraine and Russia Inno Policy TrendChart country reports were presented during a final dissemination workshop hosted by the Russian partner IMEMO in Moscow on 24th January 2008.

The workshop was attended by about 35 people including representatives of the President’s Administration of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Delegation of the EC to Russia. The reports describe and evaluate in detail the national innovation systems that currently exist in the two countries.

The reports also highlight the three main innovation policy challenges faced by each country. In Russia, the challenges are: 1) Increasing R&D expenditure up to 2,5% GDP and increase non budget expenditure up to 70% of national R&D by 2015; 2) Increasing the number of innovation enterprises; and 3) Reforming and streamlining the research sector so that it becomes more dynamic and responsive to innovation needs. In Ukraine, the challenges are: 1) Encouraging innovation activity in the business sector; 2) Restructuring of the state R&D sector; and 3) Improving policy design and implementation by creating effective mechanisms for the generation and dissemination of innovation.

The country reports are available on the BRUIT project and Inno Policy TrendChart websites.