Lyudmila Oveshnikova (Editor)
Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow, Russia

Series: Russian Political, Economic, and Security Issues
BISAC: BUS020000

This monograph examines issues related to targeting innovative activities in the formation of priorities for the development of high-tech business using the Foresight approach. Theoretical principles and methodological recommendations are specified to give a definition to the essential comprehensive nature of the high-tech business targeting process, and the use of foresight tools, monitoring, models, mechanisms and a system of methods of influence based on the multivariance for its study.

The authors provide rationale for the applicability of peculiar properties of targeting to the assessment and modeling of high-tech business processes. Special emphasis is made on modeling “growth points” in high-tech business using econometric modeling, analysis and forecasting of innovation processes, as well as lines and methods of development of high-tech business.

This book brings up the most relevant issues of studying the process of targeting innovative activities in the process of formation of priorities for the development of high-tech business, based on the use of modeling methods and the Foresight Methodology. Currently, Foresight is most often used as a system tool for designing the future, which allows taking account of potential changes in all areas of public activity: science and technology, public, social relations, economy, and culture. Scientific and applied research using Foresight tools is widely used in France, the Czech Republic, the United States and some other countries. The authors of the monograph found a more detailed application of the methods of critical technologies, modeling, trend extrapolation, leading indicators methodology, technology roadmapping and a number of other methods for forecasting the future. Relevant data is generated based on the knowledge and experience of highly qualified experts.

Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 deal with a review of international practices of targeting innovative activities in high-tech business, making special emphasis on the definition of high-tech business and its role in the innovative development of Russia. In Chapter 3, consideration is given to the Foresight approach to the study of innovative activities in high-tech business; probable scenarios for the development of individual branches of science and technology are analyzed; potential technological horizons, as well as prospects for technological development, modernization of Russian economy and its competitive growth are outlined. Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 of the monograph present the results of monitoring and modeling the process of targeting high-tech business using Foresight tools. Accordingly, priority areas for the development of science and technology were revealed, identifying the very types of economic activity in Russian economy that are classified as “high-tech industry” and are “growth points”. Chapter 6 and Chapter 7 deal with the lines of development of innovative activities in high-tech business, taking account of the multivariance of approaches and the priority of their implementation.
(Imprint: Nova)