Comparative Assessment of Innovative Activity of Region's Economy Actors on the Basis of the Triple Helix Model

AbstractThe paper demonstrates an econometric method of quantitative assessment of innovative activity of region's economy actors of different levels on the basis of innovation dimensional space model, allowing to assess the role of every Triple Helix participant in the innovative development of the region as a whole, as well as broken down to a specific municipality, real economy sector, territory-specific innovative clusters etc.Regions of Far-East Federal District of the Russian Federation (FEFD) are taken to illustrate the research subject. The paper shows the results of numeric calculations related to express-analysis of the contribution of the main innovation actors – science/education, business, state – to the innovative development of the regions on the basis of 2012 statistics. It can be seen that the general level of innovative development of regions’ economy of the district under analysis is mainly determined by the innovative activity of science/education. This outcome indicates insufficient mobilization and application of the creations of human mind, made in the universities and R&D centers, in the development of the region's innovative activity.Ranking comparative analysis demonstrates, that the ranking, made according to the method of the authors, reflects the innovative development of FEFD actors in general and does not differ much from the results of other rankings, which proves this method effective.The proposed method and outcomes of the econometric calculation may be used by executive bodies of the government, business entities, research centers and educational establishments to take various managerial decisions about innovative development of region's economy, strategies and economy development programs of different levels