Transcript KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY FORUM IV Country Exercise: Russia Istanbul, March 22-24, 2005

KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
FORUM IV
Istanbul, March 22-24, 2005
Country Exercise: Russia
Diagnosis for Russia: Key issues to
address
 Russia’s
readiness for Knowledge
Economy: looking at three KE
“pillars” of four
 Missing link
 Need for a national development
strategy and tools to implement it
Diagnosis for Russia:
KE Readiness - Business Climate
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Underdeveloped legal system, high regulatory barriers
Poor rule of law, low security of property rights
Weak financial system, poor access to credit and to capital
markets
High level of black economy
Source - KAM, The World Bank
Diagnosis for Russia:
KE Readiness - Human Resources
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Poor link to labor market
Lack of flexibility of educational system
Weak Life Long Learning
Insufficient ICT skills and experience of ICT use
Low number of Internet users (2004, half year audience: Russia 16%, EU - 50%, Scandinavia - 70%)
Source - KAM, The World Bank
Diagnosis for Russia:
KE Readiness - Innovations
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Low share in world science intensive industry markets (2003 0,3%)
Low share of innovatively active enterprises in the economy
(Russia, 2003 - 9,5%, EU, 2000 - 50%, Germany, 2000 - >60%)
Low R&D spending in private sector (Russia, 2003 - <14%;
Germany - >60%)
Innovation gap between R&D and productive sector
Source - KAM, The World Bank
Diagnosis for Russia:
KE Readiness - Summary
Source - KAM, The World Bank
Diagnosis for Russia:
Key Causes of Problems
 Dependence
on natural resources
 Growing socio-economic divide
between social strata and territories
 Social passivity, very low
preparedness of population to get
involved in decision making
 Lack of development vector for the
country
Missing Link
Innovation System
Human Resources
Business Climate
Information
Infrastructure
Knowledge Economy
Partnership of key stakeholders:
government, business, civil society, research & education community
Objective of the Proposal
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To promote consensus building on development
goals
To make a national Knowledge Society
development strategy a part of political agenda
To address the key stakeholders (government,
business, civil society, academia)
– Respective government bodies at federal and regional
levels
– Renowned professional business associations
– Influential NGOs
– Leading research & education institutions
– etc.
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To gain critical mass of KE actors
Description of the Proposal
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Preparing a
national strategy
and action plan for
KE development
based on a
comprehensive KE
readiness
assessment $1,000,000
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Build on
– a distinct shift to
knowledge society
and innovation
intensive economy
in the recent
President’s
statements
– the address by a
group of
outstanding figures
to the President
Description of the Proposal
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Preparing regional
strategies and
action plans for KE
development $500,000 x 89
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Build on already
existing regional
initiatives and
ongoing programs
in Russian regions
e.g. Moscow,
Tomsk Region,
Republic of
Mordovia, etc.
Description of the Proposal
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Creating a monitoring
system for strategies
and action plans
implementation $3,000,000 per year
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Build on already
available products:
Knowledge
Assessment
Methodology (WB),
methodologies for
Russia and Russia’s
regions e-Readiness
assessment (group of
experts coordinated
by IIS.RU), and a
Knowledge Economy
Readiness Assessment
(IIS.RU & UNECE),
etc.
Description of the Proposal
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Building nation-wide
partnership for KE
strategy and action
plan implementation $1,000,000 per year
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Build on the Russian
e-Development
Partnership (over 260
organizations in 29
regions of Russia, 10
self-managed regional
segments); on the
newly established
Russian SocioEconomic Forum led
by M. Gorbachev; etc.
Description of the Proposal
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Promoting and
coordinating
available activities
- $500,000 per
year
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Build on ongoing
programs and
initiatives of
development
communities; on
collaborative tools
like Russia
Development
Gateway Network;
etc.
Institutions involved
Russian Ministry for Economic
Development and Trade - business climate
 Russian Ministry for Education and Science
- human resources, innovations
 Russian Ministry of IT and
Communications - information
infrastructure
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Regional governments
 Partnerships of key stakeholders
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Measuring Progress
 Share
of budget and matching
funding for KE strategies/action
plans preparation and
implementation
 Number of regional KE strategies
adopted and programs launched
 Level of inclusiveness (variety
and balance of stakeholders
involved)
Background Information
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Russian Federation
Delegation
– Irina Cherdantseva (Department of
Economy, Tomsk Region Administration)
– Tatiana Ershova (IIS.RU)
– Yuri Hohlov (IIS.RU; e-Moscow Program)
– Maria Sigutina (Russian State University for
the Humanities)
– Oleg Sokolov (Department of Science and
New Technology, Government of Republic of
Mordovia)
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Contacts: [email protected]