THE FORMATION OF CLUSTER-NETWORK MODEL OF INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIP ON THE BASE OF “SMART SPECIALIZATION”

The cluster-network model of the economy organization concentrates the government authorities on the solution of the important public challenges by the development of top markets and innovations. The search for the regions’ “smart specialization” is the newest tendency in the sphere of cluster policy. Such specialization becomes the mechanism of transition to the postindustrial type of the economy development allowing the innovative partnership parties to diversify their activity at the simultaneous regional specialization enhancement. The paper covers the rationale of the significance of applying the “smart specialization” strategy as the efficient tool for regional innovative development in the domestic economy. To achieve the assigned tasks, the authors analyzed the definitions of such notions as “clusters”, “smart specialization strategy”, considered the preconditions for the advanced countries’ transition to the implementation of the “smart specialization” strategy based on the analysis of disadvantages of the existing innovative strategies of development. It allowed detecting the number of distinctive features of the “smart specialization” strategy. In particular, the authors marked the “process of business inventions” highlighting the necessity of participation of a wide range of business entities in the specialization and regional development priorities determination. It is established that, except the traditional groups of innovative partnership participating in the process of development and implementation of the regional development priorities (business, science, and state), the classification developed within the “smart specialization” concept involves the civil society, investors, and experts. The authors carried out the theoretical study of the feasibility to adapt the “smart specialization” strategy and the prospects of its applying in the national economic system and formulated the advantages of the applying the “smart specialization” strategy in the view of the critical necessity of transition of Russia to the innovative path of development. Based on the results of the study, it is established that the creation of cluster formation system on the basis of “smart specialization” will allow improving the efficiency of the domestic economy clustering by the technological retooling of the existing manufacturing industries, define the vector of interregional and international interaction in order to improve the investment attractiveness of Russian regions.