Technological Entrepreneurship in Regional Universities of Russia: Factors of Containment and Acceleration

Abstract

The role of universities in modern socio-economic systems of states is undergoing significant changes and involves the actualization of approaches to defining the functions of educational organizations. At the same time, university startups are viewed as the most dynamic elements of regional economies, capable of creating export-oriented science-intensive products and new high-tech jobs. Transformation and development of regional entrepreneurial ecosystems using as a trigger for academic entrepreneurship of universities to stimulate the powers of the subjects of the federation of the process of formation of start-ups by universities in cooperation with local or global enterprises of the real sector of the economy.The study aimed to analyze the factors that stimulate and hinder technological entrepreneurship in regional universities in Russia. A review of the approaches used in the world’s leading universities, creating successful entrepreneurial ecosystems, is carried out, the key factors that determine the productivity of such ecosystems are highlighted. It is noted that in most constituent entities of the Russian Federation, it is not possible to implement a set of basic factors that contribute to the involvement of RIA in the regional economy, including in local universities, as well as in horizontal network interaction of startups founded by graduates or employees of regional universities.The functions for the university’s management of the transformation of regional ecosystems in entrepreneurial universities and the formation of university ecosystems are proposed.