Importance The article focuses on the specifics of the region’s innovation security evaluation. Objectives The research represents a comprehensive evaluation of innovative security of the Russian regions so to identify catalysts and threats influencing the sustainable development of the regions’ innovative systems in a long run. Methods I applied my own comprehensive techniques for evaluating innovative security of regions at the mesolevel. The techniques are presented as the matrix of 50 mutually related indicators and based on structural specifics of innovative security as a system and correlation of its components with subsystems of the regional innovative system. Results I evaluated innovative security of the constituent entities in the Northwestern Federal District of Russia for 2014 and determined their types. The findings can be used to improve innovative policies of Russia at the macro- and mesolevels. Conclusions and Relevance All the constituent entities of the Northwestern Federal District, other than Saint Petersburg, do not demonstrate high level of innovative security. Saint Petersburg substantially outperforms other regions of the Russian North-West in terms of relevant indicators, being the factual pole of growth in the innovative system of the federal district.
Keywords: innovation security, regional innovation system
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