Assessment of the level of innovation security of the subjects of the Volga Federal District

the article analyzes methodological approaches to determining the threshold values of innovation security indicators, provides a methodological approach to assessing the innovation security of a region based on assessing the threshold values of its innovation potential development, substantiates the use of the method for determining weighting coefficients based on statistical data processing, analyzes the values ??of anomalous parameters in the context of groups of innovation security indicators, which made it possible to identify regions with crisis and pre-crisis states of the level of innovation security. For each region, the final risk level was calculated as the sum of all indicators, which is interpreted as the index of innovation security of the region, on the basis of which the rating of innovation security of the subjects of the Volga Federal District was built. As a result of the study, methodological approaches to the quantitative assessment of the level of innovation security separately for each indicator were proposed, as well as a method for statistical assessment of the threshold values ??of the crisis zone, which made it possible to build a total index of innovation security and a rating of innovation security of the regions of the Volga Federal District. In conclusion, it is concluded that innovation security and innovation potential are not interchangeable concepts, do not have a linear relationship and may differ from each other in the measured parameters. To ensure innovation security, it is not necessary to have a leading position in all indicators of innovation potential; it is sufficient to comprehensively develop all areas of innovation activity, or to integrate into a higher-level innovation security system within the framework of one’s own specialization in achieving high indicators of innovation development in a specific area inherent only to a given region.

innovation security, factors, indices, methodology, threshold values, crisis zones