Abstract:
Modernization of an economy is determined by the vector of development of regional economic systems. Priority, here, is given to the principle of organizing a territory by clusters. There is a widespread expansion of organizational forms of inter-firm cooperation aimed at building closer links between firms and their suppliers and customers, as well as knowledge institutions engaged in innovation. The main feature of the information society, which is described in detail by Manuel Castells, 2000 is not so much the domination of information as the network logic of its use, which gives the disseminated information special qualities and functions.
Inter-company network structures, acting as generators for the development of regional innovation systems, define a new stage of the genesis of an innovative person in a particular institutional environment, dominated by horizontal network connections.
