Assessment of the Level of Technological Development in the Field of Research and Development: The Regional ‎Dimension
Elena V. Berezina1, Pavel P. Bochkovskiy2, Konstantin V. Lebedev3, Nadezhda A. Pluzhnova4

1Elena Berezina*, Scientific Research Institute  Federal Research Centre for Projects Evaluation and Consulting Services (SRI FRCEC), Moscow, Russia.
2Pavel Bochkovskiy, Scientific Research Institute  Federal Research Centre for Projects Evaluation and Consulting Services (SRI FRCEC), Moscow, Russia.
3Konstantin Lebedev, Scientific Research Institute  Federal Research Centre for Projects Evaluation and Consulting Services (SRI FRCEC), Moscow, Russia.
4Nadezhda Pluzhnova, Scientific Research Institute  Federal Research Centre for Projects Evaluation and Consulting Services (SRI FRCEC), Moscow, Russia.
Manuscript received on November 23, 2019. | Revised Manuscript received on December 13, 2019. | Manuscript published on December 30, 2019. | PP: 3495-3502 | Volume-9 Issue-2, December, 2019. | Retrieval Number:  B3873129219/2019©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijeat.B3873.129219
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Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine the existing approaches to assessing the level of technological development of the countries of the ‎world. Methods: Using the experience of previous studies, the article supports and develops ideas for constructing a ‎composite index, allowing to assess the level of technological development of the research and development ‎area at the subnational level. Results: ‎According to the level of technological development of the sphere of research and development with the use of ‎the proposed index, we compiled the rating of Russian regions. The factors, determining the gap in the level of ‎technological development in the sphere of research and development, are identified, and the size of the ‎existing gap between the Russian regions is estimated. In the course of the study, it was possible: to assess the level of technological development of research and ‎development at the subnational level; to identify the strengths and weaknesses that affect the level of ‎technological development of research and development; to identify Russian regions-leaders and regions-‎outsiders as a whole in terms of the level of technological development of the sphere of research and ‎development, as well as for individual “referent elements”; to conduct a comparative analysis of the level of ‎technological development in the sphere of research and development of Russian regions; to determine the ‎impact of each subindex on the composite index. ‎‎ Practical relevance: The necessity of developing a given approach is substantiated simultaneously at the sectorial and regional levels. There is a ‎composite index describing the level of technological development of research and development at the subnational level. ‎
Keywords: Scientific policy, Technical policy, Composite index, Complex index, Subindex, region‎.