International Scientific and Technical Cooperation in the Strategic Development of Russian Regions

The purpose of the work is to identify the interdependence of the level of international scientific and technical cooperation (ISTC) of Russian regions with the level of their economic development.The research methods are correlation and regression analysis, comparative analysis, elements of the methodology of foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor of Moscow State University V. L. Kvint.Results: For the full sample of Russian regions, there is no significant correlation between per capita GRP and the level of scientific publication activity, both in general and for publications written jointly with scientists from the USA, Germany, Great Britain and China. At the same time, the share of scientific publications in international cooperation in all of these countries, except the United States, has a slight positive relationship with the level of GRP per capita. For a sample of 76 constituent entities of the Russian Federation (which does not include a number of sparsely populated regions with a high level of contribution to the economy of the extractive industry), publication activity, as well as the relative number of joint publications with scientists from these countries, has a pronounced positive correlation with the level of the economy. The greatest contribution to this influence is made by Moscow and St. Petersburg, while a number of regions (Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Leningrad regions) also demonstrate a high level of international cooperation in science with relatively low per capita GRP levels.The results obtained indicate that a positive relationship between the level of the economy and the number of scientific publications in the regions of Russia was revealed, and the obvious benefits of growing international scientific and technical cooperation between the regions were shown. The ISTS level is secondary in relation to other indicators of scientific productivity, but it can be used to identify the dynamics of scientific development and take it into account in the strategic management of regional development. With the reduction of scientific projects jointly with the countries of the USA and Europe, China is coming to the fore, cooperation with whose scientists is promising for the development of the ISTS of Russia.