PROBLEM OF STAFFING FOR DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH TECHNOLOGIES IN RUSSIA IN THE MIRROR OF THE GLOBAL INNOVATION INDEX

Abstract

The article defines the role and the place of high technologies at the current stage of social development, descripts the role and the value of innovation for technological improvement of national economy, justifies relationship between level and intensity of innovative activity and rate of high technologies development. The analysis of such interrelation gives the chance of use the innovation index as indicator of development of high technologies. This conclusion is proved by intrinsic interpretation of the "high technologies" term, which is characterized by innovations. Basing on the Global Innovation Index, which is a study aimed at understanding economic process, author analyses positions held by Russia within general indicator, which is now regarded as indicator of technological level of national economy and level of economic development in general. Consideration of the essence of high technologies and drivers for technology development makes it possible to define two crucial factors: expenditure on R&D and the quality of human resources (mostly engineers, technicians and researchers). Research findings vividly illustrate problems of staffing such as the lack of young professionals in science and engineering, relatively poor performance of their intellectual activity, low efficiency of innovation that impede technological upgrading of economy.