CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS FOR IMPLEMENTING STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUSSIAN AGRO-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX (PROBLEMS AND JUDGMENTS)

DOI 10.33305/262-3

Issue № 2, 2026, article № 1, pages 3-14

Section: Agrarian policy: problems and decisions

Language: Russian

Original language title: КОНЦЕПТУАЛЬНЫЕ ОСНОВЫ РЕАЛИЗАЦИИ СТРАТЕГИЧЕСКИХ НАПРАВЛЕНИЙ НАУЧНО-ТЕХНОЛОГИЧЕСКОГО РАЗВИТИЯ АПК РОССИИ

Keywords: SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT, INNOVATION RENT, SECTORAL SCIENTIFIC FUNDS, SCIENTIFIC AND CREATIVE COLLECTIONS, RESEARCHER MOTIVATION, SCIENT METRICS, PROJECT MANAGEMENT, AND DIGITAL TRANSPARENCY

Abstract: The article is conceptual and debatable on how to increase the effectiveness of scientific and technological development by changing the management architecture and research funding model. The goal is to argue that the key limitation is not so much the amount of budgetary allocations as institutional defects: departmental fragmentation and the weak integration of scientific organizations into economic incentives, which often results in a lack of sustainable demand for their products. The innovation complex is proposed to be described as three levels: fundamental and humanitarian research; applied research and R&D; and mass inventions and rationalization. The management of levels should be autonomous, but connected by a common incentive - innovation rent. The study proposes a redistribution of management functions: the fundamental/humanitarian block - under the auspices of the academic center, the applied - through industry-specific contours (ministries/large corporations and industry-specific scientific foundations), and "people's innovations" - through regional and corporate foundations. It is assumed that the financing of applied research will be predominantly extrabudgetary, due to the institutionalized innovation rent with a regulatory distribution between customers, scientific creative teams, and implementing entities. At the same time, the motivation of researchers is enhanced through a combination of project management, royalties, and alternative scoring of results. For transparency, a digital framework for supporting innovation cycles (including blockchain tools) is proposed. The discussion of the work and the need for further discussion in the periodical press and at scientific events are based on serious prerequisites: the measurability and legal regime of innovation rent, the risks of “departmental corporatization” of science, the feasibility of the proposed reform in a short time, the design of quality metrics, and the balance between the freedom of scientific research and the manageability of the project portfolio. These issues form a natural agenda for further scientific discussion and empirical verification.

Authors: Savchenko Evgenii Stepanovich, Ushachev Ivan Grigorevich, Kolesnikov Andrei Viktorovich