Business Participation in the Development of Technoparks in the Electronic Industry of Russia

The article analyzes peculiarities of technoparks development in Russia and offers recommendations for strengthening the role of small and medium-sized businesses in the expansion of these innovative associations in the electronic industry, highlights the features and problems of the development of Russian technology parks. The key conclusion is that, despite a fairly large number of technoparks in Russia, the state still does not have a unified methodology for assessing their performance, the goals and key principles of their existence have not been defined, and the role of small and medium-sized businesses in technology parks has not been determined. The participation of small and medium-sized businesses in the development of Russian technology parks is fraught with a number of difficulties, including: lack of start-up capital and further financial support for companies; lagging small and medium-sized companies behind the pace of a rapidly changing technology and innovation environment. Despite the difficulties in the development of the electronic industry in Russia, technoparks have sufficient prospects and act as a tool for improving the situation in the field of Russian electronics. Among the author’s recommendations for strengthening the position of small and medium-sized businesses in the functioning of technoparks, including in the electronic industry, the following were proposed: improving the legislative framework in the field of technoparks functioning; expansion of both state support and non-state forms of support in technology parks; strengthening financing of small and medium-sized businesses in the system of relationships with large businesses; expansion of the cooperative model of functioning of technoparks in the electronic industry. The special need for close cooperation within the technology parks of small and medium-sized businesses and large companies was emphasized. General scientific methods of system analysis and synthesis, groupings, statistical methods, graphic methods and others were used as research methods in the work. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.