Financial, Institutional and Personnel Threats to Innovative Development of the Region

Purpose – revealing and summarizing the opinions of experts representing regional authorities and business structures regarding threats to the development of an innovative economy. Research methods: expert assessment of threats to the development of an innovative economy. For processing and summarizing data, fuzzy logic methods are used. Results. Among the threats that could have a negative impact on the development of innovative economy, there are none that are rated as "very high" by both groups of experts. All threats related to financing were highly appreciated by business representatives. The authorities are more optimistic about this group of threats, only five out of eight are rated as "high" in terms of a general indicator that reflects the strength of influence and the likelihood of implementation. The highest, in their opinion, is the threat of a low level of budget financing of science and higher education. In the group of institutional conditions, according to entrepreneurs, the highest threats are related to the lack of state support for joint projects of universities and enterprises to create high-tech industries and insufficient protection of intellectual property. According to representatives of the authorities, these threats are of medium importance. Personnel threats are few, but rated by both groups of experts as very high or high.