CORPORATE INNOVATION SYSTEM

В статье рассматривается предприятие с точки зрения системного анализа во взаимодействии с окружающей средой. Исследуется корпоративная инновационная система как составная часть организационной системы компании, формируемая осознанно, волевым решением менеджмента для эффективной реализации целей и задач фирмы. Отдельно рассматривается вопрос финансирования инновационной деятельности.Цель: разработка принципиальной модели корпоративной инновационной системы.This paper presents an enterprise in terms of the system analysis in interaction with the environment. A corporate innovation system is studied as part of the enterprise’s organizational system, formed consciously by a willful decision of the management to implement effectively the enterprise’s goals and objectives. The issue of financing of the innovative activity is studied independently.Objective: Development of the concept model of the corporate innovation system

Public-private partnership as a mechanism of education management in the structure of the social and investment model of economic growth

The goal of this research was to find the influence of each mechanism of financial management of education—in the structure of the social and investment model of economic growth—on the results in the sphere of its development: quality, quantitative accessibility, and development of digital skills with students. The study’s methodological approach involved the economic and mathematical modelling of (with the help of regression analysis) of the contribution of alternative investment mechanisms to the development of digital skills of the economically active population. We compared the contribution of isolated public and private investments to public-private partnership and proved its preference. We determined the place of the mechanism of education management based on public-private partnership in the structure of the social and investment model of economic growth. It was determined that the only manifestation of higher education’s development, which largely depends on financial support, is digital skills among the active population. The connection between digital skills among the active population and investments in higher education by the terms of public-private partnership is clear (regression—0.47 points). An increase in the share of public-private partnership in the structure of financing of the development of higher education by up to 90% allows increasing digital skills among the active population from 61.49 points to 94.54 points—i.e., by 53.75%. Therefore, practical implementation of the social and investment model of economic growth should envisage financing of the development of higher education based on the mechanism of public-private partnership. It was proved that public-private partnership is a perspective mechanism of education management, which has an important role in the structure of the social and investment model of economic growth

The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes

This is the final version. Available on open access from Nature Research via the DOI in this recordData availability: All collapsed and paired-end sequence data for samples sequenced in this study are available in compressed fastq format through the European Nucleotide Archive under accession number PRJEB44430, together with rescaled and trimmed bam sequence alignments against both the nuclear and mitochondrial horse reference genomes. Previously published ancient data used in this study are available under accession numbers PRJEB7537, PRJEB10098, PRJEB10854, PRJEB22390 and PRJEB31613, and detailed in Supplementary Table 1. The genomes of ten modern horses, publicly available, were also accessed as indicated in their corresponding original publications57,61,85-87.NOTE: see the published version available via the DOI in this record for the full list of authorsDomestication of horses fundamentally transformed long-range mobility and warfare. However, modern domesticated breeds do not descend from the earliest domestic horse lineage associated with archaeological evidence of bridling, milking and corralling at Botai, Central Asia around 3500 BC. Other longstanding candidate regions for horse domestication, such as Iberia and Anatolia, have also recently been challenged. Thus, the genetic, geographic and temporal origins of modern domestic horses have remained unknown. Here we pinpoint the Western Eurasian steppes, especially the lower Volga-Don region, as the homeland of modern domestic horses. Furthermore, we map the population changes accompanying domestication from 273 ancient horse genomes. This reveals that modern domestic horses ultimately replaced almost all other local populations as they expanded rapidly across Eurasia from about 2000 BC, synchronously with equestrian material culture, including Sintashta spoke-wheeled chariots. We find that equestrianism involved strong selection for critical locomotor and behavioural adaptations at the GSDMC and ZFPM1 genes. Our results reject the commonly held association between horseback riding and the massive expansion of Yamnaya steppe pastoralists into Europe around 3000 BC driving the spread of Indo-European languages. This contrasts with the scenario in Asia where Indo-Iranian languages, chariots and horses spread together, following the early second millennium BC Sintashta culture

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Anomalous Properties of the Dislocation-Free Interface between Si(111) Substrate and 3C-SiC(111) Epitaxial Layer

Thin films of single-crystal silicon carbide of cubic polytype with a thickness of 40–100 nm, which were grown from the silicon substrate material by the method of coordinated substitution of atoms by a chemical reaction of silicon with carbon monoxide CO gas, have been studied by spectral ellipsometry in the photon energy range of 0.5–9.3 eV. It has been found that a thin intermediate layer with the dielectric constant corresponding to a semimetal is formed at the 3C-SiC(111)/Si(111) interface. The properties of this interface corresponding to the minimum energy have been calculated using quantum chemistry methods. It has turned out that silicon atoms from the substrate are attracted to the interface located on the side of the silicon carbide (SiC) film. The symmetry group of the entire system corresponds to P3m1. The calculations have shown that Si atoms in silicon carbide at the interface, which are the most distant from the Si atoms of the substrate and do not form a chemical bond with them (there are only 12% of them), provide a sharp peak in the density of electronic states near the Fermi energy. As a result, the interface acquires semimetal properties that fully correspond to the ellipsometry data

Innovative Ecosystem of Mining Industry

The mining industry belongs to the leading sectors of the global economy. However, the technologies used in it can not always be called innovative. This is due to both the specifics of the industry and the general technological lag of Russian economy. At present, it is almost impossible for individual enterprises to achieve significant success apart. In order for the process of innovative technological development to proceed more intensively, it is necessary to consider it through the prism of the ecosystem, i.e. a set of participants and the corresponding environment of this process, allowing to achieve a synergistic effect. The concept of an innovative ecosystem is based on the triple helix model, which is in turn based on a partnership between the state, science and business. They can interact effectively on the basis of technopark structures, which are a key element of the modern innovation ecosystem. The study was conducted on the basis of the Kemerovo region – a region in which a significant part of the Russian mining industry is concentrated. One of the tools for implementing the ecosystem approach to managing the development of the mining industry should be the main element of the innovation infrastructure of the Kemerovo region – the Kuzbass Technopark

Techno-Park Assistance in Mining Regions’ Integration into the Innovative Economy

A characteristic feature of the innovative economy is the increasing role of human capital, knowledge and high technologies. According to the indicators of innovative development, Russia lags behind the Western countries. At the same time, the development of Russian regions is extremely uneven. First of all, this applies to the mining regions. Technological parks should bridge the gaps and help the mining regions to integrate into the new economy. The authors consider the essence of techno-parks, the history of their establishment in Russia, and also analyze the dynamics of the main indicators of their functioning. When considering techno-park structures of the Tomsk and Kemerovo regions, the most important problems inherent these regions are highlighted. The authors analyze in detail the results of the innovation territorial center "ITC Tomsk" and the Kuzbass Techno-park, determine the main activities for the integration of mining regions in the innovation economy and characterize the positive effect of the techno-park structures functioning

Assessment of the Regional Knowledge Index for Sustainable Development of Siberian Mining Regions

At present time, the issue of defining indicators of sustainable development corresponds to the processes of modern economy development such as digitalization, technological convergence. They are going to replace mining from GDP of industrial countries and decease environmental pressure by expanding economy of knowledge. For the first time, the knowledge index was calculated by the World Bank. It should be noted that the World Bank calculated the indices for each individual country. This would allow developing the necessary decisions and government policies to build a knowledge economy. This goal is pursued by the authors of the article, but in relation to the sustainable development of the mining regions of Russia. The article discusses various approaches to assessing the regional knowledge index, and proposes a new methodology for its assessment based on the main determinant of the matrix and its logarithm. Based on the proposed methodology, the knowledge index was evaluated, which shows the conditions for the knowledge economy development in the mining regions of Russia. The rating of the mining regions of Siberian Federal District was built. The main conditions affecting the formation of the knowledge economy in the mining regions of Siberia in the context of their sustainable development are identified

Digital Transformation of Mining Enterprises

The level of competitiveness of the mining industry is determined primarily by productivity and operational excellence. Digitalization is becoming a determining factor that will enable companies in this field to remain competitive in the future. In the mining industry, the transition to new, more advanced working methods is usually slower due to the scale and complexity of production processes, as well as due to the significant volumes of technological modernization costs. Therefore, some enterprises in this area are not actively using digital technologies. Nevertheless, the world's leading mining companies are investing heavily in the development of modern energy and automation technologies in order to increase production and environmental efficiency, reduce the use of manual labor and energy expences. It is becoming clear that digital technology is opening up new opportunities to dramatically increase productivity and profit margins. The article examines the main directions of digital transformation of mining enterprises, reveals the main opportunities and threats

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