blocks: the level of economic development (GRP growth rate and GRP per capita), education and human capital (number of … students per capita and the average number of education years for employees), science and innovation (number of researchers and … capita). Since the performance of education and science are relatively stable for the Russian regions, characteristics of GRP …

SMEs play an important role in the development of regional innovative systems because of their potential to accept new … technologies and show fast growing rates. There is an interdependence between emergence of fast growing SMEs ('gazelles') and …-growing manufacturing SMEs during post-crisis period (2009-2012), the main focus was on the determinants of the companies' share in total …