Competitive Advantages of the Innovative University Ecosystem as the Source of the Competitiveness of Small Innovative Enterprises

摘要

The present article studies a small innovative enterprise as an effective form of commercialization of scientific results, analyses its life cycle, the issues of its formation, functioning and development, and examines a range of conditions and factors for the successful operation of an innovative university ecosystem and a small innovative enterprise. The mechanisms of enterprise activity service and the projected activities to introduce the innovations to the market are considered the central problems of the article. The hypothesis of the present research is as follows: the infrastructure of the innovative university ecosystem is an economic agent; it is characterized by the methods of working with innovations, which small innovative enterprises introduce to promote on the innovation market. The subject of the research is the mechanisms of enterprise activity service and the intellectual services of the innovative university ecosystem provided to small innovative enterprises to facilitate their successful introduction into the innovation market. The article is aimed at studying the properties of a small innovative enterprise as an operational core; in order for this core to function effectively, the innovation university ecosystem performs a service function and provides intellectual services, such as management, engineering, technological, financial, investment, marketing, accounting services, etc. In the research the authors have formulated the properties of the innovative ecosystem as an environmental system, proposed its model and substantiated the service nature of its activity, as well as have analysed the life cycle and performance criteria of a small innovative enterprise.