Innovation Ecosystem as Foundation for Developing Highly-Technological Industry

In the era of global digitalization high technologies become the engine of development both of world economy in general and of economy of certain states in particular. They penetrate in all fields of life, including industry. Highly technological industry forms the basis of innovation development and the base for ensuring economic security of the country. It affects interests of a great number of entities, i.e. industrial enterprises themselves, state acting as a regulator, investors, contractors and suppliers, service companies, research and education institutions and customers. Thus, it would be reasonable to consider highly -technological industry as an ecosystem. The author shows that using the ecosystem approach could allow us to develop a vast potential of highly -technological enterprises more efficiently, to improve effectiveness of their work and to promote proliferation of innovation into other less technological industries. The Republic of Mordovia, which is characterized by a high degree of economy innovation and development of highly-technological manufacturing, was chosen for this research. The basis of the regional ecosystem is ‘Techno-Park-Mordovia’ that can combine the efforts of authorities, science and business to develop and spread highly-technological products.