Challenges of Innovative Activity Staffing in the Russian Economy

Abstract

The author provides a brief analysis of innovative activity staffing, finding its current condition inadequate. A number of ways to improve human resource capacity are suggested, including: lowering the average age and attracting ‘new’ young personnel by increasing the financial attractiveness factor of research facility employment; increasing the efficiency of the educational process through the creation of new concentrations and higher educational institutions; developing links between universities and the manufacturing sector; providing professional training with account of business sector demand; and attraction of leading foreign scholars to educational institutions.