Ecosystem of innovation parks as an infrastructure for PetrSU strategic projects realization: concept, purposes, objectives and operation conditions

the article is focused on the concept of «an innovation park» definition. The infrastructure developed in PetrSU ensures realization of basic university strategic projects and features a complex that includes two systems: innovation parks (IT-park, Engineering Park, Biomedical Park, Pedagogical Park, Humanitarian Park, and Youth Park) and the university’s interregional resource centers. The authors analyze the features that characterize an innovation park and provide a definition of the PetrSU innovation park. Special aspects of creation and operation of the PetrSU innovation parks as an innovation ecosystem are considered. The article presents the experience practice of the PetrSU innovation park as the example of a successful integration of all necessary resources (informational, educational, material and technical, financial, technological, and intellectual) for expeditious generation and promotion of the university high technology products into the real sector of economy. The authors define the main purposes and objectives of an innovation park arrangement and its structure and operation features that ensure the transformation of scholar and academic research results into innovation products.