Provision of innovative safety in the context of NIS development

The article considers main approaches to the definition of “innovative safety”. Their analysis enabled the authors to propose a definition of innovative safety in the context of development of a national innovation system. The authors distinguish two complementary subsystems of innovative safety, such as a subsystem of objects of innovative security and a serving subsystem, their elements, basic functions and factors that have an adverse impact on the provision of innovative safety. The external factors, which have a negative impact, may include scientific, technical and technological backwardness and dependence on foreign countries in various economic sectors that have a strategic importance for the development of Russia. The internal factors include the lack of a unified innovation state policy; lack of government protection of specific technology and research; failure to introduce advanced technology because of a lack of favorable economic and legal conditions; low level of transfer and commercialization of domestic technology; inability to use the national intellectual potential to the full, drain of intellectual capital abroad, and as a consequence, loss of scientific and technological secrets; lack of conditions for the use of innovative technologies in the production. The combination of these factors, having a negative impact on the development of internal and external environment, can destabilize the situation and create a number of real threats to the national security. In the context of the proposed by the authors definition of innovative security main internal and external threats to the security of innovation are identified and complemented; directions of the state innovation policy as a main instrument for ensuring security in the context of the national innovation system are formulated.