Comparative analysis of the development of technological platforms in the European Union and the Russian Federation

The article deals with such a tool of the state innovation policy as a technology platform performing the role of a bridge between the private, public and academic sectors. Based on the analysis of the research field in terms of inter-firm interactions, it was theoretically proven that a technology platform represents the product of a long evolutionary development of forms of cooperation of economic agents. At the same time, the authors considered the essence of the phenomenon of technological platforms, as a mechanism of implementation of the state innovative policy at the example of the European Union the experience of which formed the basis of establishing similar groups in the Russian Federation. This was followed by a comparative analysis of the technological platforms of the EU and Russia, which allowed to identify the main methodological differences in the approaches to their implementation. Special attention is paid to currently existing difficulties of the functioning of technological platforms in Russia which were classified on the basis of the results of the comparative analysis. Alongside with this, the article has proposed the most promising direction for making efforts to enhance the success of the implementation of the mechanism of the state policy.