The entrance barriers in the Russian market of advanced technologies and the role of government institutions in combating them

In the first part of the article, the authors give an analysis of the barriers which new companies face when they enter the advanced technologies market, and offer their classification of entrance barriers for innovative goods markets. In the second part, they suggest new means of governmental help for small innovative companies in order to overcome these barriers. The conclusion is that the governmental innovation policies do not fully use the potential of merging and takeovers as well as the clustering mechanisms in order to develop a national innovative system and the markets of advanced technology products.