The Role of Innovation Infrastructure Development Institutions in Ensuring Legal Protection and Commercialization of the Results of Intellectual Activity
The forms of commercialization of innovations, due to their uniqueness, are quite diverse. The monetary method of maintaining competition is outdated. In this regard, legal instruments, institutional environment and institutions for the development of innovations—technoparks, technopolises, business incubators, scientific and technological centers—are being increasingly used. Such catalysts of knowledge and innovation consolidate the interests of the State, business and society. The paper examines the innovation infrastructure in the context of law, identifies the problems of commercialization of rights to the results of intellectual activity (RIA). The author carries out a sistematic analysis of the Russian regulatory framework for innovation, commercialization of innovation and RIA, and the legal framework for the activities of innovation development institutions. It is substantiated that the protection of the results of intellectual activity and the legislative consolidation of a set of measures for the protection of intellectual property represent the most important backbone elements of the national innovation system. When analyzing the legal framework for the creation of technology parks, business incubators and innovative scientific and technological centers, their significant participation in the commercialization of RIA was revealed. However, legal support for participants in innovative activities, entrepreneurs for state registration and protection of rights to RIA is carried out insufficiently and fragmentarily. The author examines the foreign experience of technoparks’ activities, their types and legal regulation.