Information and Communication Problems of Innovative Activity in a Regional University

The paper reveals the features of innovation activity in the higher education system in Russia. The authors summarize the reforms planned in the Strategy of innovative development of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2020, analyze the current state and prospects for the deployment of innovation, and draft some proposals for university practice. The article analyzes the collective nature of the subject of innovation activity in a regional university, as well as the problems of interrelationships between its individual groups. It highlights information and communication problems in the course of organizing and implementing university innovation activities, in particular, in the process of forming innovation competencies. The problems of commercialization of the results of scientific activity in regional universities of the country are considered separately. Specific sociological data gathered by the authors is used to verify conclusions and propositions. The main conclusion: innovation activity in a regional university (especially in a classical university) is developing slowly and with great difficulties, in particular, due to numerous information and communication problems of interaction and the formation of a corporate innovation culture.