Anna Mikhaylova

• PhD
• Research Associate at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Introduction. The global scientific landscape has changed over the past 30 years. Geopolitical shifts of recent decades have contributed to the formation of new growth poles. The objective of the study is to assess the global geography of scientific knowledge growth as a marker of scientific leadership and determination of Russia’s place. Materials...

The geography of research and innovation activity is a traditional topic of research in human geography. Classical studies of the clustering and diffusion of innovation in the 1960s and 70s received a new impetus in the 21st century with the understanding of the openness of innovation and the importance of interregional collaborative networks. Digi...

Cities around the globe that have residential areas spanning several eras of architecture face the challenge of developing a comfortable urban environment. New urban spaces must accommodate the needs of a modern urban dweller constantly engaged with information and communication technologies and the Internet of Things. A viable urban development st...

Coastal settlements tend to have higher population density and economic clustering compared to inland territories. The tendency of an increasing socio-economic disbalance in favor of coastal spaces – the coastalization, has attracted the attention of the global academic community. Numerous assumptions are made on the cause of the coastalization phe...

From time immemorial, the oceans, seas and their coasts have been the cradle of human civilization and still play a vital role in the lives of millions of people, indirectly affecting all of humanity. The phenomenon of coastalization suggests that our reliance on and dependence from marine and maritime sectors will grow, and their sustainable devel...

Marine and coastal economies are the drivers of growth for many nations around the world. Close proximity to the sea generates positive externalities being especially strong in coastal areas, whose effective governance is a challenge. The greatest challenge to date is ambiguity in delimitation of a coastal zone, as static criteria based on density...

В условиях политики добрососедства приграничные территории выступают естественными контактными зонами, население которых проявляет наибольшую заинтересованность в развитии трансграничных связей и укреплении доверительных отношений. В одних регионах это связано с общим историко-культурным прошлым, в других – со стимулами социально-экономического хар...

The article focuses on the differences in the impact of urban agglomeration externalities on the development dynamics of different spatial zones of the region of Rostov, the tenth largest city of Russia, namely the agglomerative, contiguous, and remote. We also measure the divergence of the agglomeration itself, segregating the agglomerative munici...

Border regions are significant geostrategic territories, which long-term sustainable development is one of the priorities of Russia’s national security. The specificity of their economic-geographical position necessitates the development and implementation by the authorities of special governance approaches aimed at finding a balance between the op...

Rural areas and peripheral borderland territories are experiencing socio-economic marginalization featuring depopulation, population aging, and an increasing inequality gap in the quality of life compared to cities. Integrated rural tourism is argued to be ideal for supporting the well-being of rural communities, providing an additional income, dec...

Features of the economic-geographical position of the border regions are manifested, on the one hand, in their territorial proximity to foreign markets, international resource flows and infrastructure, and on the other hand, in their location on the periphery of the national spaces of neighboring states. In this regard, the economy of the borderlan...

Urbanization is a bright trend in the modern socio-economic development of territories around the world, accompanied by an increase in the density of the urban population and the growth of cities. The latter are experiencing a new development trajectory associated with the need for a wider introduction of information and communication technologies...

Across the globe marine coasts are experiencing an outstripping growth of the population and economic activity, a phenomenon known as coastalization. Most global cities and industry clusters are located in coastal regions acting as economic growth nodes for their respective countries. This divergence is equally true for national innovation systems,...

The complexity of knowledge generation has led to the growth of international networks of scientific cooperation, and integration into these networks is a vital factor of competitiveness. The development of cross-border scientific cooperation pursues two general objectives: firstly, regional development due to the peculiarities of the economic-geog...

Around the globe, cities act as nodes of innovation growth accumulating significant human, scientific, technical, entrepreneurial, investment, infrastructure, institutional, and other potentials. Generally, cities are attractors of resources, alienating them from nearby territories. The effects of this process are especially acute in the countrysid...

Conceptualization of the region as an integral territorial system of knowledge production has formed a widely used research strategy for innovation studies within regional boundaries. Regional level studies are supported by detailed innovation statistics, which is unavailable for smaller administrative-territorial units, such as municipalities or s...

The COVID-19 pandemic has proved a powerful catalyst for the integration of digital technologies in everyday life. Many routines relating to purchasing goods and services, information exchange, movement, document issuance, or scheduling medical appointments have been replaced by digital ones. Despite technology proliferating through society, the di...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on both national economies and everyday life. Massive lockdowns and a shift towards digital technologies forced people to adapt to technological innovations in their daily routines in a new online format. In this study we identify patterns of change in the population’s adoption of and receptiven...

Digitalization has affected the economies and the everyday life of the population all around the globe. Industries are going digital with the Industry 4.0 mode changing the conventional practices of doing business. People spend a significant amount of time online shifting their daily routines to electronic format. The wide dissemination and adoptio...

Marine and ocean coasts traditionally act as natural growth poles for humankind. Recent studies conducted by scholars from both natural and social sciences suggest that coastal zones accumulate population, agglomerate industries, attract entrepreneurs, and pull investments. The coastalisation effect remains one of the defining factors of regional d...

An intensive movement of people, which is typical in areas with strong tourism industry, is perceived to provide numerous positive externalities with regards to the diversity of cultures, ideas, and knowledge. Border regions act as natural contact zones experiencing the influx of tourists across borders. The borderland is expected to benefit from t...

Differences between the territories in economic-geographical situation, socioeconomic development, and political conditions of economic activity, the accumulated knowledgebase and competences, generate nonuniformity of the innovation space, where each region is unique and has its own innovative trajectory of innovative development trajectory. The s...

The coastal regions are increasingly in the focus of contemporary academic research as economically favorable territories with high innovative potential. The coastalization factor gets individual attention, the influence of which is registered in various countries of the world as a tendency of the population and economic activity to concentrate in...

The growth of cities against the background of transport infrastructure development has led to the formation of urban agglomerations as systems of interconnected cities. Rural areas are the foundation for the growth of new actively developing urban spatial systems and become donors of labour resources. The redistribution of population between the c...

Background: The aim is to identify novel methods and demand in using amber and its products in the field of medicine, health preservation and medical tourism. Material and methods: Quantitative and qualitative analysis is done on patents and patent applications indicating the use of natural amber and its derivatives as reflected in the title and/or...

The subject of this research is innovative security of Rostov Oblast of the Russian Federation as a western border region in the present context of geo-economic uncertainty and intricacy. Relevance of this article is substantiated by the current geopolitical factor, when innovative systems of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation exper...

At the turn of the XX-XXI centuries, post-socialist cities of Europe experienced an active transformation of their socio-demographic and economic structure. A striking feature of post-Soviet cities was the preservation of the disproportionate weight of industry in the economy against the background of a long absence of the real estate market. This...

Knowledge is becoming a paramount resource of innovation economies. The efficient management of generation, use, accumulation and transfer of knowledge within a non-linear innovation process plays a critical role in economic growth. Knowledge geography registers the uneven landscape of the national innovation system and captures the key excellence...

A key competitive advantage of a contemporary economy, knowledge, is distributed unevenly, tending to concentrate in cities and urban agglomerations. A border position translates into distinctive features of regional innovative development. In a favourable institutional context, proximity to a border strengthens transboundary cooperation and intera...

Clustering of economic activity is an issue of particular interest for regional studies and economic geography, as well as an important practical task faced by Russian regions and related to the enhancement of competitive capacities. The aim of the study is to capture the current trends in the formation and development of clusters across the coasta...

Coastal regions are generally conceived as highly advanced in terms of socioeconomic and innovative development. Acting as international contact zones, coastal agglomerations are described as gateways for absorbing new knowledge, technologies, business cultures, etc. Yet, this perception is based on studies of large coastal cities and agglomeration...

Innovation studies are at the forefront of contemporary applied research with public authorities funding annual evaluation of regional and national innovation performance. Numerous innovation indexes are introduced providing the track of innovation trajectories within multiple dimensions. The current study focuses on the multi-level assessment of t...

This article presents regional-level data that can be used for comparative territorial studies on innovation dynamics. The dataset covers a series of 50 indicators grouped into a matrix of 5 elements of regional innovation system (human resources - HR, infrastructure, research & development sector - R&D, innovative milieu, framework conditions) and...

Amid growing inter-state competition, national innovation policies are increasingly seeking to promote the development of regional innovation systems to intensify innovative processes and to enhance the economic competitiveness of territories. An efficient regional innovation policy requires a territorial adaptive approach to the development of mec...

Innovative milieu is an elusive networking scheme established within geospatial, socio-economic, institutional, and knowledge types of boundaries that enable the actors involved to excel in particular field(s) of activity. Generally these are high-tech sectors of the economy, the so called smart and creative industries that are highly reliant on hu...

The study attempts to understand the phenomenon of cross-border cluster formation in the specific context of the coastal zones of Russia in the Baltic sea, to assess the impact of modern global geopolitical and geo-economic trends, including the processes of European and Eurasian integration. The priority characterizes the formation of cross-border...

Increasing competition between states striving to integrate into the global economic system has created a need for a spatially targeted regional policy as a means of boosting national competitiveness. The regional polarisation approach, which seeks to create new and support the existing nodes of a regional economic system — clusters, technopoles, i...

This data article presents macroeconomic data that can be used for comparative territorial studies. The data cover a sample of 413 regions (national administrative-territorial units corresponding to second level of a common classification of territorial units for statistics of the European Commission – NUTS 2 level region of the European Union, and...

Download: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1WzrU3RKK-cIh~ __________________________________________________________________________ Researchers worldwide register continuous socio-spatial polarization connected with the effect of coastalization. It reputedly has the perceptible impact on the increasing regional divergence with the coastal areas exc...

Tertiary education worldwide is a highly competitive market with higher education institutions (HEIs) endeavoring to attract most talented matriculants, honorable professors, excellent researchers, and demanded guest lecturers. The advancement of a particular institution highly depends on its reputation for quality. The quality evaluators are numer...

The development sustainability and security of national innovation systems is highly influenced by the cohesion of regional innovation systems. Adherence to the classical core-periphery model creates premises to significant interregional inequality and spatial socio-economic polarization at the national level. The pronounced shift of financial capi...

Customer complaint behavior (CCB) is an unlikely predictable sequence of actions and reactions a person goes through in case of a service failure. Yet a number of studies have raised the issue on the pattern of CCB and have even revealed some regularities on this matter. This article is dedicated to verify one of such patterns attributed to the pub...

A considerable demand on gaining an inside knowledge on customers’ perceptions of the service quality and subsequent complaint behavior in case of failure has defined the aim of this research paper. In this paper we analyse the pattern of customer complaint behavior in a widely used and widespread type of service—public transportation. Given the fa...

This article reveals research results on comparative analysis of the subjects of the Russian Federation in terms of accumulation of new codified knowledge with a high degree of readiness for commercialisation, i.e., the commercially ready knowledge (CRN). The study is based on two scientific approaches: ‘ideas are embodied in patents’ and ‘ideas ar...

The article summarizes various scientific approaches to the definition of the regional innovation system, while a certain tendency to consider it as a phenomenon similar to the innovation cluster is revealed. The study has shown the role of the state in the Russian model of the regional innovation system compared to the Asian, European, and North A...

Рассмотрены новые формы международной экономической кооперации, возникшие в результате обусловленного глобализацией углубления процесса регионализации и формирования международных регионов. Основные выводы иллюстрированы на материалах Балтийского региона, где широко представлены разнообразные формы транснационального и трансграничного экономическог...

Article deals with the peculiarities in modeling the regional innovation system (RIS) as a form of territorial social system characterized by a specific set of properties of the systemic, innovative and spatio-positional nature. The author analyzes the existing models of RIS with an emphasis on the formation of generalized ideas about the compositi...

Current article sets out a scientific debate on the phenomenon of innovation security (IS) and regional IS in particular. Authors suggest that IS should be considered as an independent type of regional security, along with economic, environmental, political, etc. security types. It is assumed that IS is one of the key imperatives of regional develo...

The principles of internal territorial and administrative division (ATD) are a staple of Russia’s statehood. The paper deals with the analysis of changes made to the territorial and ATD of Northwest Russia over the Soviet period (1917-1991), mainly in upper-level units (Gubernia, Oblast, Krai, and republic), and partly at the medium level, such as...

This article investigates the factors that act as barriers in obtaining customer complaints in public transportation services in the city of Kaliningrad, Russia. It seeks to understand what external and internal factors discourage dissatisfied customers from filing a complaint to the service company, and allocate regularities with regard to persona...

This empirical study is held in the city of Kaliningrad, the westernmost region of Russia. The SERVQUAL model is applied to discover the quality gap of customers’ expectations and perceptions on public transportation services. Citizens of this Russian enclave in the centre of Europe showed themselves as knowledgeable and demanding passengers, havin...

The following research paper addresses the issue of cluster internationalization process. The methodological approach is based on analyzing pan-European projects of transnational inter-organizational cooperation, while giving emphasis on identifying networked linkages across the spatial reach of the Baltic region. Research results reveal a number o...

This article reveals the spatial and sectoral distribution of international clusters in the Baltic macro-region. The research results suggest that there are 28 international clusters in the Baltic region, all of which have an organized structure and are supported by the state. An overwhelming majority of identified clusters represent cross-border t...

The article discusses an important issue of Russian integration into the global network cooperation in innovation. The first part of the study addresses differences in types of knowledge flows between the country of the firm-innovator and the host country. Three main directions of globalization of innovation are identified. Each of the given cases...

This article presents the research results of an empirical study on the public transportation systems of two cities – Kaliningrad and Karlstad. Both cities are located in the Baltic region and possess a number of weighty differences and similarities. The research methodology is based on a conventional instrument – the SERVQUAL model, which insures...

В статье на основе обобщения и анализа существующих подходов уточнено понятие трансграничного кластера. Рассмотрены причины, способствующие созданию трансграничных кластеров, а также инструменты и механизмы, используемые для формирования и поддержки кластерных инициатив в Балтийском регионе. В ходе идентификации трансграничных кластеров на Балтике...

Рассмотрены и обобщены существующие в отечественной и зарубежной литературе теоретические подходы к определению международных кластеров. Уточнены понятия экономического кластера, международного кластера, трансграничного кластера, транснационального кластера. Выделены основные признаки международных кластеров. Дана классификация международных класте...

В статье рассматривается возможность использования кластерного подхода в инновационном развитии региона с выделением роли акторов научно-исследовательской сферы в кластерных взаимодействиях на основе модели «тройной спирали» в условиях различных типов производства знаний. Рассмотрен пример успешной реализации модели «тройной спирали» в трансграничн...