STRATEGY FOR IMPLEMENTING THE INNOVATIVE POTENTIAL OF RUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES
The article considers various aspects of the formation, functioning and development of Russian universities as innovation centers and proposes the main options for a strategy for their further development. The purpose of the article is to study the strategy of implementing the innovative potential of Russian universities on the basis of identifying and analyzing the weaknesses and strengths, threats and opportunities for the development of universities as a result of the development of socio-economic, institutional, organizational and managerial mechanisms of their functioning and the choice of priority areas, methods and methodological assessment tools their development as subjects of innovation. The article analyzes the experience of entrepreneurship in American and European universities as the basis for the formation of entrepreneurial universities in Russia based on the triple helix model. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study of the strategy for the development of Russian universities is a systematic approach, which includes the interconnected use of various research methods: the study of external and internal factors for the development of universities, the identification and analysis of factors, processes and phenomena that have the greatest impact on the development of universities as innovative centers, methodological methods for determining and analyzing the strengths, neutrals and weaknesses of the development of innovation activities of universities. The use of SWOT analysis made it possible to evaluate the multi-component strategy of innovative development of universities, which is based on the analysis of internal and external factors, processes and phenomena that influence the formation of higher educational institutions as an important component of the national innovation system.