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Industrial companies are the core of the national innovation system. However, large, medium and small enterprises differ significantly in their role in the innovation system, resource potential, strategic priorities and objectives. The paper focuses on a comparative analysis of the strategic priorities of innovative activities of Russian companies of different size. We have identified three types of companies: small innovative companies, large and medium-sized companies with a traditional business model, major innovation-driven companies with an integrated business model. Our analysis of the trajectories of small innovative firms located in Novosibirsk Scientific Center showed that the majority of the companies can be characterized either as spin-off firm or as specialized supplier. Spin-offs are newly established small firms, who have recently separated from the major research labs or parent companies. The typical behavior model for such companies is innovative entrepreneurship. Specialized suppliers are small companies that provide significant contributions to complex manufacturing systems in the form of equipment, parts, tools and software. Innovative objectives of such small companies deal with design and production of the specific elements required for large companies. Large and medium-sized companies with a traditional business model are characterized by the existing structure of commodity output and the supply chain. Characteristic type of innovative behavior for such companies includes incremental product and process innovations. Large innovation-oriented companies with an integrated business model have traditional production units and innovative units in their structure. Innovation priorities of major innovation-oriented companies with integrated business model are consistent with the hybrid model of behavior which combines the traditional model with an innovative entrepreneurship.

Analyses inter­relation of literary and musical texts and reveals Ancient Russian musical figurativeness of music. The author studies melodic, harmonic, stylistic, genre and compositional treats of cantata and argues that all these treats were aimed at implementation of the Ancient Russian choral tradition.

Modern technologies have a large-scale impact on the transformation of functions, tools and methods of management as well as managers' competencies, updating the question of what will management be like in the near future. The article presents an overview of the main management development trends, outlining the emerging management development paradigm in today's digital age.
The paper analyses the works of the leading foreign and Russian researchers in the field of management, as well as those selected by the keywords. In total, more than 100 publications aimed at identifying and theoretical understanding of management development trends in the digital economy were reviewed.
It is shown that the concept of management in the digital era develops dynamically, but the contours of the emerging paradigm provoke professional discourse and experiments. The diversity of researchers' views on the future of management is systematized from the perspectives of organizational business models and strategic priorities of the companies, which seems to be the key aspects of management, ensuring a holistic perception of the business and showing the direction of its transformation in response to environmental challenges. Based on these findings, new requirements for the competencies of modern managers are given. It is also shown that well-known consulting companies introduce new complex indicators of effective companies' management systems. The identified trends of the modern management development as well as the new competencies of managers, which could be of interest to the researchers and management practitioners, require further analysis, as technologies and management practices evolve.

The paper discusses possibilities and directions for bridging the gaps between academic research and business by reducing barriers and strengthening incentives for the development of partnership interactions between participants of the regional innovation ecosystem. Many researchers from developed and developing countries focus on the problems of interaction between universities and companies in order to find ways to increase academic research effectiveness and make the results relevant to the business sector's real demand. Development of partnership relations is known to be a factor which accelerates creation and dissemination of innovations. Improvement of such relationship favours academic researchers' possibilities, educational programs adjustment, and regional economy development. Basing on international experience review, the paper determines the main tendencies and perspectives of research – business cooperation as well as key directions of partnership cooperation support. The empirical part of the paper deals with the results of original pilot survey which uses data from a number of research, educational organizations and high tech companies from Novosibirsk region. The aim of the survey was to analyze success factors and main obstacles for sustainable research – business cooperation. Qualitative methods including case studies, interviews, and surveys were used within the research. It is shown that, although all representatives of science and business recognize the need to develop partnership relationships, differences in motivations and conflicting goals of participants still remain. Besides well known barriers (lack of financial and other resources, personnel etc.) some other factors turned to be important. Low level of confidence and negative cooperation experience impede cooperation development. Personal issues and previous successful experience help to develop and improve partnerships. Such cases could be found. State support (especially at the regional level) is quite necessary; it is not limited to financial instruments. Support of communications which helps to increase the level of confidence and to decrease "attrition costs" of cooperation is also of great importance

The study considers the educational interaction in the corporate university. The theoretical analysis describes how to harmonize the requirements of state and corporate standards in the higher education institutions in such a form which is unconventional for Russia. The empirical evidence collected by the authors when conducting a comprehensive review of university teachers' activity allows one to reveal the features of such activity in a private university, which is a part of a large industrial holding. In the authors' opinion, it was sufficient to emphasize five competence-based evaluation units having reflected corporate requirements of the customer (corporation) to the lecturer activities. The stated evaluation criteria identified the main catalysts for effective educational interaction in a corporate higher education institution, namely the readiness of an educator to meet corporate standards and the duration of his cooperation with the university or corporation (customer).