This book focuses on crisis management in forest industry of Russia. It
is about the present, and the future, with a short retrospective about
the past of the forest industry in Russia. It includes forecasting too
and description of some of the best practices of developed countries to
be implemented in Russia to overcome the crisis. The main theme of the
book is smart innovations and innovative activities introduced and also
those which are required in the forest industry of Russia. The book
considers the effectiveness of innovations and institutional changes in
the forest industry, which are an important direction of innovation
activities required all together with technological and economic
breakthrough with ecological aspects in priority. The necessity to
implement the modern innovation system in the forest industry based on
institutional changes is substantiated and thoroughly explained with
successful examples of ongoing and future up-to-date smart innovations.
The development of the forest innovation system is suggested for
sustainable forest industry management; the key components of which are
technological, product, institutional, and ecological innovations, as
well as, innovative entrepreneurship. Realization of the innovation
system for technological and intellectual improvement requires good
scientific and personnel provision, anticipation of markets and
tendencies of development for some decades ahead. The implied advanced
technologies in the forest industry also include IT-, nano-, and
biotechnologies. The success stories of the leading Russian and
international companies in the forest industry of Russia are studied
attentively in the book. The book presents a profound methodical and
theoretical substantiation for the further implementation of the smart
innovations and of the successful experience of the industry leading
companies.
