期刊名称：Economic and Social Changes: Facts, Trends, Forecast
印刷版ISSN：2307-0331
电子版ISSN：2312-9824
出版年度：2016
期号：3
页码：138-153
出版社：ISEDT RAS
摘要：Professional education is the main part of personnel training and it serves as the driver ofmodernization process. “Knowledge workers” are carriers of knowledge provided by the professionaltraining system. Professional activity of “knowledge workers” is strategically important in the economyunder transformation. The paper reviews domestic and foreign experience and defines criteria foridentifying people as “knowledge workers”: educational level, employment in “intellectually demanding”industries. The study identifies specific characteristics of “knowledge workers”, represents their typologicalclassification depending on their employment affiliation (professional managers, new workers, certifiedtechnicians, scientists, innovator specialists). The paper focuses on determining the level of implementationof employment potential of qualified specialists in the context of economic modernization. The authorsdefine the dependence of the level of regions’ modernization on the employment of workers that havevocational education. At the same time, the paper points out that the modernization of the territory isinfluenced not so much by the training of “knowledge workers” as the fulfilment of their potential in thelabor market. This thesis is confirmed by the results of correlation analysis, which evidence the lack of directconnection between the number of college and university students and the level of modernization. Fromthe position of effective implementation of the potential accumulated, the study shows the importanceof integrating the graduates of educational organizations into the labor market in accordance with thespecialty they obtained. The paper also identifies problems that hamper job placement within the specialtyobtained. The study shows that the slowdown in modernization processes is due mainly to the economicand cognitive aspects. In particular, the imbalances in the components of the secondary modernizationindex stem from an insufficient number of scientists and engineers, people who file patent applications, andfrom the small amount of allocations to research and development in GRP. The paper reveals that one of theways to improve human capital is to increase innovative activity of the youth; the authors substantiate thethesis about the direct positive impact of the development of competencies on participation in research andscientific developments. The results of the study can be used to work out strategic plans for the developmentof innovation industries and social entrepreneurship in Russia’s regions.
