Features of the network model of innovation activity in the robotics cluster in the context of intellectual property protection

This article is aimed at identifying and analyzing the features of the network model of innovation activity in the robotics cluster in the context of intellectual property protection on the example of a number of foreign countries and Russia. The starting point of the research is the currently observed creeping networking implicated as an introduction of non-market communication, which is beginning to replace purely exchange, monetary regulations in the economy, law and other spheres of society. The article analyzes approaches of foreign countries and Russia that create patterns of acceptability (acceptance, objective necessity) of the application of «open» innovations in the robotics cluster and some facets of the influence of this trend in the field of law based on analytical reflections on the information gathered from the sources and literature listed below. The relevance, theoretical and practical significance of such a research is due to the fact that both network «open» (innovative) and «closed» (traditional) methods of developing new scientific knowledge have their pros and cons, which can currently slow down or accelerate scientific progress and contribute to innovative growth. Experience of functioning of foreign institutes, research centers, etc. can be useful in finding answers to similar questions related to the development, justification and adoption of collaborations based on «open» innovations in our country. Such a research also serves to fill in the existing gap in the coverage of legal and other approaches of foreign countries in the field under study in the modern period. The author's results, among others, are presented in the idea that in a long- and even medium-term perspective there will be no need in patents both in the robotics cluster and other clusters (fields of activity, sub-sectors of the economy) due to a number of reasons that we have mentioned (the objective need for network collaborations, including «open» innovations, due to the inability to work and create alone, greater economic benefits that give collaborations and networks instead of other formats, etc.), which is indirectly confirmed today by the development of compatible blockchains.

networking, network model of innovation-making, innovations, knowledge growth, robotics, robotics cluster, intellectual property protection, patents, collaborations, blockchain