– 643 – Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences 4 (2019 12) 643–659 ~ ~ ~ УДК 334.72 Research and Business Cooperation: International Practice and Siberian Experience Nataliya A. Kravchenko*, Almira T. Yusupova and Svetlana A. Kuznetsova Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering of SB RAS 17 Akademika Lavrent’eva, Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia Novosibirsk State University 2 Pirogova Str., Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia Received 19.02.2019, received in revised form 28.03.2019, accepted 08.04.2019 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 fnd 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 conficting goals of participants still remain. Besides well known barriers (lack of fnancial and other resources, personnel etc.) some other factors turned to be important. Low level of confdence 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 fnancial instruments. Support of communications which helps to increase the level of confdence and to decrease “attrition costs” of cooperation is also of great importance. © Siberian Federal University. All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: natakravchenko20@mail.ru ORCID: 0000-0002-6613-7582 (Kravchenko); 0000-0003-3423-1264 (Yusupova);0000-0002-0570-9380 (Kuznetsova) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).