Creative potential in the development of national ecosystems

Abstract The scientific problem of involving creative potential in development of national ecosystems in current conditions of deep technological transformations is becoming more and more relevant and in demand. The creative potential of ecosystems is a powerful intellectual force that transforms and cognizes modern ecosystems, generates qualitatively new ideas to meet the challenges of the new economic reality and is capable of creating effective capital combinations based on these ideas. The authors focus on conceptual representation of the ecosystem as one of the progressive ways to organize economic activity and its components, formation and use of creative potential within national ecosystems, the value of intellectual capital as a capitalized value of the human creative potential, and creation of adequate mechanisms to involve creative people in self-development of national ecosystems. Through the prism of the pursuit of strategy for incorporation of a high-quality human creative potential into the Russian economy, the authors consider the key challenges and contradictions of modern transformations on the path to innovative ecosystem development, assess vectors of productive cooperation, experience exchange between Russian and foreign creative industries and recognition of significance of the creative sector in economic, social and institutional processes of local ecosystem development, and offer practical tools for problem solution at different levels of socio-economic transformations.