Systematic Method of Targeting the Strategic Innovation Research

System in Transport

Nikolai Vnukovsky

, Svetlana Rachek

, Olga Selina

Ekaterina Konysheva

and Yana Khomenko

Ural State University of Railway Transport, Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation

Keywords: Systematic method of goal setting, the system of research, the transport industry, strategic innovative activity

in transport, goal tree, decomposition, technological approach, resource approach, role approach, conceptual

models, structural-functional, information-digital models, cluster-analysis, knowledge system in transport.

Abstract: The article considers one of the innovative directions - the research system of strategic innovation activity in

transport based on a systematic target setting method. The package of conceptual, algorithmic, structural,

functional, informational and criterial models of the research system of strategic innovation activity in

transport is presented, which allowed creating a knowledge system for managers to make reasonable

management decisions based on intellectual-computer support. In order to create a system of research on the

model scientific research methodology, a working slogan, satisfying the principles of measurability,

modifiability and continuity of the transport industry, has been developed. To achieve the goal, a tree of

objectives was built, which, when decomposed only by the technological approach, yielded more than 600

financial and economic objectives. On the basis of resource and role-based approaches, lists of strategic

innovation research system functions were compiled, subjected to cluster analysis, and conceptual modelling

of the research system of the transport industry was carried out. Based on the scientific study of strategic

innovation research system formed the structure of the research system of strategic innovation activities by

introducing the intellectual block of innovation in the form of a knowledge system in transport.

1 INTRODUCTION

"Sustainable development is about meeting the needs

of the present generation without compromising the

ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

This principle should become the central guiding

principle of the United Nations for all governments

and ministries, private companies, organisations and

enterprises" (Łuczak and Just, 2021; Shcheglov,

2018).

In this regard, the sustainable development of an

industrial enterprise is based on the following

concepts:

– the need for innovation for the functioning of

the production business processes (Cheng, et

al., 2020);

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– constraints in the development of innovative

technologies of the enterprise to meet the

demand on commodity markets.

In this case, the following must necessarily

change: to increase the number of innovative products

and technologies; to increase the efficiency of

innovative technologies and the management quality.

Such changes help to maintain the growth of demand

satisfaction for the production process and the needs

on the commodity markets.

Today, economic theories set limits in the form of

(Pasinetti, 2021):

– marginal costs;

– marginal profit;

– Supply and demand equilibrium, which do not

allow for a lack of innovation.

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Therefore, any technological development

(innovation) should be evaluated in terms of its

contribution to the enhancement of sustainable

economic development (Shabalov, et al., 2021; Mok

and Kan, 2013). In addition, investment in innovation

on the principles of sustainable economic

development allows the industrial enterprise to create

a system of long-term and sustainable profit through

the efficient use of all resources.

From the point of view of innovation development

in the processes of the Russian economy

modernization, an important direction is to create

such an innovation environment, so that the existing

knowledge, technology, innovation development,

scientific research could be turned into a final product

demanded by the economy in the shortest possible

time, to create a priority for the mass implementation

of innovation in all spheres of activity (Guo and Shi,

2021; Morgan, et al., 2021).

The most pressing issue in the development of

scientific innovation areas can be identified as

strategic innovation activity, which is sufficiently

well disclosed in the literature, but the research tools

and systems of strategic innovation activity (SIRS)

themselves are underdeveloped. Therefore, this

article applies a systematic method of targeting SIRS,

on the basis of which modelling was carried out,

conceptual, algorithmic, structural-functional,

informational and criterial models of SIRS were

developed (Jin Ko, et al., 2021; Vnukovsky, 1999).

The whole package of these models will make it

possible to form intellectual-computer support in the

future and, ultimately, to create a knowledge system

for managers to make competent and well-founded

management decisions.

2 METHODS

Based on the literature review, the lists and

characteristics of stakeholder satisfaction slogans

were generated in relation to the development of a

research system for the economic, information and

management aspects of strategic innovation

activities. The primary list of 44 keywords has been

evaluated dichotomously (0 or 1) according to their

importance for the main actors of innovation and

investment. From the primary list of slogans, a

working slogan for Strategic Innovation Research

System (SIRS) (Boso, et al., 2012; Brozovic, 2018;

Wales, 2015) was formulated.

The creation of a socially demanded competitive

investment and innovation enterprise, relevant to the

contemporary transitional economy, with high

guarantees of economic security and a special

research system (SIRS), which provides qualitative

functioning and timely reform of the enterprise taking

into account the appearance of innovative

technologies which satisfy the principles of

measurability, modularity and continuity (Covin and

Wales, 2018; Gupta, et al., 2019; Ho, et al., 2016; Li,

et al., 2008).

The global goal of SIRS is to develop a demanded

SIRS that provides information on the quality

functioning and timely reform of the innovative

enterprise.

A technological approach has been chosen to

identify local goals.

Level I local targets:

1. Fixing the quality of SIRS input streams.

2. Fixing the quality of SIRS regulations.

3. Fixing the quality of the SIRS implementation

tools.

4. Fixing the quality of the SIRS output streams.

5. Fixing the quality of the innovation process

technology.

Local Level II objectives:

1.1 Fixing the quality of SIRS customer quality

information.

1.2 Fixing the quality of information about

innovation capital.

1.3 Fixing the quality of SIRS input information.

2.1 Fixing the quality of regulations by type of ID.

2.2 Fixing the quality of standards by areas of IA

application.

3.1 Fixing the quality of innovation resources

(IR).

3.2 Fixing the quality of innovation tools (IT) of

RS.

4.1 Fixing the quality of SIRS clients on outputs.

4.2 Fixing the quality of innovation capital at

output.

4.3 Fixing the quality of output information.

5.1 Fixing the quality of innovative technological

processes (ITP) by stages.

5.2 Fixing the quality of ITP by management

levels.

5.3 Capturing the quality of ITP by professional

levels.

Decomposition according to the technological

approach alone resulted in more than 600 specific

financial and economic tasks.

In order to obtain a list of functions from the list

of tasks, a method for distinguishing two components

was used - a routine one, based on precedents and

oriented on computer databases, and a creative one,

designed for the user's intellect. The creative

component - innovation analysis is organised with the

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help of a smart cueing system (SCS), SIRS, which

helps to find a way to solve the problem.

More than 80 SIRS functions are derived,

presented according to groups: quality of innovation

processes, breadth of innovation services, technology

of innovation processes, customer classification and

documentation.

The resource-based approach additionally

considers the current state of the innovation

enterprise, the quality of innovation processes and

their results, and the information-intellectual nature

of the enterprise's innovation activities.

In the role-based approach, lists of main and

subject support roles of IA were formed, to which

subject-system and information-computer aspects of

the problem were attributed. The obtained role

structure of innovative enterprise allowed to make an

additional list of functions for the roles of the head

and main innovation manager, which in terms of

breadth of coverage of IA issues satisfy the

requirement of the list completeness as much as

possible.

Based on these approaches, various SIRS lists of

functions were compiled and subjected to a cluster

analysis. To describe the properties of the functions,

the main types of SIRS support, its resource and

technology components were considered, and the

object orientation was taken into account. The object

orientation was expressed by the IA specificity, the

resource component by knowledge-intensiveness,

and the technological component by the quality of

processability. A dichotomous way of quantifying the

properties of SIRS functions was used. Cluster

analysis takes into account the principle of function

synthesis and the need to combine specific and non-

specific functions in SIRS. The complete structure of

the functions has three main levels: routine,

knowledge-intensive and specific highly intelligent

multimedia.

For each selected function, a list of requirements

was generated for implementation in SIRS, in terms

of generating the information to be collected for each

IA profile and presenting the diagnostic opinion

dynamically, for example, for each type of security

(ordinary shares, preference shares, debentures,

convertible bonds and other securities). The dynamic

nature for all types of investment activities is adjusted

with inflation projections for each calculation period,

and risks are considered and assessed at all stages of

IA development.

According to the typology of technological

systems of strategic innovation research, the main

stages, methods and models used, as well as the

corresponding tool support for technological schemes

of innovation research are grouped.

As the next step in the systematic method of goal-

setting, SIRS modelling was carried out. Conceptual,

algorithmic, functional-structural, criteria and

information models of SIRS have been developed.

The general concept of SIRS consists in

modelling SIRS by implementing the cycle:

management, identification, interoperability,

optimization of the lower IA levels on the basis of

subsystems: computing and information

environment, the SIRS object and interface means,

functionally interconnected by human investment

activities aimed at improving the quality of SIRS

processes and results.

The base-level concept of SIRS is to model SIRS

through distributed management of the downstream

implementation - management, identification,

interoperability and optimisation of the lower levels

of the LED through sub-systems-based dialogue

points.

Hierarchical computing facility, LED object and

modular interfacing facilities, functionally linked by

the activities of SIRS users and maintenance

personnel, aimed at determining the stability of the

current situation, selecting and applying adaptive

bifurcation mechanisms of development, evolution of

the self-organising SIRS system, improving the

efficiency and quality of innovation processes and

SIRS results, automating research on technological

investment processes and implementing active

learning methods in order to improve the SIRS

science and technology base and create a modern

industry of innovation activities.

The base-level concept of prospective SIRS

consists in modelling and synthesis of SIA through

centralized management of top-down cycle -

management, identification, compatibility and

optimization of lower levels of SIA according to the

requests of system users based on subsystems with

programmable architecture: computing environment,

SIA object and intelligent interface tools, functionally

united by user activities as well as system integration,

formalization, structuring, modelling, optimization,

on the one hand, and intellectualization

The architecture of the main subsystems of SIRS

is constructed as a programmable structure in the

form of a set of properties and characteristics that

define the relationships between the blocks of the

system. The architecture of the computing

environment is programmable in order to align it with

the nature of the SIA task at hand. The

programmability of the SIA object structure allows to

solve the task of synthesis, i.e., creation of the SIA

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object based on the known model. The SIA object

structure programmability can be considered as one

of the ways to control the SIA object.

Programmability of interface architecture provides

functional flexibility of subsystems during their

interaction with SIA and computational environment.

The general concept of the computing

environment within SIRS consists in the

implementation of receiving, transmitting, processing

and storing information about SIA, SIRS and its

subsystems by managing it through a human-machine

dialogue, based on software and hardware, aimed at

automating the acquisition of information about

strategic innovation activities to improve the

efficiency and quality of research tools.

The base-level concept of computing environment

at the present stage within SIRS consists in realization

of reception, transfer, processing and storage of data

and knowledge about SIRS and its subsystems by its

management by means of human-machine dialogue,

based on software-hardware, aimed at automatization

of obtaining new knowledge about SIA to increase

the efficiency of experimentation tools and creation

of modern IA industry.

The general concept of interface tools within the

framework of SIRS is to provide information

interaction between the computational environment

and the SIA object by organizing impact on the SIA

object and recording its response to impact on the

basis of experimental hardware, aimed at increasing

the efficiency of primary information acquisition for

the purpose of end-to-end automation in the IA field.

The base-level concept of modern interfacing

means within the framework of SIRS consists in

providing information interaction between modern

computing environment and SIA object by means of

adaptive stabilization of control parameters of IA

object and registration of integral responses of SIA

object on the basis of modern hardware and software,

aimed at increasing informativeness of SIA research

with the purpose of end-to-end automation and digital

transformation under the influence of SIRS.

The general concept of human innovation activity

in SIRS consists in heuristic search for solutions by

implementing informal operational research of SIRS

and its subsystems, aimed at efficient operation,

maintenance, service and upgrading of the system to

ensure the life cycle of SIRS.

Human investment activities in SIRS are closely

intertwined with human activities in general. The

feedback of this activity model is presented in the

form of an activity law for this development stage:

Y = F (X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, X6; R ), (1)

where Х1-Х6 are the factors for the existence of

activities: by scope, focus, product, scope, dynamics

of innovation processes;

R is a relationship matrix between these factors.

In most detail, the algorithms of the block

responsible for the work of the decision maker - user

of the innovation manager, financial analyst and

designer (systems engineer) with the knowledge

system in the operation of SIRS were investigated.

The algorithms of SIA situation assessment with

sustainability analysis and economic risk

management of innovation activities are also

presented.

Thus, based on the conducted scientific research

of strategic innovation research system, the structure

of SIRS can be formed and presented in the form of

the following scheme (Figure 1).

3 RESULTS

The following results have been obtained from the

conducted scientific research:

– Methodological, system-informational

prerequisites for the development of models of

economic, information-innovation and

management processes of strategic investment-

innovation activity have been obtained to

create a research system of strategic

investment-innovation activity.

– The investment and innovation activities of

modern enterprises have been analysed and

modelled taking into account the uncertainties

and venture factors of transforming economy

as a prototype of technology for the study of

investment and innovation activities.

– The following models of strategic investment

activity research have been developed:

conceptual (general, basic-level, modification-

level), systemic (tuple-level).

– The structure of the strategic investment-

innovation activity research system is formed

taking into account the introduction of a new

innovation block for the knowledge system

research system.

– System-based requirements for the

technological scheme of strategic investment

and innovation activity research through the

methodological chain "slogans (the most

significant factors) - problem - problem - global

goal - local goals - objectives" are formulated.

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4 CONCLUSIONS

The importance and value of this work lies in the fact

that it provides a methodology for scientific research

in any field of activity both for enterprises and

organizations, and for the development and

improvement of business processes, as well as

competitiveness of developing companies and

corporations. Further development and

modernization of the proposed research system is

planned to apply it in practice, taking into account the

research of uncertainties in a changing environment

based on the assessment of quality criteria for the

management of strategic investment and innovation

activities of modern facilities.

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