Synergetic Model of the Innovation Ecosystem in Wartime Conditions and Its Information Support

Abstract

In the context of a full-scale war, innovation activity acquires a fundamentally new significance, transforming from a factor of long-term economic development into a key instrument for ensuring national security, economic resilience, and technological advantage. War significantly alters the nature of innovation processes, accelerating their dynamics, increasing the level of uncertainty, and strengthening the dependence of outcomes on the effectiveness of interaction among various actors. Under such conditions, traditional approaches to the formation and implementation of innovation policy, based on linear or hierarchical models, prove insufficient for explaining the mechanisms of innovation creation and management. The relevance of the study is determined by the need to rethink the theoretical foundations of the state’s innovation policy, taking into account the specifics of a wartime economy, where the speed of decision implementation, system adaptability, and the ability to mobilize resources are of decisive importance. A special role in this process is played by the interaction between the state, business, research institutions, the military sector, and civil society, which together form a complex innovation ecosystem characterized by nonlinearity, self- organization, and emergence (the appearance of new properties, functions, or outcomes at the level of the system as a whole as a result of the interaction and interconnection of its constituent elements). In this context, the application of a system-synergetic approach appears particularly promising, as it allows the innovation ecosystem to be considered as a dynamic system of interacting elements, where the key source of economic value creation lies not only in the aggregation of resources, but in the nature and intensity of the relationships between them. Such an approach makes it possible to explain the effects of accelerated innovation development under wartime conditions, when interactions among actors generate new systemic properties that cannot be reduced to the sum of individual components.