The creation of fertile innovative ecological environment in the country is constrained by barriers of a conceptual nature. The article identifies four groups of such barriers. The authors propose a strategy for overcoming them based on a comparison of functions necessary for the innovative development of social practices and the natural mechanisms of a new life birth. This allows us to formulate a number of pragmatic recommendations for creating an innovative eco-environment for a wide range of industries. By analogy with natural dynamics of obstetrics, the approach is called placental.

In interview with “Economic Strategies” Anatoly Artamonov, Governor of the Kaluga region, described the experience of the Kaluga region’s work with foreign investors, as well as how to create comfortable conditions for doing business in the region.