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Н.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Turginbayeva</surname><given-names>A. N.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Д.э.н.</p><p>Алматы</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>D.e.s.</p><p>Almaty</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">ardakt@illinois.edu</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4821-7733</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Серикбай</surname><given-names>Д. Д.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Serikbay</surname><given-names>D. D.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>М.э.н.</p><p>Алматы</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>M.e.s.</p><p>Almaty</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">d.serikbay@kbtu.kz</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9014-3385</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Анархан</surname><given-names>А. К.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Anarkhan</surname><given-names>A. K.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Докторант</p><p>Алматы</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD student</p><p>Almaty</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">aizhan2790@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Казахский национальный университет им. аль-Фараби</institution><country>Казахстан</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Al-Farabi Kazakh National University</institution><country>Kazakhstan</country></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff-2"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Казахстанско-Британский технический университет</institution><country>Казахстан</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Kazakh-British Technical University</institution><country>Kazakhstan</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2026</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>28</day><month>09</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>23</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>643</fpage><lpage>656</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Тургинбаева А.Н., Серикбай Д.Д., Анархан А.К., 2026</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Тургинбаева А.Н., Серикбай Д.Д., Анархан А.К.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Turginbayeva A.N., Serikbay D.D., Anarkhan A.K.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://vestnik.kbtu.edu.kz/jour/article/view/3223">https://vestnik.kbtu.edu.kz/jour/article/view/3223</self-uri><abstract><p>В данной статье рассматривается представление неравенства в доступе к НИОКР в глобальном исследовательском ландшафте и оцениваются причины отсутствия его концептуального развития как самостоятельной аналитической категории. Несмотря на значительную работу в области региональных инновационных систем (РИС), экономической географии и институциональной теории, существующие исследования сосредоточены на результатах инноваций и конечных продуктах инноваций, а не на процессах и условиях внутри системы и на том, кто участвует в производстве знаний. Дисбаланс в исследовательской инфраструктуре, научном потенциале, финансовых ресурсах для проведения исследований и финансировании научных исследований плохо теоретизирован и в большинстве случаев некорректно рассматривается в существующих доминирующих теориях. Данное исследование направлено на достижение прогресса в этой области с использованием двойной методологии исследования, основанной на библиометрическом картировании на основе данных Scopus и Web of Science за 2014–2025 гг. Методология, использованная в данном исследовании, сочетает в себе картирование основных исследовательских областей и более целенаправленное картирование различных концепций, связанных с доступом и неравенством, что позволяет выявить как доминирующие, так и маргинальные тематические структуры. Признана возможность доступа к НИОКР; однако доступ к НИОКР на неравных условиях, по-видимому, фрагментирован по многим исследовательским областям и неразличимым периферийным областям исследований. Исследование расширяет библиометрическую теорию, рассматривает доступ к НИОКР как исследовательский аспект регионального неравенства и проливает свет на двойной дисбаланс в глобальной исследовательской системе.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>This study examines how inequality in access to research and development (R&amp;D) is represented within the global research landscape and why it remains weakly consolidated as an independent analytical category. Drawing on bibliographic records retrieved from Scopus and the Web of Science Core Collection for 2014 – 2025, the study applies author – keyword co – occurrence analysis to examine the thematic structure of research related to regional innovation, spatial inequality, economic geography, and research capacity. The integrated dataset contains 7,592 records. Using a minimum occurrence threshold of five, 106 author keywords were retained and organized into nine thematic clusters. The resulting network is dominated by established themes such as regional development, peripheral regions, core – periphery relations, regional innovation, and spatial inequality, while terminology explicitly referring to R&amp;D access appears comparatively weak and fragmented. The findings therefore provide bibliometric evidence of limited thematic consolidation around R&amp;D access rather than establishing it as an empirically validated dimension of inequality. Building on this pattern, the study proposes R&amp;D access as a distinct analytical dimension of regional inequality and outlines three conceptual forms – material, cognitive, and institutional access-for future empirical investigation.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>неравенство в доступе к НИОКР</kwd><kwd>региональные инновационные системы</kwd><kwd>экономическая география</kwd><kwd>библиометрический анализ</kwd><kwd>двойное картирование</kwd><kwd>исследовательская инфраструктура</kwd><kwd>пространственное неравенство</kwd><kwd>производство знаний</kwd><kwd>региональное неравенство</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>R&amp;D access</kwd><kwd>regional inequality</kwd><kwd>regional innovation systems</kwd><kwd>economic geography</kwd><kwd>bibliometric analysis</kwd><kwd>research infrastructure</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="en">This research has been funded by the Science Committee of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Grant No. AP26198249: An exploration of innovative approaches to overcoming regional inequality in access to R&amp;D in the interest of boosting the intellectual vanguard of Kazakhstan)</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Armbrecht, F.M.R. 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