Regional potential of scientific and technological development of the national economy: formalization and performance assessment

Aim. The work aimed to assess the regional potential of the scientific and technological development of the national economy, as well as to identify industrial territories with a hereditary predisposition to innovative activity.

Tasks. The work was performed to determine factors influencing the innovative activity of industrial territories, to develop the methods for formalizing and evaluating the efficiency of the regional potential of scientific and technological development of industrial regions, to evaluate the methods and identify the industrial regions with a predisposition to further innovative development of the economy.

Methods. The author applied the Frobenius norms which enable to integrate the indices of innovative activity of enterprises, population, and authorities into one complex indicator over a long time interval. The methodology special aspect consists in the synthesis of index and matrix methods for formalizing the regional potential of scientific and technological development, which enables to model the expansion trend of innovative activity of an industrial territory in the multidimensional space of its economic relations.

Results. Approbation of the author’s developments on the example of industrial regions enabled to classify the territories according to the criteria of “possessing a predisposition to innovative activity”; “having a latent potential of scientific and technological development”; “having problems in managing the potential of scientific and technological development”; “receiving innovation effects less than due”. In addition, the points of generation of innovations are identified.

Conclusions. Inherited programs for the development of such regions as the Chuvash Republic, the city of Moscow, as well as Nizhny Novgorod, Sverdlovsk, Tomsk, Yaroslavl, and Omsk regions, Perm Territory, Udmurt Republic, comprise innovations. At the same time, innovative solutions and economic returns from them are continuously accumulated in the current technological mode of economic development. This fact must be taken into account when solving regional problems of individualization of strategies for choosing and implementing the priorities of scientific and technological development of the national economy.

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