The article analyzes the work of a number of regions (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tomsk oblast) on stimulating innovation activity by providing additional benefits or preferences for organizations listed in the region's Register of Innovation-Active or Innovative Organizations. The methods used in...

The author argues that in crisis conditions a survival strategy for firms does not consist in abandoning investment but in adopting breakthrough ideas and technologies and applying them to production.

The state plays a role in reducing the transaction costs of an economic system. While the scholarly focus seems to be on the indirect role of the state through the legal system and the definition and enforcement of property rights, economists seem to overlook the direct role the state has to...