?Knowledge economy? as a concept describes a stage of socio-economic development, when knowledge become a major growth factor. In modern economy, it can be associated with processes of knowledge acquiring, creation and dissemination; its main agents are educational, scientific organizations and...

The category of economic-geographical position (EGP) is one of the most common in regional science in Russia. N. Baranskiy firstly proposed the concept: "EGP is an attitude of any place to other outside lying givens that have a particular economic significance. It is extremely important to a...

The article substantiates the need for regionally differentiated innovation policies based on smart specialization principles. Having reviewed the international experiences and literature, we propose guidelines for a new policy aimed at human capital preservation, creation of innovative...

SMEs play an important role in the development of regional innovative systems because of their potential to accept new technologies and show fast growing rates. There is an interdependence between emergence of fast growing SMEs ('gazelles') and innovative development of regions. High level of...

Russia inherited pattern of economic activity location from the Soviet Union, where the main forms of industry organization were territorial-production complexes (TPC) - networks of industrial organizations united by a single technological process or the chain of raw materials processing. In a...

Innovation development is declared as one of the key objectives of social and economic policy in Russia. The purpose of the work was to identify regions with the highest innovation capacity and developed regional innovation system, where support of innovation activities would be the most...

The use of unmanned technologies can cause a decrease in the level of employment. The article discusses the compensation mechanisms and conflicting results of empirical studies. Using internationally comparable methods, we estimated that approximately 27.6% of employees work in professions with...