The paper describes a methodological approach to competitiveness of a region. The regional setting is viewed as a market envelope, and each individual factor displays its competitive advantage (the competitive region's position) in terms of rates of labor productivity growth on enterprises...

The purpose of the article is to show that the unevenness of innovative development of Russian regions is the objective reality due to historical, technological, social and economic aspects of placement and operation of innovative factors in the territories of Russia and other countries. It is...

The paper analyzes the contradictory features of the Siberian development which do not fully reflect what Siberia contributes to the growth of the country’s economy. We consider several investment preconditions which would allow new industrialization in Siberia and the Far East, and what our...

The paper shows a present state of the Siberian scientific, technological and innovation potential which includes a number of scientific achievements of world's significance, a developed system of higher education and scientific personnel training, and an advanced industrial complex including...

The paper analyses the methodological issues of assessing the proportion of different investments which may positively influence on shaping the knowledge economy and technological sophistication, and shows the national and regional trends in shaping factors of such investments especially those...

The paper analyzes the opinions about the opportunities for creation and development of the innovative climate in the country expressed by scientists from the Tomsk, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk and Kemerovo research centres (SB RAS) in a sociological poll carried out in 2002-2003. The scientists spoke...

The paper examines the results of a study of statistical correspondence between ratings of investment climate and factual investments in regions over the 1996-2002 period. It was necessary to select indicators of regional investment activity, building a database of indicators of investment...

The paper considers the substance and structure of the innovative climate in a region. While the generation of innovations depends on the existence of the relevant research personnel, the performance of innovative enterprises depends primarily on their retrospective location, technological...

The formation of the technological basis of a region is treated in macro and micro terms. The authors give the definition to the technological basis of the economy and present its epistemological model in the form of a matrix of the existing technological basis and a matrix of preconditions for...

The paper describes the IEIE SB RAS’s experience of how the preplanning regional researches have been carried out and how the recommendations based on such researches have been applied to the practice of planning and governance. The paper retrospectively shows the evolution of the topic and...