Integrated Economic and Mathematical Approach to Regulation of Clustering and Innovative Development of Russian Regions

Abstract

The article discusses the features and contradictions of clustering and innovative development, as well as the integrated approach to regulation of clustering processes at the regional level. The author's approach to the development of an integrated clustering model of the economic space of the Russian regions is to consider innovative clusters as the fundamental segments of innovative economy. Within the framework of the study comprehensive methodology for assessing the innovative potential of regions is considered. The article deals with the analysis of economic, financial, scientific and technological conditions for regulating clustering processes and innovative development on example of the Volga region. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the method of complex analysis of the potential of innovative development of regions. The proposed methodology includes both indicators for assessing the factors of formation of a new innovative economy, and indicators of the effectiveness of innovative development, which form the technological and resource reserve for further economic development of the region. The advantage of using proposed methodology is the possibility of separating for each economic district and interregional cluster the leading regions, which acts as the center of innovative transformation of the economic space of the neighboring regions.