Bannikov A.Yu.

Purpose. The research is targeted at analyzing methodological approaches to selecting directions of financial support to innovative territorial clusters and also at offering methodology of integral assessment of innovative territorial cluster activity based on quantitative and qualitative criteria. Methods. With the aim of considering innovative programs, policies and regulations of innovative territorial development the research is based on comparative analysis and systematization, and on mathematical methods to design integral methods for innovative territorial cluster activity estimation. Results and practical importance. The methodology of integral estimation of innovative territorial cluster activity provides for developing a direction of the further state financial support to innovative territorial cluster. At the same time, the article gives an overview of the proposals on measures of state support to innovative infrastructure in the innovative territorial clusters. Scientific novelty. A combination of revealed cluster development potentials is identified as the criterion for selecting tools of state support to innovative territorial clusters. Subsidies out of state budget are also found to be the most effective for supporting clusters with high strategic and research capacity.

Purpose. Identification and evaluation of factors concerning competitiveness of the Russian regions. Methods. In the research, the author used the methods of typology and grouping, and comparative, cartographic research methods. To make calculations the author used methods of economic-statistical analysis. Results and practical importance. The author substantiated the factors influencing the improvement of regions competitiveness; determined the territories, which have positive dynamics of an integral competitiveness index, and key forces for improvement of regions competitiveness. Scientific novelty. The author characterized key groups of factors of regions competitiveness; proposed an instrument of additional assessment of conditions for labor activity in regions.