The presented study examines the specific aspects and processes of the functioning of regional economies and interregional interaction.Aim. The study aims to analyze the existing mechanisms of the functioning and interaction of regional economic systems.Tasks. The authors present a general scheme for the functioning of a regional economic system; examine the principles of interaction between regional economic systems; determine the specific aspects of inter-sectoral interaction as a form of interregional cooperation.Methods. This study uses general scientific methods, including systems analysis, synthesis, induction and deduction, specification and generalization, and modelling.Results. The authors substantiate a general scheme for the functioning of the regional economic system as an object of management. Its structural elements include the region’s production-economic and socio-economic complexes and the fiscal sphere. It is shown that interregional interaction is now particularly important as it facilitates joint production of goods. Interregional interaction involves the exchange of goods and services, migration processes, and financial exchange. Interregional cooperation should be based on the existing federal and regional strategies. It is established that inter-sectoral interaction and formation of regional sectoral clusters are efficient forms of interregional cooperation.Conclusions. A specific feature of the functioning of regional economies is that it is regulated simultaneously at the macro- and meso-level. Regulation at the meso-level involves the implementation of regional economic development strategies with allowance for the socio-economic features of individual administrative and territorial units. At the macro-level, the regional economy functions within the existing strategy of the federal center and also involves interregional and inter-sectoral interaction.

The article reveals the theoretical and methodological provisions for the formation of the composition of technological elements of the strategic planning system, their interaction with the resource components of the organization of higher education (on the example of Voronezh and St.Petersburg universities) to achieve generalizing and specific targets of quantitative and qualitative nature of the strategic the goal of long-term development of a higher education institution. The concepts of “strategy”, “strategic vision”, “mission of the organization of higher education” are defined. The possibility of optimizing resource consumption in the process of implementing complex measures within the framework of federal, regional, sectoral and local programs and projects of social, economic and innovative development of higher education organizations is substantiated. The priority directions in the development strategy of the analyzed universities are highlighted. The necessity of including such technological elements as strategic analysis, mission, strategic vision, strategic goal, generalizing (basic) strategy, functional (private) strategies in the system of strategic planning of socio-economic and innovative development of the studied universities is substantiated.

The article actualizes the importance of communication support for the process of efficient use of regional innovative subsystems in the conditions of insufficient development of this problem in the economic literature. The necessity of creating a communication support mechanism within a regional innovation subsystem is substantiated, its essence, the principles of construction, as an element of the regional innovation subsystem functioning control are revealed. The scheme of interaction of information and analytical functions of the regional mechanism of communication support of the innovation system of the region is described. The service nature of the participation of elements of the communication support mechanism in the management of innovative processes in the region, as a component of the regional development pole, is determined.

The paper discusses the features of the socio-cultural sphere in conjunction with the trends of economic development. For example, such as organizational and technological, creating a system to support their development and implementation. The paper presents the factors influencing the appearance of innovations in the socio-cultural sphere. The analysis of innovative activity of regional organizations is carried out. The assessment of existing gaps in innovative development is given. The prerequisites for the enhancement of regional differences in the innovative development of socio-cultural organizations have been identified. Based on the conducted analysis, the problems of innovative development are systematized, associated with globalization, the presence of protectionist barriers, and the underdevelopment of tools for goal-oriented planning of innovative development.

Aim. The presented study aims to define a methodological approach to the formalization of regional strategies with allowance for the prospective benefits from the interaction between internal and external components of regional socio-economic systems for the national economy.Tasks. The authors determine the essence of strategic management of regional development by analyzing the internal processes of the interaction between subsystems, components, and elements of the region as a complex socio-economic system; compare the specific features of the functioning and interaction of administrative divisions in a planned and market economy; substantiate the principles of mutually beneficial interregional interaction and the need to improve supra-regional economic efficiency in view of the allowance made for the projected effects of interregional interaction in rational strategic planning; define the concept of strategic management of regional socio-economic systems and formulate an approach to the formation of the management process.Methods. This study use general scientific methods, including systems analysis, synthesis, induction and deduction, detalization and generalization, modelling.Results. The process of formation and coordination of regional strategies is conceptualized as a basic element of the organizational mechanism of strategic management of the functioning and development of regional socio-economic systems. A system diagram is provided that makes allowance for three hierarchical levels of management (federal, interregional, regional), each acting on the appropriate level of abstraction and introducing its inherent critical aspects of rational planning of national spatial development. It is shown that strategic planning of interregional interaction at the supra-regional level makes it advisable to develop multi-regional, multi-sectoral computer models that would help to achieve a state of interaction close to economic equilibrium, thus ensuring future functioning of the national economy based on the planning principle applied in a brand new way.Conclusions. The system of strategic management of regional development and interregional interaction should be a multilevel, hierarchically ordered mechanism for the formation and implementation of a strategic plan for the spatial development of the country. Such a system should be aimed at functionally maintaining social and economic, planned and competitive balance between national expediency determined by state strategic priorities and independent regional development guidelines without degenerating into bureaucratic formalism when creating regional development concepts on the one hand and without turning into a constant competitive struggle of divergent interests of the regions on the other. It is advisable to develop an integrated (supra-regional) approach to the strategic management of regions as regional socio-economic systems based on the conceptual organizational-managerial mechanism for their functioning and development. This approach should be aimed at achieving the planned supra-regional efficiency (socio-economic balance) using not-yet-manifested projected interregional synergetic and agglomeration effects from the use of interregional (national) infrastructure, scientifically based implementation of absolute and relative regional advantages in the process of determining and planning future regional specialization at the federal level, deployment and development of the territorial cores of intersectoral clusters serving as the starting points of growth for an optimally balanced crystal lattice of spatial development on the national scale, implementation of interregional interaction of expected quantity and quality, mathematically justified with allowance for the needs of interregional and intersectoral exchange, intra- and intersystem structures, elements, communicative relationships, dynamics and stages of the life cycle of industries, organizations, the ability to adapt to changes in the external environment of the regions included in the system.