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A case study during pandemic revealed the major drawbacks of the traditional product development process for MedTech industry. Disruption of conventional manufacturing, urgent need for accelerated design and production, faster regulatory approval have challenged the industry. In this paper the conventional medical product development process is explored based on the intramuscular injector case study. The study revealed core areas for improvement of the medical devices development process. The paper proposes the Lean-Agile methodology with the incorporated elements of Concurrent Engineering.

The importance of human resources for the region's competitiveness and for the formation of its competitive advantages has increased during the postindustrial economic period and development of innovative activities. Human resources are one of key factors that can influence the region's competitiveness. As a result, the problem of region's human resources evaluation remains relevant, and also the problem of revealing the factors influencing the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of mentioned resources. Nowadays there are no indicators (neither theoretical nor practical ones) letting to evaluate the region's provision with human resources for the future. The target of this research is the development of theoretical theses and practical recommendations on the regional human resources evaluation. According to the mentioned target of the research, the following tasks were set: to reveal the factors influencing quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the Volgograd region's human resources, to create an accurate forecast of the population's changes in the region, and to develop an indicator which could evaluate the region's provision with human resources for the future. The following methods were used in the research: observation, comparison, survey, table and graphical methods, statistical methods, economical methods and models, methods of economical analysis. As a result of the research the following conclusions were made. Firstly, according to our accurate forecast, the Volgograd's region population won't stop decreasing and it will count 2432000 people by 2023. Secondly, we identified the factors influencing the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of human resources in the Volgograd region. Thirdly, the special indicator was developed and it is the index of the region's provision with human resources for the future.

For the further development of the Russian economy in the context of global transformation, various forms of a joint venture between state structures and commercial organizations are of great importance. One of the instruments for such interaction is a public-private partnership (PPP), whose main objective is to improve public welfare by combining efforts and resources of the parties, optimally distributing their responsibility and risk. In the article, we conducted an analysis of PPPs in the healthcare sector as a comprehensive study of positive and negative factors, which may affect the PPPs effective development in health care modernization. The analysis revealed key strategic priorities of the PPP development in the healthcare sector. Favorable legal, organizational and institutional conditions are required for efficient management of PPP projects implementation in health care modernization in order to increase the level of availability and quality of medical services.