The increasing role of human capital, knowledge and high technology indicates the formation of a new stage of economic development – the knowledge economy, from which innovation becomes an integral part of business. However, in terms of innovation development, Russia lags behind the western countries several times. At the same time, the development of Russian regions is extremely uneven. First, it concerns mining regions. For analysis, a key mining cluster of Russian Federation was chosen – Kemerovo Region. The article assesses the innovative potential of the region, and identifies the most pressing problems that impede its integration into the knowledge economy. Solving existing problems should be carried out through a set of measures aimed at developing partnerships of government, mining science and mineral resources extracting business, creating conditions for attracting and retaining highly qualified specialists to the mining enterprises, creating an appropriate infrastructure, increasing the region’s investment attractiveness, developing interregional and international cooperation in the field of subsoil extracting management.

Currently, the economic development of an industry or type of activity cannot be considered in isolation from the spatial component. Any organization is located in some territory. It has to interact not only with suppliers and consumers, but also with the population that lives in this territory. Therefore, the economic efficiency of the activities of any organization is directly related to the social-and-economic situation of a particular space, territory. The regions in which mining enterprises are located and systemically important are no exception. These organizations belong to the “technological periphery”. New technological solutions, which are the core of economic development for new industries and some of the traditional industries, come here with a delay. Moreover, for many of their consumers, their products are not in demand. And the consequence of this is not only the economic problems of the enterprise, but also the social problems of the region or settlement. The article considers the problem of functioning for these enterprises and regions in the conditions of a new technological structure.

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During the era of production’s global automation the fixed assets as a part of all enterprise’s assets are the most important ones. They pay off at length that’s why to get profit constantly, it is necessary to increase fixed assets’ utilization efficiency. Having analyzed movement, makeup and structure of fixed assets, the enterprise management is getting an opportunity to reveal ways and reserves of fixed assets’ utilization efficiency increase, to find and correct in time the negative deviations which can entail further serious consequences for enterprise’s successful activity. Any complex of actions aimed on improvement of use of capacities and fixed assets has to provide the productivity progress, first of all at the expense of intra-entity reserves’ effective use, full utilization of machines and equipment, reduction of remobilized capacities’ assimilation terms.

In the article authors raise the actual direction — food services workers of industrial enterprises. Provision of food should be produced in integrating efforts of resources and the possibilities of partners (industry — trade) on the basis of the organizational and economic model of food production system.