In the paper, the complex analysis of the regional infrastructure of support of technological entrepreneurship of the Volgograd region, based on the statistical data reflecting the activity of enterprise structures is carried out. The scientific relevance of this research is related to the fact that technological entrepreneurship is a new type of enterprise that meets the requirements of the postindustrial period. The functioning of this type of entrepreneurship is based on a high-tech or knowledge-intensive idea, which contributes to the development of the environment. According to the results of the analysis, the main drawbacks of the regional infrastructure of support of technological entrepreneurship of the Volgograd region, which create barriers in the development of technological entrepreneurship. Based on the identified problems, measures have been developed to overcome them.

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Subject. This article discusses the issues related to the digital development of cities and regions. Objectives. The article aims to create a system of indicators to assess the capacity of smart resilience of Russian cities. Methods. To create such a system, we analyzed the standards developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). Results. The article proposes a system of indicators, including a large number of indicators, combined in seven blocks. The indicators can be supplemented and revised as part of public discussion. Conclusions. The Smart Sustainable City concept can be considered realized if the city knowledge-based social capital is formed and intelligent management is implemented.

The rate of information asymmetry impact on the consumer markets, including socially significant ones, is high. This leads to the situation, when a buyer making a choice often doesn’t satisfy his needs and is exposed to all sorts of risks. Various economic mechanisms can reduce information asymmetry, but it is impossible to completely avoid it. Therefore, the consumer, when making decisions, should primarily overcome the incompleteness of information using different means. In modern society, due to the development of information and communication technologies, tracking and analysis of market information becomes important. Paradox of a modern society is that the buyers have a great amount of information at their disposal, but they are not able to isolate basic knowledge or to tell reliable information from deliberate false data, and, as a result, make a wrong choice. There has been presented a marketing mechanism of overcoming negative effects of information asymmetry, which reduces the risks of the consumer market agents. The conceptual approach proposed is based on the application of consumer behavior modeling and aimed at achieving maximum opportunities in the today objectivity of decisions made by customers. It has been inferred that the marketing mechanism has different subject-object structures in the goods and services markets and in the socially significant markets; as a result of the functioning of the marketing mechanism information asymmetry is reduced, since unreliable information is detected in a timely manner. Both the market and the state benefit from control over information, as there are no institutional traps due to the contradiction of interests between the interactive subjects.

-A region is an open socio-economic system specified by its interaction with external environment. Regulating such complicated systems is associated with choosing the best management decision from a set of possible variants. Although there are new progressive approaches to revealing and solving the problems of administrating the territories of the Russian Federation by developing new strategies of socio-economic development, this procedure preserves some inertial symptoms caused by the problems of information support and exchange. The resulting information asymmetry increases transactional expenses, puts obstacles in the way of economic agents to the best decision and prevents them from allocating required resources, and contributes to the emergence of different types of risks. The article analyzes how the negative effects of information asymmetry influence both the stability and changeability of Russian territories' socio-economic development. Theoretical and methodological approaches to investigating the mechanism of response to and recovery from the asymmetry are proposed.