Development of Regions in the Context of Territorial Differentiation

Abstract

The goal of the study is determination of the spatial offset and geographical coordinates of the economic center in the North Caucasus for 2005 – 2015. The methodological base of the study is built on the centographic method. Results. The research in identifying new factors, mechanisms, and models of the national economy growth has intensified recently. The regional and spatial studies aimed at identifying "growth points", "development spaces", etc. that allow to "restart" the internal sources of growth development are an important area. The state of the economic center of the territory (from national to regional) is an important indicator in assessing the dynamics and structure of the growth development. The economic center of the territory can be a criterion; its behavior (offset to the North, South, West, East, as well as the pace and length of offset) can signal changes in factors, methods, and the mechanism of the existing economic growth in the national (regional) economy. The geographical coordinates of the economic center in the North Caucasus for 2005 – 2015 have been defined in this article. New methodological provisions have been considered that allow defining the coordinates of the economic center of the microregion more correctly. The estimated data have been compared with similar data produced by other authors based on different methods; the advantage of the proposed technique has been demonstrated. Clarifications and methods of calculating and interpreting spatial offset and other centers of the national (regional) economy have been proposed. Conclusion. Certain provisions of the method for defining the location (coordinates) of the economic center, in accordance with which the economic center of the North Caucasus is found, have been provided in the article. The economic center of the North Caucasus is unstable and tends to offset.

Formation of Innovative Ecosystems: Relevant Priorities for Dynamic Sustainability of Regional Development

“…Considering that the dynamic stability of modern economies is associated with the ability to build up innovation potential based on achieving the continuity of the innovation cycle (synergy of innovation) [3], increasing the efficiency of inter-firm communications [4] and interactions with the external environment [5], the concept of innovative ecosystems (CIE) was chosen as a methodological basis for ensuring the sustainability of the regional development as complex integrated structures capable of generating network effects of joint interactions [6][7][8] and thereby stimulating innovative growth. CIE are characterized by the ability to selforganize and expand the possibilities for achieving productivity growth by grading the functional, informational and other dissociation of their elements [9,10], as well as strengthening synergy and symbiosis of joint activities of network partners [11].…”