PROSPECTS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF NETWORK INTERACTION IN SMALL CITIES AND DISTRICT CENTERS
The article illustrates prospective directions of network interaction between small cities and regional centers considering international experience and peculiarities of the Russian institutional environment. The article is devoted to the development of small towns and regional centers on the basis of their mutually beneficial network interaction. The most promising directions were selected as priorities from the point of view of transforming a small city into effective socio-economic space, actualizing the existing potential, as well as those opportunities that objectively exist in the context of the state management of strategic indicators. The study identified the main problems of small towns; data on complex network projects, which include small cities, are summarized; perspective directions of network interaction are characterized.
Keywords: network interaction, small cities, potential, state and municipal management.
Highlights:
♦ small cities are strategic points of growth in regional and national economies;
♦ the potential of small towns is insufficient for independent growth, therefore, inclusion in highly developed industrial, transport and logistic, tourist-recreational networks is necessary;
♦ the important area of network interaction is the quality improvement of municipal management, which allows redistributing resources more effectively between small towns and regional centers;
♦ the most promising areas of network interaction have become tourist-recreational, trade-industrial, transport and logistic;
♦ the actualization of identified areas will contribute to a synergetic effect for the socio-economic development of regions.
Matvey S. Oborin, Doctor of Economics, Associate Professor of the Department of Economic Analysis and Statistics, Perm Institute (branch) of Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Professor of the Department of World and Regional Economics, Economic Theory, Perm State National Research University; Marina Yu. Sheresheva, Doctor of Economics, Professor of the Department of Applied Institutional Economics, Director of the Center for Network Economics Studies, Laboratory of Institutional Analysis of the Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University.