STRUCTURAL AND DYNAMIC APPROACH TO RESEARCH OF THE REGIONAL ECONOMIC POTENTIAL
The issue of a rational structure of the regional economic potential in the context of solving the problems of modernization and innovation was considered. The need to study the regional economic potential is due to the search for answers to questions about the impact of structural changes on the ongoing transformations. The analysis of the regional economic potential is based on the structural and dynamic approach, which involves the study of the main components of the potential and consideration of their dynamic range. In contrast to the existing studies of the regional economic potential, the novelty of a formulated task is the understanding that the vector of regional development is formed when managerial influences are exercised on those components of economic potential that are capable of creating a resonant effect in the regional economy. The study area was the Rostov region. The analysis was carried out on the basis of the following indicators determining the rationality of the structure of the regional economic potential: the volume of GRP, the level of innovation activity of enterprises, the supply and demand for products of high-tech economic sectors, the number of people employed in the innovation and traditional sectors of the regional economy; the dominant scale of enterprises, the state of the material and technical base and the level of investment in fixed assets, the financial condition of enterprises, the energy and resource intensity of technological processes; the spatial distribution of innovation-oriented enterprises. It is shown that the resonance effect occurs in those components of the economic potential that provide the strongest connectedness of regional actors and processes, projects and environments in which they are carried out. It has been substantiated that for the Rostov region the launch of modernization processes in the region is largely related to solving the tasks of restoring the industrial economic sector on a modern technological basis, as well as the tasks of involving multi-business peripheral entities in projects for the formation of innovative industrial clusters.
Keywords: regional economic potential, modernization development, structural and dynamic analysis, resonant effect.
Highlights:
the effective, from the point of view of solving the problems of modernization, realization of the regional economic potential can be achieved by influencing the factors that determine the development of individual components that stimulate the emergence of innovative responses in the regional system;
the use of the structural and dynamic approach to the study of the regional economic potential allows identifying those points that, firstly, have their own internal dynamics, secondly, are capable of generating innovative impulses when they are subjected to managerial influences;
the most strongly resonant innovation effects in the regional economy are in the implementation of complex management influences on the components of the economic potential, which provide the strongest coherence of regional actors, processes and projects, as well as environments in which they are implemented;
the development prospects of the Rostov region were related to the implementation of import-hindering projects in the field of the agro-industrial sector, the implementation of which will allow to obtain significant synergistic and multiplicative effects, ensuring not only the solution of food safety problems, but also the formation of complete production-technological chains, including economic subjects of various scales of activity with various types.
Olga A. Chernova, Doctor of Economics, Professor of the Department of Information Economics of the Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don.