The Identification of Regional Competitiveness Potentials

Valery Maksimovich Tumin¹, Arkadiy Vasilyevich Polyarus², Svetlana Nikolaevna Lomachenko³, Aleksandr Sergeevich Troshin³ and Svetlana Yurievna Doroshenko³

¹Moscow State University, Fine Chemical Technology Named 0fter M.V.Lomonosov, Russian Federation, 119571, Moscow, Pr-t Vernadskogo, 86, Russian. ²LLC St. Petersburg Chemical Company, Russian Federation, 193318, Saint-Petersburg, Voroshilova str., 2, Russian. ³Belgorod State Technological University named after V.G. Shukhov, Russian Federation, 308012, Belgorod, Kostyukov Street, 46, Russian.

ABSTRACT: Formation of national competitiveness is impossible without increasing the competitiveness of regions, without creating the conditions for this, in particular, the development of competitive activity, informational ensuring of civilized and efficient market functioning with a social goals. In practical terms, increasing regional competitiveness is important for the national economy and for the interaction with external partners. Realization of competitive advantages at the regional level can be less costly and risky than at the federal level. In addition, the rate of “regional competitiveness” as a generalized description of the region has significant methodological sense, that allows to improve the existing and find new and effective management tools for development regions and territories: analysis and evaluation of the current and future state of the regional economic system; methods for better identification of their strengths and weaknesses, the profile of competitive advantages; development methods for different strategies of socio-economic policy, taking into consideration the features of regional conditions and their specific goals.

KEYWORDS: Regional competitiveness; Sources of regional competitiveness; The potentials of regional competitiveness; Regional innovation system

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