Economic role of the knowledge transfer is studied on the example of the Russian North-East and its two basic branches that is exploration and mining which form the core of the regional economy (regional mining system). Russian North-East can be considered as isolated industrial district with...

Following the methodology of Council for the study of productive forces (SOPS) we estimate the contemporary level of investment activity in 9 regions of the Far Eastern Federal District (FEFD) of Russia. We received the following results: the average level of investment activity in the Far...

This research is based on the materials collected during the preparation of the official Strategies of socio-economic development of two oil-producing cities in the south of Yamal-Nenets autonomous Okrug: Muravlenko and Gubkinsky. Our study shows that for the success of diversification not only...

The main idea of the research is to investigate how the communication processes could result in the location of productive forces in contemporary Russian regions. The results are based on utilizing several traditional and new methods of regional analysis. We have analyzed: 1) Inter-regional...

To create state of the art picture of the European regional science review of Lodz Congress papers will be combined with the materials of our previous reviews of reports from the last four Congresses, and our analysis of hundreds of papers published in the major journals of regional science for...

The major reason of economic depression of old industrial regions is the aging of their economic structure and loss of competitive advantages of their basic sectors. Not the sectors of the regional economy are getting old but determined by economic age conditions of their development in the...

One of unexpected results of the economic reform in Russia was the rebirth of interest for regional programs and schemes as documents of strategic planning. Regional and municipal authorities, scientific community (not only Keynesian-like, but liberal economist Friedman-style as well), big and...

After a decade of reform contrasts between regions in Russia in per resident regional gross product and per resident real income have increased essentially. The challenge to smooth these inequalities is one of the high priorities for the contemporary Russian federal regional policy. For this...

ERSA Congress can be seen as laboratory of ideas with broad representation not only European, but also scientists from US, Japan, Korea, Brazil, African and Asian countries. With very high speed new thoughts and phenomena from the European regional scientific community appear on the stages of...

First years of the economic growth of the Russian economy on one side, and the enlargement of the European Union on the other side, create mych more similarities in the cohesion policy of both entities now than in the 1990-s. Russian Federation is experiencing the shift from the dominance of the...