Over the past decades, significant structural changes have occurred in European countries' labour markets. In this work, the following goals were set: to study the spatial features of the distribution of the educational potential of the economically active population; to analyse the investment...

The paper shows that the innovation activities of Russian companies is determined, rather, short motifs. A number of factors are under the direct influence of the regional authorities. Correlation and regression analysis showed that the current policy of inter-budgetary relations leads to the...