| Аннотация | According to some researchers, in recent years there has been an upward trend in predominant
stagnating regions in Russia. The reasons for this include low innovation activity of the periphery,
deindustrialization, predominant extractive industries, capital exports, growing social and property
stratification and other equally important reasons. The current economic and political crisis in our
country is both a threat, an opportunity and an impetus to restructuring the regional economy. In these
conditions it becomes extremely necessary to search for new growth points in the regional economy,
support for the most promising industries, and efficient resource allocation. Inter-regional cooperation
is the most important area of the regional policy, ensuring progressive balanced socio-economic
development of regions based on establishing long-term, equal and mutually beneficial relations between
them. The importance of inter-regional cooperation for the development of modern Russia’s constituent
entities is determined by the fact that it strengthens economic ties between them, optimizes the location
of infrastructure facilities based on cooperation of their activities, eliminates inefficient financial costs
associated with the creation of duplicate economic structures in Russia’s constituent entities and unjustified
inter-regional competition, combines the regions’ economic potential for implementing the most largescale
investment projects, spreads innovative experience in innovation development. The implementation socioof
these measures is complicated by lack of sound socio-economic regional public policy. In this regard,
problems such as systematization of best domestic and foreign practices in interregional cooperation,
research and generalization of theoretical concepts presented in domestic and foreign publications, and
development of an organizational and economic mechanism of managing inter-regional cooperation
and methodological aspects for evaluating the efficiency of this process become relevant. The developed
proposals can be used by public administration entities to improve the efficiency of applying the interregional
cooperation factor as a driver of regional economic growth in the development of legal, strategic
and program-planning documents at the regional level. |