Encouragement of Innovative Activity of Economic Agents as a Basis for Regional Competitiveness Growth: Institutional Aspect

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10.2991/iscfec-18.2019.278How to use a DOI?

Keywords

institutions; competitiveness; region; factors; innovative activity

Abstract

The article studies the influence of institutional factors on the innovative activity in the region as a basis of its competitiveness (using as the example the Volgograd region). In the result of the analysis of the competitiveness of the mentioned subject of the Russian Federation and after the study the conditions by which it is determined (institutes, infrastructure, macroeconomic stability, healthcare and higher education) a set of challenges reducing the efficiency of the social and economic development is identified both for the region and for the country as a whole. In order to meet the mentioned challenges the following measures are suggested: improvement of normative and legal base in the conditions of the dialogue “authorities-business”; creation of necessary infrastructural objects in the innovative sphere; elimination of “ambiguity” of standards at auditing; harmonization of the indicators. The mentioned steps will allow increasing the innovative character of the economic agents as they will create necessary conditions for the activation of the work in this sphere and consequently will strengthen the competitive positions of the region within the national market.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - I. S. Averina
AU  - M. E. Buyanova
AU  - A. E. Kalinina
PY  - 2019/01
DA  - 2019/01
TI  - Encouragement of Innovative Activity of Economic Agents as a Basis for Regional Competitiveness Growth: Institutional Aspect
BT  - Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference "Far East Con" (ISCFEC 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1230
EP  - 1233
SN  - 2352-5428
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DO  - 10.2991/iscfec-18.2019.278
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