Tools for Assessment of Innovation Potential of the Business Environment Development in the Region

The purpose of this study is to assess the innovation potential of the economy and prospects for the innovative development of business environment in a particular economic region. Assessment of the innovation potential was performed using fuzzy set analysis and hierarchy analysis. Innovation level of the business environment and its development priorities were determined by the means of complex numbers. During the study, the authors disclosed the contents of the innovation potential of the regional economy, the allocated groups of the business environment, represented the situational modeling of the dynamics of the development of the innovative activity in the territory (development options and their economic interpretation). In the context of the West Siberian and East Siberian economic regions of Russia, the development of innovation potential of the business environment in the territories was assessed under the author's system of indicators that reveal the content of components of the business activity potential. Modeling the innovation potential of the region and business environment demonstrates the viability and validity of their application for the analysis of real economic processes. The presented authoring tools to study the extent of development of innovative economy of the regions will help shape the effective areas of state regulation and support of the business environment at the macro and micro level. Prospects for research in this area are to build multivariate models using computer calculations