Providing Innovative Processes in the Economic Development of the Russian Regions

One of the most important demonstrations of the modern economy is the growing importance of innovation. The innovative process, or the process of technological change is a complex concept encompassing the improvement of products, production processes, raw materials as well as management methods. Therefore, the central  aim of the research is to analyse the innovative processes that contribute to the development of the state economy. To accomplish the objectives, we carried out the calculations to examine the relations between the cost indicators, modelling, correlation and regression analyses. The particularities of business processes in innovative activities of organisations leads to uneven distribution, specific cost structure in the crisis and the traditional situation of an insignificant share of innovation in the financing process. The study presents mathematic model of innovation activities of an enterprise, based on economic indicators of current operations. The object of the research are industrial enterprises. Since an important segment of business processes in innovation is small innovative companies, our task is to develop a methodology for forecasting the number that would be suitable for them. From the findings of our research, we concluded that the models that had been previously developed were more effective at the micro level. Based on the analysis of the distribution of costs between technological, marketing, organisational innovations by types of innovation and economic activities by building an adequate set of statistical models, we have identified the following particularities: the basic internal (directly dependent) and external (indirectly affecting) factors that affect the selected performance characteristics

Risk Assessment Regarding the Implementation of Public-Private Partnership Projects in the World Practice

In market conditions, the state bore a heavy burden of functions that might be too heavy and sometimes almost unmanageable because of historical development, deepened by the realities of the world economy, as well as various crisis phenomena repeatedly analysed in this and past centuries. At the same time, combining the possibilities of state regulation and market opportunities of business entities, it is possible to achieve significant results by solving a wide range of issues regarding the provision of public services. The research aims to form the potential structure of the European Union development and global practice in the form of development of public-private partnership projects. It is determined by the need that we can agree that the basis of public-private partnership (PPP) relations is the interdependence of business and government regulation which is reflected in the existence of the relations between the representatives of public and private sectors. The result of the research demonstrates that the PPP is a form of cooperation in which the state and private sector jointly implement socially significant projects based on the agreement on the distribution of tasks and risks.  Indeed, it is an institutional alliance between the state and business established for a certain period for the implementation of a specific project and ceases to exist after its implementation. To accomplish the research objectives, we have developed a methodological approach to the coordination of the economic interests of the PPP participants. The approach includes the implementation of multivariate calculations of the PPP project internal cost using the method of discounted cash flows, revision of the agreement terms and the choice of such values of the PPP agreement parameters

Prospects for the Development of the Oil and Gas Industry in the Regional and Global Economy

Problems of energy efficiency, along with increasing environmental safety of production and increasing social responsibility, are becoming a central object of research. Therefore, the main goal of the work is to analyze the prospects for the development of the oil and gas industry. It was established that innovative technologies play an important role in the development of energy. In the structure of public administration, the definition of the place in the close relationship with commodity-money relations, mediating its implementation. But refusal of oil resources will lead to negative consequences. It is established that the maximum production of conventional oil in the world in the amount of 4.5-4.8 billion tons per year will be achieved in 2020-2030. Major areas of conventional oil production in this period will be oil and gas basins of the Persian Gulf, Western and Eastern Siberia, the Caspian sea, the Atlantic shelves of Africa and South America. The achieved level of oil production can be maintained by large-scale involvement in the development of non-traditional sources (bitumen and shale oil). According to the raw material base, the leaders of unconventional oil production should be Venezuela, Canada, Russia and the United States. Keywords: environmental policy, oil production, forecast, coal-fired power plants, economic crisis. JEL Classifications: L100, Q400, Q430