The persistence ofthe negative effects of structural shift in Russian economy is manifested in its de-industrialization, reduction of global competitiveness and the threat of technological identity loss. The initiation of a positive structural shift requires the formation of an economic structural policy, the core of which will be a change in the reproductive proportions during the development ofthe innovation-and-investment interrelations between government and business. The authors analyze approaches to the formation of economic policies aimed at ensuring a positive structural shift, impeding its implementation in Russian economy, and suggest its main conceptual provisions
