Interrelation of the rate of Russian Arctic regions' economic development and the innovative activities of industrial production

摘要

Arctic regions are the most important raw material base for the further development of the Russian economy but industrial production located there operates in adverse climatic conditions and the nature is extremely vulnerable to production waste pollution. In this regard it is very important to consider the current state and prospects of innovative activities of the industry. The paper considers the method of identifying the interrelation between the rates of economic growth of production in the regions of the Federation and its innovative activities based on a quantitative determination of the extensiveness and intensity of growth and the determination of the possibility of innovative development. At the same time an increase in the level of innovative activities should lead to a simultaneous increase in material efficiency, capital efficiency, and labor productivity. The dynamics of the rates of extensiveness and intensity of economic growth in all four regions of the Arctic for the period 2005-2016 over three separate types of industrial activity is shown. It is noted that economic growth in all regions was predominantly extensive. The intensive type of growth was only in certain regions in certain years of the analyzed period. It was determined that in order to increase the level of innovative activities of the industry government support is needed in the form of forming and implementing an appropriate incentive system including the "quasi-self-financing" of innovative activities.