Problems and measures of innovative activity support in the system of economic security of the Volgograd region

The article analyses theoretical studies of the notion "economic securty" and the methodology of its assessement in practice using the regional economic system as an example. On the basis of the comparative analysis of threshold values which characterize the sustainability of the regional economy to external and internal challenges and threats, the study of indicators (economic, social, innovative and ecological ones) in comparison with real values of a region of the Russian Federation (Volgograd region) was carried out. The discprepancies of the threshold values calculated for the Volgograd region determined the necessity of the analysis of factors of economic and institutional character having a significant impact on the constituents mentioned above including the aspect of the encouragement of innovations' development. Besides the study allowed finding a number of legal, infrastructural, social and cultural problems the solution of which will allow increasing the level of economic security of the Volgograd reigon.