Free Economic Zones as the Basement to Increase Innovation and Investment Activity of Economic Units

The fundamental objective of the existing economic system changes is its transition on to a new stage of innovative development by forming of novel models considering territorial, innovative, investment, knowledge-intensive potential of a region. Creation and operation of free economic zones in the RF is a perspective direction for innovative activity promotion, investments attraction, entrepreneurial potential revitalization, the country's competitiveness enhancing on the world arena. In the world free economic zones are considered as multipliers of economical and social development, which are equally able to rehabilitate a depressed territory and give an additional development impulse to the regional growth points. The research scientific novelty is in theoretical ra-tionale and methodical approach development to the formation and functioning of free economic zones on the contemporary development stage. The authors presented the copyright determination of the free economic zones notion and developed their classification under the modern market condition of management. The result of the study is a model of contemporaneous economic zones creation, where the significant resource for their development has been distinguished an opportunity of modern informative technologies application.