DEVELOPMENT OF A CONCEPT MODEL OF AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS MANAGEMENT

The regional issue of economic competitiveness development becomes more and more important for Russia being to a significant extent influenced by economic environment segregation. Thus, a search of optimal approaches to the management of such a complicated object as regional economic competitiveness becomes important. Consequently, this article is focused on development of an integrated system of regional economic competitiveness management allowing to the fullest extent to consider reserves of certain advantages. The most important approach to the management of regional economic competitiveness is cluster type of its spatial organization which is the most efficient one from the point of view of increase of investment and innovation activities as well as other areas of activities of business units on the regional territory. This article proposes a concept model of management of regional economic competitiveness represented as a hierarchal three-level structure allowing to consider it at high level within a closed unified circle, on the one hand, and in a detailed way at the level of a region, an industrial cluster, and independent business units integrated into it, on the other hand. The article materials may be useful for regional authorities in their activities of regional economic competitiveness development.