The world practice shows that investment growth ensure the economy growth both at national level and regional level. The maxim is proved by the experience of most countries which have committed in the past decade a sharp spurt in its economic development. This realization has led to the fact that both developed and emerging economies try to attract investment in the economy on a national and regional scale and it is considered as one of the priorities of economic policy. The global financial crisis in 2007–2008 introduced significant changes in the dynamics of global investment process and changed the position of his main subjects. The article deals with the dynamics of foreign direct investment in the world and in Russia, provides an overview of the world’s investment attractiveness ratings of the countries, analyzes indicators of investment attractiveness of the Russian economy.

The article deals with the formation of information systems, management of intellectual property in knowledge-intensive organizations. The aim of the research is theoretical justification for the development and implementation of automated information systems, management of intellectual property in high-tech companies and corporations which constitute a part of an integrated automated information systems management organization or corporation, as the application of ERP II. The survey identifies the nature and content of information systems in the economy, investigates the role of intellectual property in the development of innovative economy in Russia, proposes the classification of technical solutions in the field of information systems managing the intellectual property, analyzes the experience of intellectual property management in leading Russian and foreign organizations and corporations, and represents the review of the existing automated information systems for intellectual property management. It is concluded that it is necessary to practically test the development and implementation of automated information systems, management of intellectual property in high-tech companies and corporations as the application of ERP II.

Structural changes in the components of the global socio-economic development, conditions of instability limiting Russia’s access to international financial resources, technology, low activity of industrial enterprises in the development of knowledge-intensive areas of production determine the need for improvements in technology creation and innovation diffusion in the framework of the national innovation system through the use of competency centers potential in various areas of expertise for the development and introduction of advanced science and technology in the practice of economic activity of industrial enterprises.

As part of our proposed development of an innovative concept the central place is occupied by the phenomenon of innovation diffusion, which is associated with the spread of product and process innovation through the system of information, economic, organization and management links between all elements and subsystems of the national innovation system. When speaking on innovation diffusion the E. Rogers point of view, who defined the innovation diffusion as a process by which an innovation goes in time and space through communication channels among the participants of the socio-economic system has become classic.

The author’s model of innovation diffusion, taking into account the specifics of the Russian Federation, is a relationship of six members:

1) R&D centers;

2) large, small and medium businesses;

3) the State;

4) technological centers of excellence;

5) offshore design and programming centers;

6) regional engineering centers.

According to the authors, the current world market requires a model of diffusion of innovations, which is the combination of technology transfer and knowledge spillover, based on the type of multilateral networking.

The novelty of the proposed model of innovation diffusion lies in the fact that the theoretical models of innovation diffusion of other authors did not take into account the peculiarities of innovations diffusion in each country, and in particular, the authors of the model take into account the innovation diffusion only for the Russian Federation in modern conditions. The proposed measures for the innovation diffusion in the Russian Federation are based on the analysis of statistical indicators to measure technology transfer for the 2010–2014, collected by the Federal Service of State Statistics from the «balance of payments for technology» form.

This article discusses the most promising areas for enforcing the efforts on development of high-tech cooperation between Russia and India. The cooperation with India began already during the Soviet period. Today, despite a substantial increase in the absolute value in trade and investment cooperation between the two countries over the past half decade, their relative shares in the total external trade and investment remain insignificant. A substantial experience of cooperation between Russia and India in both the Soviet and Russian period, and the opening new areas of cooperation with changes in the geopolitical situation in the world economy, makes India one of the most promising and important partners for the Russian Federation. In this situation it is urgent to identify the strong and weak points of current cooperation in hi-tech sector, which is universally recognized as the most important for the existence of the modern state. The analysis identified 5 most relevant technological sectors of cooperation between Russia and India – nuclear, aerospace, pharmaceutical, and militarytechnical sphere and the sphere of information and telecommunication technologies. The current projects and areas of collaboration in scientific fields and production spheres of high-tech products with the most potential are discussed in detail. An overview of the current state of Russian–Indian relations in light of the ongoing pragmatic rethinking of foreign policy priorities of both countries, is presented. Branches with the best prospects for the application of state efforts for cooperation on a new level are indentified.

Russia and China have mutual interests in developing cooperation, increasing investment and implementating major projects. Enforcing joint efforts in the development of natural resources in Siberia and the Far East, the development of modern technologies in the petrochemical industry and other fields of science and technology on equal conditions provide new opportunities for the integration of innovative technologies and the implementation of joint science intensive projects. Since 2014 a serious economic growth in the RussianChinese partnership is registered. Russia and China signed a contract for the supply through «Eastern» route 38 billion of cubic metres of Russian natural gas per year for the period of 30 years. To implement the project the construction of the pipeline «Power of Siberia» has started .The pipeline must not only become a channel for the delivery of Russian gas to China and other countries in the region, but also to link Russian gas transportation systems into one single network. The partnership between Moscow and Beijing, raised practically to a new, qualitatively higher level. In addition to large-scale energy and infrastructure projects, it is necessary that enterprises become subjects of the bilateral trade and economic cooperation. Such an approach would create standard market conditions, which will be the main premise and guarantee of of the interaction expansion.

Simultaneously with the market-based instruments, Moscow and Beijing are actively using the institutional mechanisms of the strategic partnership. So, currently three intergovernmental commissions are active at the level of deputy prime ministers and 20 branch subcommittees, which directly provide a balance between interests of market participants. The agreement between the Central Bank of Russia and the People’s Bank of China on the use of national currencies in international transactions enables Russian and Chinese companies to use as a currency both the ruble and yen, and the choice depends entirely on preferences of the parties involved. The modernization of the Russian economy suggests updating the industrial base and advanced development of transport infrastructure, a significant portion of this problem can be solved with the participation of China in the development of border areas of Russia.

In the future it is possible to create an energy bridge between China and Russia, which will implement the concept of North-East Asia Energy Ring. Russia is pursuing a policy to modernize its production infrastructure and the transition to an innovative development in order to create a domestic competitive products. Chinese centers of industrialization of high technologies are interested in cooperation in the field of research and development activities and of Russian high technologies entering the Chinese market. The scientific, technical and innovative cooperation between Russia and China conforms with the interests of strategic partnership and cooperation between our countries.

The innovative development of our countries requires longterm programs, large financial investments, the creation of high-tech zones (science parks) and incubators, establishment of common «technology platforms», encouraging joint investment in the development of high technology, to create the necessary innovation infrastructure.

When creating effective business processes of the industrial enterprises it is necessary to apply the systematic approach. It will allow to timely eliminate possible problems by their working out, to provide the control of process dynamics, to promote organization of qualitative work in the conditions of the limited information and to make decisions under quickly changing environment of functioning of the industrial enterprises. Constructed on the basis of the systematic approach with applying the theory of uncertain quantities the aggregated management model can influence the quality of regulating influence and results in decreasing the risks of negative consequences of the accepted decisions. Modern information systems and some software products make modeling more detailed and evident.

  A large-scale modernization of the Russian economy with access to the economic growth will become possible if the government would execute the active policy in the scientific and industrial spheres for the purpose of technological renovation of the economic landscape and transfer the economy on the path of innovative development. As an important condition for elimination the crisis events of the national economy and prevention their occurrence in the future the application of new approaches to management of the economy at macro and micro levels is considered.

The systematic control concept that allows to design the management trajectory, to determine the conjugation between economic policy and systematic management both by the state and private enterprise, is regarded as the most optimal for the organization of management of economic systems under conditions of instability, showing signs of poor and ineffective management.

The management takes the central place in controlling the mechanism of functioning of any organization. Top managers have the task to maintain the balance and interaction of forces available in the organization and to determin its activity. The implementation of new approaches to the management requires new management competencies, identification, analysis and harmonization of the systems; analysis of all elements of the system in space and time and in interaction with the environment; production management, marketing, innovation, and business processes.

This article presents a solution to the problem of formation of integrated management strategies for working capital and finding methods of control actions that enhance the value added produced.

The article considers the main indicator of the financial and economic situation of the enterprise, as well as two ratings – the first rating represents the geometric mean probability of compliance with restrictions set by the terms of the optimization of the main exponents of the problem, the other – the recommendations of the financial management. In case when among some probabilities used in calculating the estimates some will be equal, they can be grouped and considered approach can be modified by using weighting coefficients reflecting the different importance of separate groups of probabilities and different contribution of each of them in the final decision. To do this, the geometric mean of partial probabilities should be changed to the geometric weighted mean – the relative value added products.

These ratings are useful when compared with dynamics of the financial discipline of an enterprise, as well as in analysis of the activity of enterprises similar in terms of production volumes and assortment .Individual probability is determined by the Monte Carlo method using Oracle Crystal Ball software package.

The method to estimate the financial and economic situation of the enterprise is developed , including the proximity of the crisis forecast for the company based on the calculation of indicators of variability (stability) of the relative value-added products. The work is continued with the target to find strategies for management of complex enterprise balance, its optimization and determination of the appropriate management actions.

An important moment in the activities of any company is the improvement of the quality management system. One of the most commonly used now management tool is the self-assessment, which allows to analyze the activity and to identify problems in the development, to develop measures to overcome them and to trace the dynamics of improvements during repeated self-esteem. In Russia, the RF Government Prize in the field of quality.is used to perform the self-estimation. The model covers the opportunities and results of the organization activity. In presented article the Russian Federation Government Prize in quality model is applied for self-esteem of an industrial enterprise . The main indicators of the company for compliance with the award criteria are applied, they reveal the impact of each criterion, depending on the maximum possible score. Based on the petal chart showing the contribution of each model criteria the problem areas associated with both the business itself and the development of the industry are defined. The article describes the changing in volume of defective products in the past few years. In conclusion, measures to improve activities in the field of quality management are proposed.

It is incorrect to relate the performance to the results of intellectual activity. The performance is defined as the reproduction, the copying and not the creation of something new. It is impossible to relate the performance to the intellectual property in any sphere of the human activity: science, sports, art. To the creative activity of any citizen, not just artist refer: creation of work, discovery, development of a method or device, rationalization offer and so on, but not the employment of a strange result through making it public. The precedent of an artist’s performance protection stimulates to introduce the protection of performance of other kinds of human activity: the performance of workers, engineers, scientists, office workers, entrepreneurs and so on when collaboration in implementation of inventions or rationalization offers, taking into consideration that this activity requires substantial expenses. The existing institute of intellectual property (Citizens’ Codex of the Russian Federation, Part 4) lacks unfortunately mentioning rights adjoining to patent rights. The legislator, when protecting the show business, hat thus totally “forgotten” the innovative economy namely the protection of relative rights including the reward. I support the opinion that objects of relative right has to be expanded in order to protect the innovation economy.

The article describes the problems of information and consulting of AIC (agrarian – andindustry complex) formation and development system in a region attracting the existent the world practice. It is noted that the information and consulting support (ICS) presents currently the principal center of agrarian consulting and dissemination of information concerning AIC. Due to lacking of information and methodical materials the Russian Federation subjects are forced to create at their own expenses the separate information and consulting support structure, to develop recommendations for the national project implementation. The most important presumption of ICS effective function on any level is the involvement of modern information systems applying advanced computer technologies securing simple application, openness, use of the unified RF APC information space featuring the possibility to be integrated into the global Internet net. The strategic target of AIC ICS is the information and consulting support creating the conditions for effective production and improvement of social and economy life condition in the country. The study investigates the principal AIC ICS tasks which can be solved on the regional level, the form of the activity of regional ICS in AIC.

Cooperative associations present a rather efficient mechanism of problem solving, at the same time the retarded process of their creation bears risks for the participants. The reduced effectiveness or gap between reached and planned level of indicators is due to poorly developed mechanism for establishment and development of cooperative associations. The reliability and productivity of cooperative association are largely dependent on accurately calculated directions of development and interaction between the participants. Objectives: to present a comparative description between existing mechanisms of cooperation in Russia and abroad and the mechanism of cooperation “Road map” of cooperation, showing the possibility of the alternative approach. The article presents the approximate results of the calculation of the “Management part” of the “Road map” by means of economic-mathematical models, allowing to make preanalysis of the prospects of cooperative association. The results of the cooperative association’s analysis by means of the “Roadmap” are interesting both for participants and for external observers, such for example, as future investors. The analysis demonstrates: the stability of cooperation by identifying “safety cushions”; the possibility to cover additional costs through the “margin” from the growth of the conjugate productivity of cooperation, the possibility to create “reserve cooperation”. The analysis shows the sources of additional profit; it demonstrates the long-term functioning of cooperation; it helps to attract investors and other participants; it discloses the missing and overlapping participants; it provides the priorities for obtaining state support; it defines the maximum potential of cooperation.

The article deals with the mutual influence of economic and demographic factors of urban development in the Siberian Federal District (SFD) of the Russian Federation. The aim of the study is to evaluate the factors of mutual influence of demographic potential and economic development at the regional level. System analysis, statistical methods, structural, dynamic, correlation and regression analysis, as well as the methods of classifying and ranking were used as a research tool. The study disclosed that although the total number of cities in the SFD actually remained unchanged, the structure has changed, and the socio-economic development in cities A is uneven. On the basis of proposed set of indicators to assess the development of the cities, the potential economic, social and demographic trends, the dynamics of indicators of the major cities of SFD for the period 2002– 2013 years and their subsequent ranking were evaluated, making it possible to determine the growth points of the territory and also contrast enhancement of settlement against the advancing growth of the largest cities. The uniform «saturation» of cities on federal district territory and the contrasts of settlement with the advanced growth of the largest cities were revealed. It is noted that the share of the population living in towns will slightly increase. The necessity to consider the relation of this factor with the economic processes in the formulation of population policies by public authorities is outlined.

The transition from the alignment of regional development policy levels to the polarized politics of development leads to the task of forming a new system of strategic objectives of territorial development and mechanisms to achieve them. This agglomeration acting as «locomotives» of economic and social development for the surrounding areas can become centers for the modernization and development of the entire national economy. The article considers the role of urban centers in the formation of a federal state regional policy on the example of Canada. The paper analyzes the causes and consequences of the emergence of urban agglomerations, administrative and political structure of emerged subjects, considers entities organized on the basis of public / municipal-private partnerships, focusing on the implementation of cluster initiatives in the territory of agglomerations. On the example of metropolitan areas of Toronto and Montreal, features of formation of a control system and the development of urban centers in Canada are highlighted. The work reveals the positive and negative sides of the agglomeration municipalities, a comparative analysis of the characteristics of agglomerate in Russia and Canada is presented, approaches are proposed. The presented Canadian experience shows that in formation of urban agglomeration it is necessary to seek a compromise between integration and individualization.

As a result of the executed research it is established that the modern economic policy shall rely on the evidence-based mechanism of a sustainable development of the industry reflecting features of this stage of its development to which first of all it is necessary to refer territorial, industry, innovative and integration aspects. In work these features of implementation of the concept of a sustainable development of the Russian industry in modern conditions are considered. It is revealed that on their crossing modification of production organization, new to Russia, – the territorial innovative clusters (TIC) is created. TIC allow to successfully solve the problem of the highest priority for this area of the industry – «growth poles», thus ensuring the implementation of territorial and sectoral dimensions of sustainable development industry in Russia. Due to the presence of the network structure they allow much faster to develop and implement innovations. The Russian Federation started the process of creating and functioning of regional innovation clusters. It is through these «growth points» should be made a breakthrough in increasing the global competitiveness of the economy through its transition to a new technological base.