RUSSIAN INDUSTRIAL PARKS AS NATURAL INSTITUTES OF DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

The numerous development institutions created in Russia in general economic terms are not yet sufficiently effective. Now, not only serious work is needed to improve the legal and regulatory framework of their functioning, but also to develop practices for influencing strategic areas of the economy with their help. The problem of establishing the interaction of development institutions with each other is also acute. Against the background of dissatisfaction with the activities of the vast majority of artificially engineered Russian development institutions, it is very favorably allocated industrial parks. Industrial parks are, in fact, the natural development institutions, because, firstly, private capital is actively involved in their creation, and, secondly, the initiative to create parks itself comes from “bottom”, i.e. comes from business, municipal and regional authorities. An analysis of various sources of information (data from the Geoinformation System of Industrial Parks of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, the Association of Industrial Parks of Russia and the industrial real estate business company TBI Group) shows that in Russian regions there is interest in the creation of industrial parks from business and local authorities. Based on theanalysis of available data, the paper concludes that skillful support for the rising industry of industrial parks can be very effective in socio-economic terms, since at a relatively low budget costs the real sector of Russian regions can receive a strong development stimulus.