Role of industrial parks and technoparks in regional socio-economic development in Russia

Abstract

The study examines the effects of industrial parks and technoparks at the regional level. Based on the financial and economic indicators of residents of industrial parks and technoparks, the geography of their activities at the level of the Russian Federation constituent entities is considered. To perform this study the author’s database on residents is used, created on the basis of information from the commercial database Orbis for the period 2010 – 2018, as well as the open data from the Federal Tax Service and statistics from the Rosstat. There is a strong concentration of the market for industrial parks and technology parks in several regions of Russia, including city of Moscow, Moscow and Kaluga regions and the Republic of Tatarstan. This fact can be explained with objective reasons, including the agglomeration effect, capacious sales and labor markets, as well as other indicators of investment attractiveness. Most industrial parks and technoparks currently do not have a significant influence on development of the regions in which they are created, which may be caused by such factors as the insufficiently competent investment-resident policy of management structures. According to the results of the study, a conclusion is made that the role of industrial parks and technoparks in social and economic development is significant only in a few regions with high competitive advantages, and in regions without such advantages parks do not impact on the development significantly.