Methodology for assessing the development of regional production infrastructure (on the example of the Republic of Crimea)

Abstract

Purpose: is to present the author's methodology for assessing the regional production infrastructure, formed on the example of the Republic of Crimea, which allows identifying the drivers of its development to ensure the growth of the region's economy.Methods: the methodological basis of the study consists of: the method of factor analysis – to determine the driving factors of the justification of the drivers of economic growth; the method of regression analysis – to monitor the regional infrastructure of the Crimea; the method of system analysis – to study the spatial distribution of its regional infrastructure; correlation analysis and research analysis of spatial data – to carry out an expert assessment of the temporal and spatial characteristics of the regional production infrastructure of the region.Results: the article substantiates the dependence of the economic growth of the regional economy on various spatial and temporal factors of the regional production infrastructure. The authors propose a methodology for measuring the regional production infrastructure in the Crimea, including the selection and calculation of the parameters of its components, checking the closeness of the connection of these components, building a model for evaluating the effectiveness of regional production infrastructure, evaluating and analyzing integral indices of its level of development. As a result of the study, the main drivers of economic growth in the region were selected, namely, institutional and resource factors that will ensure the rational functioning of the economic mechanism in the Republic of Crimea, taking into account the work of economic entities in the context of digitalization.Conclusions and Relevance: the presented research allowed to substantiate the modern spatial structure of the development of regional infrastructure, the main characteristic of which is the uneven pace of development in the municipal territorial formations of the Republic of Crimea. Ranking of the identified driving forces of economic growth is valuable information in the implementation of infrastructure projects.