Informatization as an Innovative Factor of Russia’s Regional Development

The article is concerned with informatization as an economic category. Some new economic categories such as information supply, information reserve, that together with information resources form an information cycle, are introduced. A conceptual model of regional informatization system, which consists of 3 main sub-systems: information needs, information potential and infrastructure, is proposed. An importance of information technologies as an innovation factor for sustainable regional economic development is substantiated.

region, informatization, sustainable development, innovation factor, information needs, economic system, information resources, information supply, information reserve