No 4 (2011)

The authors analyze the dynamics of positions of the Russian Federation in the world industry. For the last thirty years the share of the Russian Federation in production of separate industries has been decreased. It shows that Russian positions are weakening in the world economy. Our country has kept high positions only in fuel and energy industries: in natural gas production. As the industry structure of the Russian Federation has been changed there has been the increase in regional disproportions in manufacturing allocation. The increase in disproportions is caused in particular by the growth of concentration of industrial production because of the regional features of resources allocation (especially oil and gas): 5 subjects of the Russian Federation account to more than 2/3 of extracting production. Fixed tendencies in development of the industry of the Russian Federation have negatively reflected social and economic conditions of the country and, finally, they undermine national safety. The situation has been especially aggravated under financial and economic crisis of 2007-2010 when the rates of development of the industry of the Russian Federation slowed down and became even negative. Considering that industrial development of any country defines its positions in the world economy and its national safety, now it is necessary to change the model of Russian participation in the globalized world.

Interregional disparities in the level of socio-economic development of Russia in 1995-2009 remain high. The authors identified the main tendencies of dynamics during the periods of economic growth and economic crisis: the disparities were growing till 2005, and after there was a tendency to reduce. These trends have been identified on the basis of an analysis of regional coefficient of asymmetry on key per-capita indicators (GDP, investment in fixed capital, etc.), indicators of spatial concentration and deviations from the average in Russia (volume of GDP, per capita GDP and investments) on the level of federal districts and regions. The main reasons of thes dynamics were economic crisis, the governmental anti-crisis measures and measures of social support. Comparison of level of interregional disproportions in Russia and abroad resulted that differentiation of levels of socio-economic development at the federal level is comparable to the differences in EU-countries, but at the level of regions - with countries of the world.

The article deals with the results of the Lisbon strategy for innovative economy development in the EU and new EU's social and economic development program called Europe 2020, featuring an ambitious strategy for the EU's development in the forthcoming decade. It also analyses experience and the current achieved innovative development level in the EU countries, divided in clusters according to the IUS methodology. The paper reveals the leadership of several EU countries in innovation activities, including in R&D expenditures scale, the number of patent requirements, high-tech export volumes, tertiary education enrollment and so on, as well as some trends in different clusters' countries position in ratings on the mentioned factors.

The article is devoted to the study of the state and level of innovation potential development of the Siberian Federal District in the light of twelve regions of Western and Eastern Siberia. The clusters of regions according to the types of economic and innovation activities are distinguished. The rating of each region is determined on the basis of clustering. The author comes to the conclusion that innovation activity is to be considered as a significant factor of investment attractiveness of the region. The possibility of using algorithms of regions division into clusters for the purpose of informative description of differences between them and elaboration of the most possible significant management decisions on this basis are substantiated. The conclusions are of practical importance for the Russian regions' economic development according to the innovation type.

The article depicts the peculiarities of organizational mechanism that provides management of the development of public-private partnership in Great Britain, Hungary, Australia and other Western countries.

Existing management systems of commercial banks including application experience of Japanese management model in our country are analyzed in the article. It is noticed that Japanese management methods are effective because they provide refusing of narrow employee specialization, promote universal development of the workers. The author analyzed a practical application of this model in the Russian commercial bank «Moscomprivatbank» which has been developed in construction business concept kaizen. The positive results of its introduction directed to management efficiency increase are described, such as employees' competence index increase during annual testing of a professional standard.

In the article research of considering cross-cultural peculiarities in forming organizational innovation strategy is held. Theoretical model of company's functioning is suggested. Analysis of necessity to consider cross-cultural aspect in strategic management theories is realized on base of its development and practice. Estimation of current position and cross-cultural problems in sphere of innovations and high-tech technologies abroad is performed. In the end the methodology of attracting foreign specialists in nanotechnology sphere, elaborated by the author, is presented. Its key significance is a stage of specialist's adaptation on his new working place.