DIVERSIFICATION OF RESOURCE REGIONS TO THE INNOVATIVE WAY OF DEVELOPMENT (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE SIBERIAN FEDERAL DISTRICT)
The Russian Federation is a federal state with 85 regions, so the country's economic stability directly depends on their development. Due to the diversification of the economy, it is necessary to develop a strategy for the reorientation of a number of regions from the resource sphere of activity to a number of new industries. In addition, at present many countries are introducing innovative technologies into production, and optimizing existing technologies. The author carried out clustering of regions by sectors of the economy depending on the leading branches of economic activity. An attempt was made to identify the main factors and assess the degree of their influence on the innovative development of the regions. The obtained model allowed to reveal the deviation of the actual results from the forecasted ones in terms of the volume of output of innovative goods and services by the example of the Siberian Federal District. That in the future will allow analyzing the causes of deviations, revealing negative factors and eliminating them. The state policy with respect to raw material regions, adjusted at a qualitative level, will allow them to move on to innovative development in the future without losing the achieved results of the gross regional product. State regulation of resource regions also consists in reducing the dependence of regions on their raw materials base, especially this problem concerns a number of regions that have a mono-sectoral structure. It should be remembered that in regions with a resource orientation there is also a problem of an ecological and demographic nature.