FORMATION OF INNOVATIVE MECHANISM OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY DEVELOPMENT IN RUSSIA
This article has clarified and presented new approaches to defining the essence and content of the concept "industrial policy". There have been given the names of various authors who are and were directly involved in the study of different aspects of industrial policy not only in Russia but also abroad. The author of the present paper has singled out the main goals of the state’s industrial policy, listed the major tools of this policy implementation. There has been considered in detail the process of industrial policy implementation at different levels of state authority, as well as the models of industrial policy not only in Russia but also in the EU countries; there has been formulated an innovative mechanism of industrial policy development; there has been substantiated the system of investments into the development of industrial production; there has been developed the methodology for estimation of industrial policy development in Russia; there has been assessed industrial policy development and its elements in Russia. The author of the article has also considered the clusters from the perspective of industrial policy, and identified possible differences between clusters and other territorial entities; it has been concluded that it is possible to create foundation for clusters in specific industrial areas. For the purposes of industrial policy implementation the author has made an analysis and identified the prospects of industrial production development in Russia: there have been considered such indicators as: GDP (taking into account PPP) in billion dollars for 2015, Russia's GDP in the context of current prices, investment in fixed assets, investment structure in non-financial assets domestic expenditures on research and development, the main indicators of innovative activities; with the help of diagrams there was presented the sectoral structure of Russia’s industry in 2015; there has been given the assessement of analysts conserning the potential of resource-extraction industries as compared to the manufacturing and processing sectors; the author has found out that over the past few years, the industrial policy of Russia has faced the challenge of introducing the advanced technologies in the industrial companies that are able to compete with foreign enterprises.