Regional Industrial Policy of the Russian Federation: Import Substitution and Export Support
The research is aimed on theory and methodology development in the field of regional industrial policy of import substitution and export support. The aim is gained with the following research methods: analysis of the world economic literature and the best foreign practices of regional industrial policy strategic planning; comparative and historical analysis of the RF regions legislation; correlation analysis of the results of the RF regions’ import substitution and export support policy implementation; comparison of the objectives and results of Russian regions’ industrial policy. As a result of the research models and types of regional industrial policy of import substitution and (or) export support are classified according to its’ succession (separate, successive, parallel); as well as types of export oriented import substitution policy model are developed, and factors of such a model effective implementation are systemized. Furthermore, method for identifying a model and a type of regional industrial policy is proposed and approved on the example or the RF regions. The conclusion is made that regional industrial policy strategic planning in Russia is not efficient and has to be optimized.