EVALUATION OF INDUSTRIAL POTENTIAL OF THE REGIONS IN THE CENTRAL FEDERAL DISTRICT
An assessment of the industrial potential of the regions is an important stage in the complex tasks of creating conditions for the growth and development of industry, taking into account their regional specifics. This allows managing the characteristics of the potential, identifying problems that prevent the adequate contribution of industry to ensure strategic competitiveness of the regions and the country's economy as a whole. The purpose of the study is a comparative assessment of the industrial potential of the regions of the Central Federal District and the determination of the influence of individual factors on the change in its level. The article demonstrates that regions with similar starting conditions for development currently differ greatly in terms of the level of development of industrial potential, depending on how actively the processes of formation of market institutions take place in them, new forms of territorial organization of production are activated, and the innovative orientation of production is strengthened. An increase in the number of regions with an average level of industrial capacity development has been revealed, while the situation in the lagging regions is deteriorating, which increases the heterogeneity in the development of the industrial potential of the Central Federal District, restrains interregional cooperation ties and reduces the opportunities for the development of the district.