Rodionova E.V. Reindustrial transformation of the economic complex of an old industrial region
Ekaterina Vladimirovna Rodionova
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Economics and Finance, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Volgograd Branch,
Gagarina St., 8, 400131 Volgograd, Russian Federation
Abstract.
The fragmentary regional policy that was led in Russia in the 1990s of the XXth century had as its negative consequence the concentration of the main investment resources of the state by old industrial city forming industries. This fact later predetermined a contradictive structure of the industrial demand in the economy that constrained the innovative development of such regions. This fact “anchored” their technological underdevelopment. The author showed different approaches to the classification of old industrial regions of Russia. Their endogenous unevenness is prved. The common and specific features and attributes of these territories determined by the spatial localization are studied. The article underlines that the regional authorities of old industrial regions have as an economic basis an obsolete industry without offering other working places for people employed in it. The government very often has to postulate and implement its own quasi public industrial policy. Among other old industrial regions the Rostov region (oblast) (11 rank in the AV RCI rating, 2016) and the Volgograd region (oblast) (23 rank in the AV RCI rating, 2016) are part of the “Southern growth point”. The examples of the a successful reindustrialization of enterprises of primary industries are found in the Volgograd region. The conclusion is made that for the solution of the problem of a depressive economic situation of a number of regions an integrated government program for an efficient replacement of the dominating old industries in the frame of the national structural and industrial policy is needed. The article emphasizes that the industry of old industrial regions of Russia hold the leading role in the process of the transfer to another technological level. The change of the regional specialization of such territories due to the creation of post industrial “medium zones” as “traps” of the innovative activity is possible as an eventual scenario of the renovation.
Key words: Southern federal district, Volgograd region (oblast), industrial complex, old industrial region, industries of specialization, depressive situation, innovation, reindustrialization, transformation, clusters, regional policy.
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