Innovative development index of regions of the Central federal district of the Russian Federation

The relevance of this study is connected with the fact that Russia, having significant scientific and technological potential, has a number of issues due to the development of innovation in its regions. The purpose of the research is to estimate the index of innovative development in the regions of the Central Federal District of the Russian Federation. The authors analyzed the following main issues: 1) relevance of innovative development of regions in the modern world; 2) analysis of innovative development of the regions of the Central Federal District. The research used various methods as the main ones: analysis and synthesis were used to identify modern forms of innovation structures and emphasize their main characteristics; statistical methods were used to develop indicators characterizing innovative development in the regions of the Central Federal District; grouping methods were used to analyze the innovative development of regions; and cartographic methods were used to display visually the obtained groups of regions according to the index of innovative development. Statistical data were processed using Microsoft Excel and SPSS Statistics. For the analysis of innovative development, the authors offered a system of four groups of economic indicators of assessment: scientific personnel, provision of innovative development, productivity of innovative development, and costs of innovative activity. The data obtained as a result of research allowed for the drawing of a number of conclusions, including the following ones: 1) there is a sharp differentiation in the index of innovative development among the regions of the Central Federal District; 2) the undoubted leaders in the index of innovative development during the period of observation are Moscow and the Moscow region; the outsider is the Kostroma region. The results of research can be useful to regional and municipal authorities for the development of preventive measures for innovative development in regions and their municipalities.