Innovations as a driver of a secure economic growth at macro- and mesolevels of the national economic system

Today the innovation can be seen as a major support to enhancing the competitiveness of the economy, GDP growth, and as a consequence and as a contribution to the economic security of the country. With the decline of traditional growth factors under the influence of a new wave of technological changes the role of a single innovative cycle including the basic and applied research, investments in innovation, the susceptibility of the economy to the technical and technological innovation, bolstering the high-tech industries is strengthened. The article provides the analysis of the main challenges and threats to the economic security of the state, reveals the basic directions and tasks of the state policy in the sphere of ensuring the economic security in the innovative development including the South of Russia. It is stressed that the intensification of investment processes is crucial for increasing the share of innovative products and the formation of an innovative model of the economy of the region and at the same time the development of the program of the innovative development requires a clear positioning of the region according to the existing potential for the innovation that may also be used in the selection of events at the district level within the program...