Directions of economic security of innovative development of the eastern regions of Russia

The relevance of this study is due to the fact that ensuring the economic security of effective innovative development, a task set for each region of the Russian Federation, is of particular importance in modern conditions. On the one hand, this is due to the requirements of the global market, in which innovation is a recognized tool for increasing competitiveness and solving socio-economic problems of society. On the other hand, this is necessary in connection with the increasing imbalances in the key indicators of the country’s regional innovative development, which requires taking measures to maintain the sustainable development of highly innovative territories and intensify those lagging behind, taking into account the sectoral and other specifics of their functioning. This study includes an analysis of the capabilities of the eastern regions of Russia in ensuring effective innovative development. The author presents the key directions for improving the mechanism of economic security when managing the innovation space of Russian regions, taking into account the differentiation of the regional economic space in the direction of establishing a high-quality and sustainable system of interaction between objects and subjects of the innovation space based on the identified priorities. The practical significance lies in determining the features of the organizational scheme for managing the economic security of innovative development of regions; the drivers of innovative development in the conditions of the new reality are identified.