Industrial cores of the economic framework for innovative development of southern Russian regions

The imperatives of the spatial development of industry within regions of the South of Russia which have critical demand for innovations formed under the influence of external and internal factors, make necessary the search for new mechanisms that would create regional frameworks for innovation. Thus, taking into account the priority of the industrial sector in the innovative development of the region, the need to identify the borders of the frame of balanced innovation in this area confirms the relevance of the study. This article aims to discover the state and efficiency of using innovative potential of commercial actors that characterize the industrial landscape of the regions of the South of Russia as well as those that form frame matrices. The theoretical and methodological basis of this research is formed on the joint use of the system-synergetic, resource-efficient, process-targeted and endogenous approaches, as well as the combination of theories of industrial development, growth poles, balance and economic framework. In contrast to existing studies, the issue of making the industrial sector of the region innovative is analyzed from the point of view of the formation of an economic framework, the cores of which i.e. the nodes of business activity are the industrial drivers of the central territories, functioning in the cooperation with small and medium-sized innovatively active enterprises of the periphery. In order to achieve a balanced support of the framework for industrial innovation, the implementation of interregional projects, focusing on the creation of innovative clusters, is suggested. The structure of such clusters consists of industrial enterprises, which operate (or are ready for such a work) according to the import substitution model. The research concludes that the forms and scales of influence on the elements of measures in the economic framework that support innovative transformations in industry in certain regions of Southern Russia are determined not only by the state of the resource potential, but also by the specificity of certain territorial determinants, due to which these tasks should be directly connected to the goals of the social and economic development of the area under analysis.