Design of the regions' economic development strategy

Contemporary Russian economy is undergoing the same trends of the economic modernization, which is taking place in developed countries. These are: the process of globalization, advanced development of the service industries, post- industrial society formation, intellectual component expansion in the results of any industry, informatization of the society, running out of traditional sources of social and economic growth. In such conditions the search for new ways and factors of the regional self-development is critical