Development of the region's innovative sector as the condition for formation of information economics in the economic space of the Russian Federation

The article analyzes the region's innovative sector in terms of basic resources that create conditions for innovative business activities; special attention is paid to complete nature of material, human and organizational resources, information sphere of entrepreneurship. The necessity of the conjoint analysis of resources and results at the stage of the region's innovative development and the formation of the information economy is substantiated, which ensures the identification of constraints, deviations in the growth rates, problem areas hampering the acceleration of the regional economy. The authors propose a methodology for analyzing the innovative sector in the region that allows assessing the status and dynamics of the region's resource supply, comparing regions of the Russian Federation with identical industrial specialization, determining prospective and unused reserves, revealing comparative economic advantages and the impact that the results of innovative sector's development have on the economy of the constituents of the Russian Federation. The use of indicators of dynamics, structure, and the scale in “resources-results” coordinates makes it possible to comprehensively present the development of innovative processes and innovative infrastructure of the region at the stage of transition to the digital economy. The proposed methodical approaches, (tested on the example of the Chelyabinsk region) create an information and analytical basis for rapid adaptation of regional economic policy to a new economic reality. Methodical provisions and theoretical conclusions allow the state authorities of the region to make informed decisions in the process of managing the development of the region's innovative sector.