The article shows the functions of the knowledge economy, a constructive analysis of the existing proposed macroeconomic methodological approach to understanding the national innovation area. The concept and content of national innovative area, its role and place in the national innovation system, national economic area are revealed. The algorithm of national innovative area formation as a part of new knowledge and bringing it to the innovation and diffusion into the real sector of the national economy, which comprisesof five units: science, registration and accounting, expertise, innovative sector of the national economy,national economic traditional area is suggested.

The article considers the methods of organizing, planning and managing the production which were innovative in different periods of Soviet economic management system. Practically all of them are considered to be the basis for modern innovative management methods.Reduced expenditures method appeared in the USSR in the industrialization period for the large-scale projects’ efficiency assessment. It’s applied even nowadays while comparing different capital investmentswhich have equal results.The organization of project-constructive works and productions (as a method of minimizing the new manufactures’ introduction terms) was used in pre-war years and then in 1960s in space industry.A system of defectless production manufacture (1955) has become the basis for different systems of managing the production quality which are considered to be the prototypes of today KPI, and the communist labour movement (1958) brought up the labour person and encouraged him to be aware of morale stimuli. The functional and price analysis, as a method of reducing the costs, was practically implemented in 1970s.Then in the late 1970s and during the early 1980s the experiments on the implementation the system of planning and accounting the national economic effect in production capacity dynamics under the influence of scientific and technical progress, including the concept of indicators’ balanced system were held.The collective forms of labour organization and incentive in large subdivisions were firstly applied as early as 1930s in the industrialization period and were developed during the early 1990s. Today it’s mainly reflectedin KPI.Special-purpose programme of planning in the branches of industry (1980s) is actually used today in managing public and municipal finances.Acting since the second half of the 1980s the different models of self-accounting have been reflected incollective forms of real-estate and leasing relationships.The article describes the main content of methods, analyses the causes of their non-spreading in order to study the possibilities of their application under the modern conditions.

The article considers general methodology and architecture of hybrid system models for prediction of economic indicators and its implementation in the form of an integrated information system on the example of research and innovation indicators of the Russian economy. The scheme of the distributedinformation-analytical system is demonstrated. The general verification process algorithm of the modelprediction unit is presented, which contributes significantly to the credibility of the forecast results. The object of the study is a unified system of hybrid models, combining econometric and neural network modelsinto a single system of hybrid economic models. The structure of the hybrid forecasting system consists of two subsystems: the subsystem of the distributed econometric forecast models and subsystem of the distributed neural network prediction models. The objective reasons, under which the level best of regression modelsis reached, are identified. The subsystem architecture of the distributed neural network models developedin the programming language Python with the use of the web framework Django is described. The stages of indicators forecasting in a hybrid model are shown. The hybrid models functional structure based on the use of software modules are considered. The use of such a system allows not only to improve the accuracy and quality of the forecasts, but also to apply them in the control loop foreaching the targets.

In today’s economy, characterized by globalization, frequent crisis phenomenon, acceleration of scientific-technical progress innovative activity takes on special significance. The basis for innovative activity is intellectual potential which is a set of intellectual resources and attained intellectual results, including innovation. The article presents the structure of intellectual potential of a region, reveals the main elements of the methodology for its evaluation. A model of intellectual potential appraisal based on statistical approach is offered. The quality of intellectual potential of a region is understood as the combination of its two characteristics, i. e. the level of development and sustainability of functioning according to the indicators aggregate in the system of regions, the indicators being specified by the matrix. It is suggested that the entropy of particular indicators should be taken into account when calculating summary rating in order to increase ranking reliability.The tool of control over the region’s intellectual potential quality in innovation is shown, the former comprising the following tools of diagnostics and monitoring: 1) system of indicators of intellectual potential characterizing its state in the areas that are crucial for effective innovation, i. e. innovation and entrepreneurship, research and cultural-educational ones; 2) procedure of the intellectual potential quality estimation, based on determination of integral rankings, carried out according to the level of development and stability of the indicator values of a particular region within the system of other regions, and taking into account indicators entropy; 3) factor analysis algorithm of the intellectual potential dynamics on the basis of the index method.The paper sets the guidelines for of use of the obtained results in the interests of the region’s innovation development and anticipated effects from their practical implementation: financial, budgetary, administrative, general economic effects.The conclusion is made that methodology for appraisal of intellectual potential and the tool of control over its quality can be effectively applied in order to stir up innovation in the region.

Today entrepreneurship has extended farther than start-ups and it already covers different types of entities at almost all stages of their life cycle. Entrepreneurial management is targeted at seeking for and implementing new business opportunities to create the new value. Companies that operate under tough competition have increasingly been acquiring entrepreneurial character.The paper discusses the approach developed by Innovative Business and Entrepreneurship Laboratory at the Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, in which the competencies of the entrepreneurial management are used to manage the completely uncertain initial stage in the process of creating an innovative product. The step is crucial for creating a marketable innovative product. It is here where the concept and the main engineering requirements for future products are built. The main complexity for creators lies in the fact that in case of a really new (innovative) product marketing tools practically do not work at this stage of the product development. The fact is that consumers live in today’s paradigm and, for the most part, are not able to dip beyond the horizon of existing products.The paper proposes an iterative model for the creation of an innovative product at the initial stage, which consists of three phases: identification of opportunities generating and testing product ideas rapid creating and testing the least possible viable product - a product with a minimal permissible set of features sufficient for users to pay for. Based on the developed practice, the paper formulates the set of essential managerial actions to efficiently manage the process of creating an innovative product at theinitial stage. Competencies (knowledge, skills and capabilities) play a key role in consumers’ developmentin entrepreneurial management at early stages, providing them with an essential innovative product and a profitable/scalable business model. The paper presents critical competencies which are the most difficultto develop in the entrepreneurial management, the latter being concentrated in the two clusters: those of thought and personality.

All the processes in the humane community are managed without exception. The society like all other complex systems is subdivided into managing and managed sub-systems. Currently the working out of managerial decisions is exercised with the account of many factors, but the most important process,e. the transformation of “the territory into a map” is located beyond the borders of managers’ awareness. The methodology of cybernetic epistemology (complexity theory) has allowed the author to formulate the substantial explanatory paradigm of this managerial activity’s ignored factor.

Article retracted.   The actual problem of state and municipal management in our country at the modern stage is considered to be the development of small and medium entrepreneurship on the base of analysisand defining the reserves of creation the new entrepreneurial structures in each region. The goal of theresearch, which results are presented in the paper, is the analysis of the localization level in the subjects of the country, the spreading of small and medium enterprises and individual entrepreneurs, specialized on various types of economic activity in the service sphere. In the process of research the following taskswere solved: to define coefficients of industrial localization in every subject of the country; to identify theregularities, to characterize the distribution of entrepreneurial structures; to make the comparative analysis of achieved localization level regarding the eight types of economic activity.The researches were based on the statistical information about quantity of employees work in small and medium entrepreneurship of each country subject. The original data were used as the results of continuous statistical observation of entrepreneurial structures work, made by State Statistics Federal Service. The analysis of achieved level of the regions’ industrial localization was made on the base of mathematical modeling.The basic results of research are: to identify characteristics of industrial localization entrepreneurship in the country subjects; to define, that the most high level of localization can be achieved by the entrepreneurial structures, making wholesale and retail trade; to propose every industry making formation of three subjects groups in the country dependent on the subjects’ level; to prove that using the functionof normal distribution density it is possible to describe the distribution of values coefficients of enterprisesand entrepreneurs localization in such types of activity, as construction, wholesale and retail trade, hotels and restaurants, transport and communication, operations with real estate and rental, health care, and also other communities, social and personal services. Further researches are connected with the analysis of entrepreneurship industrial localization in the municipal areas.

The article describes the concept of improving the management of the state cadastre valuation of real estate with the purpose of taxation. The main point of the concept is to replace the present inefficient mechanism of cadastral valuation with the effective continuously functioning system of state cadastral valuation of real estate. The article shows the current negative state in the governmental cadastral valuation management lying in “patchwork”-type character of real estate valuation, lack of coordination of various government agencies in the process, as well as of an indivisible state agency responsible for the quality of the cadastral valuation in the country. This results in an untrue property cadastral value, which is contested juridically and extrajuridically by many taxpayers. The outcome of contesting real estate cadastral value is loss of stability of regional and local budgets and social tension aggravation in the regions.The article formulates a new concept of management of governmental real estate cadastral valuation, based on the implementation of general and specific functions of the governmental cadastral valuation by the Federal agency of state registration, cadastre and cartography (Rosreestr) jointly with the independent assessors. General functions of the governmental real estate cadastral valuation are distributed in the article between individual subdivisions of the Rosreestr; the scheme of system’s functioning has been given.The proposed system of governmental real estate cadastral valuation based on the current organizational structure of Federal registration service management, the subdivision which together with the independent assessors can effectively implement general and specific functions of cadastral valuation and ensure the quality of the property cadastral valuation. Thereby the billows of legal cases contesting the cadastral value will significantly reduce and social tension in the regions, caused by errors in assessing and contesting property cadastral value will decrease.

In the unstable, rapidly changing globalized world of today the role of megacities in the global economy has become predominant. In view of this the purpose of the study is to identify the preconditions of the successful development of megacities. To achieve the goal the following tasks have been solved: designation of the key characteristics of megacities, singling out the key factors of their development, development of the guidelines of their competitiveness strengthening.Theoretical and methodological basis of the study are the provisions and conclusions of domestic and foreign scientists’ research into the development of cities. International statistics as well as the materials of the Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation have been used. Information analysis and synthesis technique, as well as method of expert evaluations have been applied in the research.The preconditions of megacities’ successful development include diversification of their economies, deployment of innovation centers, carrying out research and development and experimental-design works, the formation of research institutions to develop new technologies, organization of international events, maintaining the transparency of national borders by national governments for talented professionals from other countries, the development of internal and external communications, management of migration and provision of citizens with affordable housing. The result of the selection of the key preconditions for megacities’ successful development is working out the guidelines for their development and for strengthening their competitiveness. Thus, to improve the image of Russia and Moscow there is a need to inform foreign business communities about the advantages of our country and its capital as business venues for theconstructive business dialogue having effective high-tech financial infrastructure, to provide for Moscow’sparticipation in the Forum of world financial centers, to organize one of these forums directly in Moscow.The results and conclusions of the article can be used in further research on the megacities’ development and strengthening their competitiveness.

Resource balancing at a company is seen as a static stage in the balance acquisition process between the development stage and the stabilization stage. The static balance is used when the goal is to balance the company operations. It is a particular problem compared to the goal of achieving a dynamic balance by bringing key company performance indicators to golden benchmarks.The authors suggest that a method be used that enables practical implementation of the balanced scorecard (BS) theory via answering the following questions: what do we mean by a balance in the BS system? what should be balanced in the BS? in what way do we balance a company if a company loses its balance?The described methodology is based upon the principle of interdisciplinary research seen as an integration of two or more research areas or fields.The authors suggest that a mathematical model be used to achieve resource balance at a company. The model suggested for use is based upon the inverse calculation of planned monthly performance indicators.

From the beginning of new millennium, researchers increase their interest to the question of architectural modeling of economic processes and systems in scientific and business area. Despite the factthat this trend is still quite young, now it is clear that key advantage, making it so popular, is, primarily, acombination of traditional IT-basement, describing in detail company`s activities, and management approach aimed at finding “narrow” places, optimization and improvement of internal efficiency. Mainly, the success of the organization determines the alloy of clearly defined mission and strategy, properly formulated goalsand comprehensible objectives to achieve them. Moreover, the strategic management of any business entity implies a relationship between the main system components, their constant movement and improvement, that`s rather convenient to implement and control in future in terms of architectural concepts.This article analyzes the potential of using an architectural approach to financial and credit institutions.The work hasan interdisciplinary nature combining both system analysis methods and modeling techniques as well as tools and definitions of management sciences. It includes a wide set of recommendations and consolidates existing practical experience. The special focus is given to the problem of structural filling by the key components for the complexbusiness model of the credit institution and, moreover, to establishing links between their elements. By using domain approach it`s possible to present complex architectural construction in simple and evident way. The author gives a common description of the rules of proper implementation for the transformation of the initial state of the system to its new state called “should be”, focusing on the modeling features in banking area. In conclusion, it is offered aflowchart of the development and subsequent application of the chosen architectural model in practice, the need touse measurable indicators to estimate the maturity level of the organization is emphasized and the conclusion about the weak study of the subject and about the importance of further in-depth research is made.