SCIENTIFIC, TECHNOLOGICAL AND INNOVATIVE CAPACITY OF THE REGION: COMPARISON OF CURRENT APPROACHES TO EVALUATION
The measures currently being implemented to support scientific, technical and innovative activities are directly or indirectly aimed at developing the scientific, technical and innovative potential of the regions. However, the existing approaches to assessing scientific, technical and innovative potential do not allow obtaining complete information for making further management decisions This article attempts to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the currently used approaches to assessing the scientific, technical and innovative potential of the regions. The subject of the analysis was both the approaches presented exclusively in the form of theoretical constructions, and those that are used in the practice of public administration, conducting economic activities and developing regional ratings based on scientific, technical and innovative potential. In order to see a broader context of the problem of analyzing the scientific, technical and innovative potential of regions, the approaches used in other countries with a federal structure and the approaches used by international organizations were considered.