Methodical Approaches to the Assessment of Innovation Potential of Regions in the Context of the Formation of Innovation-Integrated Structures

The purpose of this research is to carry out a comparative analysis of methodological approaches to assessing the innovation potential of regions and to substantiate the feasibility of their application in conditions of clusterization of the economy. In the article the advantages of formation and development of innovation-integrated structures in the context of growth of efficiency and innovation orientation of the national economy are explored. The analysis of the level of the Global Innovation Index of Ukraine in the context of international comparisons and indicators of innovation activity by the regions of the state was conducted. The factors of formation of innovation-integrated structures were characterized: legislative-normative, research, personnel, financial, material-resource, technological, infrastructural and informational-communicative. It was highlighted the necessity of distinguishing approaches to the evaluation, firstly, the prerequisites for the formation of innovation-integrated structures, in particular, the innovation potential of territories, and secondly, the results of the activities of such structures. The main methods of estimating the innovative potential of the regions (tabular and graphic methods, methods of comparison, expert methods, methods of sociological research, rating methods, methods of integral estimation, methods of modeling and forecasting) were defined. Since different regions of Ukraine have sufficiently differentiated innovative potential, it was marked a feasibility of using an integrated methodology for evaluation the readiness of regions to form innovative-integrated structures, in line with a number of quantitative and qualitative criteria, which would justify the feasibility of creating certain structures for territories. Also, the stages of the innovation potential of territories evaluation were substantiated.