INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF A REGION           

Kildyushkina Irina Gennadyevna, Candidate of historical sciences, associate professor, leading researcher, department of contemporary regional development, Research Institute of Humanities of the Mordovia Republic Government, gunii@mail.ru 

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Implemented as multilevel strategies, the specific-program method of economy regulation requires an exact ranking of purposes and tasks of management as well as differentiation of the corresponding methods and tools. The author emphasizes the most important criteria, which determine the success of regional development strategies, starting from the structure and basic components of the strategic plan for development and key elements of the strategic planning system and concluding with development and realization of multilevel strategies, including the social- technological approach. 

innovations, the specific-program method, multilevel strategies, strategic planning.