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The paper analyzes the role of small innovative business in the sustainable development of Russia's oil and gas industry and resource regions. The authors show that, in modern conditions, an urgent task is a fundamental change in the institutional and organizational structure of the hydrocarbons extraction and processing industries of Russia. Development of small deposits by small innovative oil and gas companies is more economically efficient. The paper shows that the development of small innovative business in t...

The paper proves the conditions for the transition to a new paradigm for the development of the Russian oil and gas complex. At present time, the structure of the resources base of oil and gas in Russia is fundamentally changing. This creates important conditions for the directions of innovative development. In the 21st century, the main new objects for exploration and production of oil and gas fields are: shelf in the Arctic Ocean; new undeveloped areas (Eastern Siberia and the Far East), unconventional sources o...

Considering the European experience, the aim of this paper is ecologic, economic and organizational prospects for the creation of innovative technological clusters of he production, processing, transportation of fossil energy resources, primarily gas condensate in Russia. Improving the methodology of natural resources management, the paper proposed organizational structure of the resource cluster, consisting of three main zones: the center of the cluster (specialized production), internal environment (services, as...

The EU has set out its vision for Europe's social market economy in the Europe 2020 strategy, which aims at confronting our structural weaknesses through progress in smart specialization. In line with the Guide to Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialization, this paper aims to identify key directions of sustainable innovative development of Russian resource regions and determine their readiness for smart specialization. Relying on clustering methodological approaches, this study has revealed: 1) ec...