Sergey A. Fedotov

The article examines the problem of assessing the operating environment of industrial parks as a factor determining the effectiveness of their development. It demonstrates that existing approaches to the analysis of industrial parks are primarily focused on infrastructural and economic indicators, whereas the connectivity parameters of the environment that enable interaction between resident firms remain insufficiently explored. The purpose of the study is to develop a methodological toolkit for assessing the process connectivity of an industrial park’s environment. The paper proposes an integral index of process connectivity of the industrial park environment (IPSP), which allows for a quantitative assessment of the degree of integration of infrastructural, logistics, informational, and institutional elements of an industrial site. The index is tested on a sample of Russian industrial parks, and a typology of industrial sites is proposed according to the level of process connectivity of their environment. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the conceptualisation of the category of process connectivity of the industrial park environment and in the development of an integral tool for its quantitative assessment.