Voronov, Aleksander Sergeyevich

The relevance of this study is confirmed by the experience of advanced economies, which have moved from the traditional state industrial policy to the application of the cluster approach to the management of spatial development in order to overcome modern economic challenges and constraints. The aim of the study is to analyze theoretical content and implementation experience of the cluster approach. For this purpose, the authors consider various approaches to the concepts of cluster and cluster policy used in modern Russian economic science; the world and domestic experience of the cluster approach application in the practice of spatial development management is analyzed. The authors propose their approach to the concepts of a cluster of «nuclear» type, a specialized distributed cluster and a «neighbor» cluster, including a description of their role in the spatial development of territories.

In the modern economy, human capital is the main strategic resource for development, which has a direct impact on economic growth and social welfare. In the Strategy of Socio-Economic Development of the Russian Federation for the Period Up to 2030, human capital is given priority, and therefore there is a need to develop and supplement existing methods of its assessment and management. The need to develop new methods is also connected with the transition of the economy to the new technological and world economic paradigms and the corresponding change in the structure and value of human capital. 

Presented article is the development of a study on the measurement of human capital in terms of structural changes in the economy; its aim is to develop a model of human capital formation, assessment and management through inclusion in strategic plans of socio-economic development in the transition to an integrated world economy and the sixth technological paradigm.

The tasks of the study are to consider the problems and prospects for the Russian human capital development at the stage of the new technological and world economic paradigms formation; to create a matrix of parameters for assessing human capital; to form a socio-economic model for the formation and assessment of national human capital. 

The subject of the research is economic relations arising in the process of formation and use of human capital at the present stage of economic development. The main results of the research are the development of a conceptual model for multi-level and multi-component assessment of national human capital. The scope of the results obtained is determined by the possibility of including key parameters of human capital in strategic plans for socio-economic development and improving the competitiveness of the national economy.

The main strategic resource of the current development is human capital which accumulates all the intellectual, physiological labor and social potential of people, the possibility of using it to ensure a sustainable trend in the economic system development in conditions of constant turbulence, increasing uncertainty, and increasing technological progress.

The goal of the study is to assess the state of human capital at the regional level, to identify trends and factors of its formation with subsequent implementation in the regional development strategy at the stage of transition to the sixth technological order. To achieve the goal of the study, a number of tasks are formulated in the work: to determine the trends in the use of human capital as a factor in the innovative development of the economy, to assess the structural elements that form the basis of human capital, to determine the reflection of the processes of human capital formation in strategic and innovative plans for the development of territories.

The subject of the study is the economic relations arising in the process of formation and use of human capital in the development of regional economic systems at the stage of formation of the sixth technological order.

The main results of the study are to assess the state of human capital formed and used at the regional level in the context of its main components, to determine the main reasons for the high differentiation of the level of its formation in the conditions of the multistructural nature of the Russian economy. The scope of the results obtained is determined by the possibilities of forming strategic programs for regional development, taking into account human potential and the need to equalize the socio-economic situation of the territories.

The article discusses a new form of economic activity, which is defi ned as the gig economy, resulting from the transformation of the employment sector under the infl uence of digital technologies, determines its place and role in stimulating economic growth, shows its opportunities and problems, and identifies ways to overcome them. Th e authors explore the socio-economic paradoxes and problems of the modern period of the gig economy and suggest ways to promote high-quality and sustainable development of the gig economy.