CONTENTS

Volume 12, 2002

 

Investment CLIMATE

Andrei BLINOV, Inna ORLOVA. Management of the region investment attraction

Objective assessment of available resources is an element of developing the regional business investment infrastructure. A business card of the territory presents an efficient form of the business situation analysis in a particular region. Its major objective is the analysis of a resource base showing the means, stocks, opportunities for the profitable economic activities.

Vladimir SAVIN. Discussion on the future of product share agreements

The sharp discussion on the prospects of product share agreements in Russia took place in the State Duma in the late October 2002. The legislators, top statesmen, and businessmen participated in the discussion.

Yana DERYABINA. Law support of investment business in Sverdlovsk region and the city of Ekaterinburg: the analysis and prospects

The paper marks out the investment legislation problems common for all federation entities, considers investment laws favorable for investment businesses, analyses mechanisms stimulating and regulating investments accordant with the existing region laws. It points out the lines of optimization of the Sverdlovsk region investment legislation.

 

Investment MARKET

Vladimir BEZRUKOV, Vladimir NOVOSELSKY. Assessment of investment business in the federal districts in 2002

An applied tool of the economic situation study are questionnaires which become more and more popular as a method of studying economic processes. There are summed up the results of questionnaires made in 2002 about the situation emerged and investment trends in the region.

Victor MOSKVIN. Major requirements for a quality management system indicated in investment projects

Quality management systems must meet the ISO 9000 standard requirements. In their turn the bankers and professional investors must be aware of such requirements for their business projects and make the projects meet these requirements.

 

Investment TECHNOLOGIES

Evgeni NOVIKOV. A new method of assessing an investment project business idea

The investment project business idea can be assessed using the well known laws of engineering system construction and development. The author offers such an assessment algorithm.

Mikhail AFANASIEV. An optimum investment programme

A method is offered of forming the optimum investment programme from a submitted investment project under determined conditions with a given finance amount. A total maximum net revenue is used as the optimization criterion.

 

Innovation

Gennadi ZINCHENKO. Innovation development indicators in a national economy

Summary statistic indexes of the economic growth show merely the quantitative side of the economy growth ignoring the qualitative category, this is the innovative development of the production and commodity capital. There is an attempt to use the model approach to measuring innovation effects on the national capital development.

 

Reference and advice

Ivan ELISEEV. Why does the Russian economy lack investment?