Raevskii Sergey

The priorities of the border cooperation of the Primorsky Territory are considered in the article. The author stresses that the social and economic development management of the border region is closely connected with the issues of the effective organization of the international economic cooperation with the adjacent states. The development problems of the border interaction in the Far East and in the Primorsky Territory are analyzed. The importance of the formation of the region image for the growth of the efficiency of the frontier economic cooperation is shown. The great value of the accelerated development of the Primorsky Territory in the nearest future as the strategic subject of the Russian Federation directly adjoining to the countries of the Asia-Pacific region is considered. The main strategic directions of the use of the potentials of the border position of Primorsky Territory for the development of the cooperation with the adjacent states are formulated.

The article discusses the features of the formation of regional growth points. It is noted that in the development of growth points the primary concern is the scope of innovation in the region. At the same time, a special role is played by infrastructure components - as channels of innovation distribution. An analysis of different approaches to understanding the points of growth in the economy of the region is made as well as, offering a personal understanding and awareness of this category. The guaranteed financial and social effects of multiplicative points of growth in such regions is also examined. The conclusion reached is that the strategic choices favoring the formation of points of growth and diversification based on a region's economy will in the long run lead towards the achievement of higher socio-economic results.