Methodology of Assessment and Analysis of Regional Competitiveness Based on the Evolutionary Theory

Abstract

Abstract— The article deals with issues related to the analysis and assessment of factors and the level of regional competitiveness. Approaches are offered for the development of the existing methodical apparatus in this field. The approach to analysis and assessment proposed by the authors is aimed at researching the regional socio-economic system as a dynamically-changing self-developing organism. The provisions on the assessment of elements of the economic system are formulated on the basis of grouping them according to the principle: regress-depression-progress.The proposed methodology is based on the principles of evolutionary economic theory and tested over the analysis of the construction materials industry in the Belgorod region.