Trends and «Oddities» in the Evolution of Industry in the Irkutsk Region in the Space of Innovative and Destructive Disturbances

Abstract

The bizarre evolution of regional industry in a disturbed environment is manifested by the features of non-linear functioning as responses to the influence of assertive factors of transformation of the world and national economy. The motley picture of the chronological series of values of basic industry indicators encourages us to evaluate and explain the observed trends, drawing attention to the «oddities» of the economic dynamics of industry in the Irkutsk region. In an effort to increase the analytics of transition processes excited in the regional economy by streams of innovative and destructive disturbances, the theoretically and practically significant task of objectifying and understanding the patterns of maneuvering of the industry of the Baikal region in a non-stationary environment is being updated. The attractiveness of research on this popular topic in order to identify and argue trends in the evolution of industry in the Irkutsk region obliges us to turn to the teachings of evolution, chaos and disasters, nonlinear dynamics and synergetics, which constitute the methodology of the research presented, for instrumental processing and interpretation of complex economic processes in industrial systems. The information and empirical basis for the research was information from federal and regional statistics, scientific publications on the problems of industrial and innovation management. In accordance with the purpose of the study, the object of study is the industry of the Irkutsk region. Scientific novelty lies in the increase in knowledge about the sources, factors and phenomena of the evolution of regional industry in the space of innovative and destructive disturbances. The article reveals the nonlinear dynamics of indices of the physical volume of the gross regional product, industrial production, investment in fixed capital, and a number of indicators of innovative activity of the regional industry. The conducted research modernizes the theoretical, methodological and applied tools for managing the development of regional industry in a non-stationary environment.