1. Introduction The quest for new sources of growth and development and actualization of these problems in the world economy, in Russia and its regions, involve the analysis of past experience and the search for new ways of resolving the given issues. Economic growth contributes to self-development of economics and further progress; it helps solving many problems in financial and social spheres, increasing the rate of income and employment, improving living standards, etc. The examples of significant growth and development at different stages of the world system evolution can be found in many countries and regions. Thus, in the late 19th--early 20th century, Russia (with a few interruptions) demonstrated high rate of growth. Annually, in Russia (from 1883-1887 to 1909-1913) the GDP grew by 3.25%, in the UK (from 1855-1864 to 1920-1924) by 2.1%, in Germany (from 1850-1859 to 1910-1913) by 2.6%, in France (from 1860-1870 to 1900-1910) by 1.5%. In terms of growth per capita, in 1890s, Russia was at the level of the USA, Japan, and Sweden--the countries with the highest rate of growth. In 1905-1914, the rate of growth in production and construction areas in Russia exceeded 10% per year. In 1909-1914, the rate of industrial growth was 8.8% per year (2). Russia exported agricultural products to one-third of the world's population (3). In 1950-1960, the GDP of Germany grew by more than 2 times, and by the mid-60s it tripled. Over this period the average annual rate of GDP was 8.6%, the index of industrial production for the period of 1950-1960 reached 249%. The rate of unemployment was less than 1%. In 1957-1973, the GDP of Japan grew by 6.5 times and the capacity of industrial production increased by almost 10 times (4). Later, the phenomenon of the economic miracle could be observed in the Republic of Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, etc.; and then--in the region of South-East Asia and China. According to some economists, the success of the economic miracle countries is difficult to explain by the existing theories. We may be standing on the threshold of new ideas in economics of development ... It appears now that a new concept of the stages of development is being created; it will allow ... to work out some practical recommendations on the technology of economic miracles (5). Growth and development are connected with socio-economic changes of the system, which points to the importance of using the tools of evolutionary methodology. For the economic miracle to appear, it is crucial that the practice of policy of a country or a region coincides with internal institutional structures of evolution mechanisms. 2. Instrumentarium of Evolutionary-Institutional Approach in Research and the Structure of Socio-Economic Genotype Economic evolution is first and foremost understood as a non-convertible process, communication (interaction of actors and spheres), and the formation of something new; this is institutional restructuring of the system organization and management under the influence of socio-economic genotype institutions, and the changes of genotype under the influence of system evolution. In socio-economic literature, the concept of genotype is mainly used as a metaphor; it has seldom been the subject of a special study, and its content is ambiguous. It should be noted that the problems of genetics have not been thoroughly investigated in literature, its terminology and semantic framework; even its basic concepts have not been worked out. In G.B. Kleiner's summarizing paper on evolutionary economics (2014, p. 132-133), the identification of genes and their carriers (including genotype) is pointed out as one of fundamental problems of economics. The application of evolutionary-institutional epistemology necessitates singling out a unit of socio-economic evolution within the framework of which the evolution takes place; such a unit, the paper found, is the global system, i. …