The  paper   considers   the  issues  of  creation   of  elements   of  the  regional   innovation infrastructure and mechanisms  of technologies commercialization. 15 years of experience of the Novosibirsk  technological park  of distributed type are examined.  Proposals  for the key aspects of support  of small knowledge-intensive companies  are formulated.

The  paper considers the  issues  of construction of the  complex support system  of information-economic education in the system of general  education in Novosibirsk  Region. Main results of the international consortium work during 2007–2012 are generalized. The outlook for profile education of pupils in business informatics is presented. Competencies obtained by pupils in the course of business informatics  study are considered.

The  «Mobile health» direction combining both healthcare and  mobile devices  is consid- ered. The consumers analysis  of the «Mobile health» products and services  is carried out. Key requirements to the  «Mobile health» products and  service  providers are  formulated. «Infor- mation Seekers» consumer segment is analyzed. The results of the IBM Institute for Business Value survey of users of home medical devices  are presented. Examples of successful «Mobile health» products are described.

The article considers the concept of production systems stability and its interrelation with concepts  of reliability  and  functioning  stability. Stability  factors  and  statistical  approach to the factors measurement are offered. The concept  of instability  loss and qualitative problem definition  of loss minimization is introduced.

The socioeconomic essence and content of the staff movement in the context of exchange relations are revealed. Theoretic and  methodic basics of the staff movement mechanism, that allows the company  to have competitive staff and act on the variable  needs  in competitive advantages of employees,  are considered. The classification  of the staff movement types depending on the competitiveness of home labour market  is offered.

The  article considers the  interrelation between economic regulators with  a direct influ- ence on functioning of social-oriented systems. Possibilities of market and nonmarket regulators integration as well as a follow-up forming of social-oriented economic agents operational environment are  analyzed. Possible limitations affecting the  efficiency of economic relations of social-oriented systems  in market environment are  formulated. Foreign experience of interaction formation of social-oriented subjects with other participants of economic activity  as well as their involvement in the  market system  and  assessments of socioeconomic effects  is analyzed.

The  article formulates the problem of low level of the consumer services  development in big Russian cities. A number of facts characterizing strong territorial and  price  distortions in consumer  services are outlined. Theoretic theses that explain disproportions in the context of a special economic balance with allowance for risks are formulated. Methods of the consumer services strategy construction on the basis of risks reduction and improvement of market competition in the industry are offered.

The  article defines the  most  important trends in modern machine-building complex. The interrelation between the use of national cultural features and effective forming of innovation technologies management systems  is drawn out.  Components of the  progressive enterprise management system  are  formulated. Possibilities for Russian enterprises to optimize and  rationalize management function through consulting companies are considered.

 Problems of reforming of the state pension system  in Russia are considered. Reasons are analyzed. In the context of foreign experience of pension systems  transformation, methods of further reforming of pension insurance in Russia are proved.

The article considers  the issues relating  to checking of representativity of results of sampling sociological, demographic observations. The entire  assembly feature  in such researches (general  population, its individual  types, classes) is that  in most cases parameters values of these multitudes are a priori unknown which makes it difficult to apply traditional approaches to the appraisal  of representativeness of result samplings based on CLT (central  limit theorem). The paper  formulates and evaluates  on real information arrays  additional conditions (checking  of real informativeness of the type-forming attributes), allowing to decrease  risks of human bias.

The  article suggests the  indicators calculation technique that  takes into  consideration the  effect  of  household income inequality not  only  domestically but  also  internationally. Gompertz function was used  as a mathematico-statistical model. International institutes statistics was used as input data.

The article considers the analysis  of structure of relations and connections of region fields. Indicators of coherence of structural and  quantitative stability of field system  are  suggested. It was demonstrated that  the concept of the variant definition of ways of the most rational use of heavy  and  effective resources and  investments could  be developed on the  basis  of matrix balance models. Comparative economical efficiency of various fields was esteemed. Formulation of ways of formation of the entire economic complex was made.

The  article considers the  system  of economic and  demographic cycles. A  definition of the  «cycle» term is given. Cycle types  are  described. Much  attention is given to the  influence of N.D.  Kondratyev on the  working-out of the  cyclicity  theory. The  concept of demographic waves  as well as the  value  of works  of A.Ya. Kvasha and  B.S. Khorev in the  research of this phenomenon are  considered. The  issue  of the  medium-term demographic cycle  duration  is brought. The  conjuncture theory being  the  logical  extension of the  «crises  theory» – «cycles theory» – «conjuncture theory» is described.

The  article  considers  the  comparative assessment  procedure of activity of regional  cooperative organizations with regard  to objective  conditions  of functioning. The procedure is based  on the performance comparison of each organization with performance of organizations that are in much the same business environment. Aggregate of the regional  consumers associations of the Russian Federation is divided into stratums  by means of automatic classification technique. Comparative assessments  of the operating efficiency of consumers  associations of the Russian Federation are made in the context of the found groups.

The article considers one of the employment types – self-employment. Variations from the employment relations  (participants, connection form of labour power with means of production, organizational forms, behaviour etc.) are shown. Genetic  reasons  for self-employment development are revealed.  Key phenomenological features  are pointed  out. Main properties of self-employment (awareness, practicability, sociality, uncertainty etc.)  are  formulated. Development problems  are stated.

 Social determination of right is examined as an interaction in public conscience of two val- ues: «general weal»  and  social  benefit. General weal is universalizable regulator (mandatory for every  reasonable man); public  good  (social  benefit) is a social  convention that  is formed as a resultant of current citizenry interests and  is varied together with them. Both regulators act composed of public  law as the most powerful juridical leverage on society. B.N. Chicherin’s assessment of the  social  benefit as the  regulator of public  law is dual.  On  the  one  hand, it hinders the  realization of justice,  on the  other hand – guarantees the  public  law efficiency in crisis social situations. Social determination of right  is multidimensional and provides various outlook for the public  society  sector.

Socio-economic essence and  content of the  management development of bank personnel in conditions of formation of the  national innovation economy are  revealed. The  genesis of  concepts of  the  management development of  personnel is considered. Classification of approaches on the management development of personnel depending on the corporate competitiveness of bank executives is offered.

In recent years  the  city-manager public  office spreads more and  more. A lot of city-man- agers  in Krasnoyarsk Territory as well as some  in Novosibirsk Region emerged. City-managers rule  the  local administrations in Ekaterinburg, Barnaul, Biysk  and  many  other cities. The article discusses the issues of the office, rights, liabilities. The  comparative analysis  of old and new system  of organization of the considered link of the power vertical is carried out.

The  paper formulates the  authors’ view on  the  content concept of the  accommodation procurability. Various approaches on  the  assessment of the  resumptive indicator characterizing the level of the accommodation procurability are presented and discussed. Various  calculation  techniques (international and domestic)  of the accommodation procurability index were made. A comparative analysis of the findings was carried out.

The  article discusses world  and  Russian trends in mergers and  acquisitions. Identifying features of the  Russian M&A market are  pointed out.  Main  factors and  trends forming the mergers and acquisitions market in the Russian oil-and-gas system  are considered. Special  attention is given to the examination of goals and peculiarities of integration strategies. Conclusions and recommendations were  made.

The  article considers methodic approaches to the  assessment of quality of service  of the hotel industry. Advantages and  disadvantages of one  of the  existing  estimating procedures of a Russian hotel are defined. The necessity for substitution of individual elements of the procedure to more objective ones for the purpose of the increase of the efficiency of the assessment and decrease  of the risk of making incorrect  decision in service quality  management of the company in a whole.

The  paper considers the  main  approaches to the  assessment of efficiency of health services  currently applied in Russian and  foreign practice. Advantages and  disadvantages are discussed. Regional aspect of the  analysis  is considered. Conclusions and  recommendations focused on the increase of adequacy and effectiveness of the existent assessments of efficiency are made.

The article considers political caricatures. It is analyzed how caricatures could  function as an attack against the  whole  country. Caricatures on the  Russian-Georgian conflict of August 2008 published in Western European and American prints are  analyzed for that  matter. Various  elements of a graphical style  in the  context of the  rhetorical audience impact, aimed at raising allegations against Russia as well as forming of the negative country image on the terri- tory of North Atlantic Alliance, are analyzed. It has been found that  political caricatures carry not only an entertaining function but also a function of forming public opinion in whole and in particular – the development of the enemy image through  making a multinational accusation.

The application of the system approach in the examination of the investment nature  of mergers  and acquisitions  makes  it possible to determine the synergy sources  depending on time of its receipt  and planning  horizon. The article analyses the interrelation of concepts  of competitiveness and investment attractiveness of a company. Their value on the realization of the long-term  synergy is defined. Choice of assessment  criteria  of the investment attractiveness considering  goals (motives)  of integration, risk level and  investor  potential is proved. Recommendations enabling  to prove the choice of company  – goal at the planning  stage of M&A deals, as well as increase the efficiency of managerial decisions on M&A deals are made.

The  article considers several problems of functioning of the  world,  regional and  national currency system  as well as modern issues  of the  European Monetary System  and  European- Asian Economic Union.

The  article presents the  research results of the  traditional cost  management model. The necessity for  its transformation is proved. A  new  concept content of the  cost  management system  is introduced. Other cost  features are  revealed. New  management principles are  formulated.

Direct-marketing service  is a fast growing  domestic market. It opens new possibilities for business, small and  medium-sized companies especially. Direct marketing service  market has its own features, various lines of development which are considered in the article.

The  issues  of making of the  management strategy of information products and  services with  an allowance for risks  lying in the  management of libraries and  information centers as manufacturers of science-intensive products  are considered. An example of market  strategies selection on the basis of use of game with nature  models is given.

Forming  of the system of continuous professional education is considered in the context of formation and  development of the  economic  basement of postindustrial society. Directions and forms of the dialectical  interaction of the new educational model  and innovation economy based on knowledge  are revealed. The structure is shown, main ways of forming of the system of continuous professional education in Russia are outlined.

The paper considers the conceptual model of management of economic stability of higher educational institution. Key  aspects of model formation are  proved. These aspects involve openness of a higher educational institution as a system, environment features, risks  in life activity  of educational institutions of a higher professional education, definition of economic stability of a higher educational institution, selection of variant of economic stability assessment. The  conceptual model is presented. Complex risk factor – higher education institution stability index chart is plotted.

The  article considers several aspects of capital flight  as an economic process. An  assessment  of mechanisms of capital outflow and their impact on functioning of the Russian economy and the level of economic security was made.