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The article discusses the relevance of studying competitive cooperation of territories, reveals its essence, prerequisites, and major ways of formation, as well as emerging difficulties and contradictions. Competitive cooperation of territories is supported by business representatives, public authorities, and the academic community, as illustrated by the results of sociological research. We define and rank the factors that initiate and intensify territorial cooperation in a competitive economy; at the same time, we name the ones that hinder its development. Based on the study findings, territories are ready for some self-restrictions during cooperation in the prospect of reaching a consensus. The article describes possible positive and negative effects of competitive cooperation, determines the most preferred and most promising actions for its establishment. We identify the fundamental characteristic properties of competitive cooperation and give recommendations on how to include them in its development. The article proposes examples depicting real promising projects of competitive cooperation in the Ural Federal District and particularly in Sverdlovsk Oblast.

The article analyzes the development of large companies in Siberian regions as elements of regional innovation systems, on the one hand, and as elements of sectoral innovation systems, on the other. It evaluates the interrelation between the companies' innovation activity and their operational efficiency. We test a hypothesis that innovative companies are more efficient than non-innovative ones. Characteristics related to the innovative development of large companies are partially responsible for their performance: only intra-innovation environment plays an important role, while neither regional nor sectoral innovation environments determine the efficiency of large companies. Such companies may consider innovation activity as a means to improve performance, although they are poorly integrated into regional and sectoral innovation systems.

The article describes the main spatial transformations in the Northwestern macro-region of Russia during the post-Soviet period. The St. Petersburg metropolitan area and the Finnish-Russian border area served as an empirical polygon of the study. An analysis of the spatial structure of the St. Petersburg area revealed the city's still undeveloped land market. This fact hinders further deep restructuring and modernization of the urban environment in accordance with the principles of the most European cities. Common features for the Finnish-Russian border area development are as follows: to include border zones in the system of international cross-border transport corridors; to create new multilateral automobile border-crossing points; to build new roads and reconstruct the existing transport routes.

The article discusses the possibilities of using crowdsourcing in the regional management system. It features crowdsourcing practices and benefits that contribute to better governance. We analyze the results of a survey on the region residents' attitude towards the prospects of using crowdsourcing. The survey respondents were experts already familiar with the technology of introducing crowdsourcing in business operations, as well as citizens of Barnaul, Altai Krai. We elaborate on the examples of crowdsourcing application, highlight its particularities, and specify a designated use area. Based on respondents' self-assessments, it is demonstrated that in the immediate future this technology will develop through organizing crowdsourcing mini-projects (in the form of crowdfunding), involving the generations born after 1983 and 2003 in crowd-sourcing, and engaging the leading universities in crowdsourcing activities as providers of crowdsourcing participants from among students. We conclude that despite the demand for crowdsourcing, there exist many problems that hinder its use in addressing social and state challenges.

The article analyzes the Mongolian projects to regulate streamflow in the Selenga River transboundary basin. It rationalizes a program aimed at evaluating probable consequences of streamflow regulation for Russia's territory. These estimates consider the needs to maintain the safety of Lake Baikal and the Selenga River transboundary basin, meet demands of water users and consumers in Russia and Mongolia under different water availability conditions. The obtained results will help to prepare science-based proposals for mutually beneficial use of transboundary water resources and to articulate a science-based position of the Russian Federation on this issue in international negotiations.

The article proposes an approach to considering quantitative relationships between population morbidity and the state of the natural environment around large thermal power plants. By exercising this approach with data from the Lesosibirsk industrial hub in the Lower Angara region, we managed to establish quantitative relationships between morbidity of child population and the factors affecting it. The article constructs hazardous substances dispersion maps that depend on climatic conditions, the location of production facilities, and characteristics of emissions in the area under study. Variant calculations carried out to determine the concentrations of hazardous substances in the territory, with due regard to the changed conditions for the purification of thermal power plant emissions, made it possible to conclude that it would be inexpedient to build a TPP of a given capacity in the Lower Angara region because of a possible increase in the incidence of upper respiratory tract diseases in children (up to 260-280 cases per 1,000 inhabitants a year).

The article analyzes the social and spatial segregation of the city on a status basis from the perspective of the residential market. We use housing cost and prestige as indicators. The analysis methodology is built upon a combination of the cartographic method and an expert survey of real estate market specialists. We distinguish territorial clusters as fairly dense areas of Novosibirsk usually with residential houses of the same kind, relatively homogeneous in housing cost and prestige. Based on the analysis of the market for new residential construction, we describe the types of territorial clusters that differ in housing cost and prestige. The article also examines the ways to maintain residential homogeneity within territories.

The article suggests a methodical approach to corporate strategic decisions aimed at gap elimination in the processes of creating value for consumers and extracting value for company's stockholders. Within the framework of this approach, we design a strategic value creation/extraction matrix that classifies problematic situations typical for different stages of corporate development and determines adequate ways of value management. Approach verification is based on examining business operations of 40 high-tech companies in Novosibirsk.

The article shows the problem of the standard theory of real investment efficiency evaluation (TRIEE). The standard TRIEE does not describe the important economic fact and does not correspond to the principle of simplicity. It means TRIEE doesn’t able estimate and compare efficiency of investment with different parameters (sum of investment, its period, its NPV). The relationship between the TRIEE and the value based management theory (VBM) is shown. The solution of the TRIEE problem is described - a new method for assessing the effectiveness of various-parameter real investments. It is substantiated that the use of this method allows to maximize the company value. Other tasks that can be solved with the help of the new method are shown.

The fundamental properties and principles characterizing the functioning of economic systems are presented, as the initial knowledge and challenges for the development of a robust governance model that provides protection against the destabilizing factors generated by uncertainty. The concept of introduction of robust governance economic systems is stated. New knowledge about creation of robust stability of open systems is deduced. Disclosed, as carriers of uncertainty, types of business situations. Generalized mathematical structures in the application to the knowledge of uncertainty. A typology is proposed as a generalized representation of the characteristics determining the levels of the display of uncertainty in the process of cognition of this phenomenon.