Ecosystem business models are becoming widespread in the modern economy; their potential is increasingly understood by financial institutions. Banks become part of the ecosystems and some of them initiate their creation, seeing in this business model an opportunity for their development. However, not all the possibilities of the ecosystem business model are sufficiently recognized by banks. Meanwhile, becoming “orchestrators” of ecosystems, banks get new opportunities, taking on new management functions that require the development of new promising competencies. This aspect predetermined the goal of this article—to explore the essence and development prospects of banking ecosystems and create a model for the establishment of additional innovative and technological advantages for banking ecosystems, allowing the bank to create conditions for long-term competitive advantages. Methods of comparative analysis, statistical methods, modeling methods, and cluster and regression analysis were applied. The results: a model of technological increment that formed during the functioning of the banking ecosystem has been developed; the authors established that the orchestration of the ecosystem by the bank creates opportunities for the formation of new profit centers because of the formation’s greater number of innovative technologies and the possibility to dispose the intellectual property.

The study of the rates of innovative development of various sectors of the modern economy makes it possible to determine the existence of a scientific and practical problem, eliciting the need for urgent identification of the reasons for non-innovative development of Oil and Gas Companies and development of the directions for innovation development. Based on a number of methods, including methods of graphical analysis, time series forecasting, construction of linear trends, correlation analysis and scenario forecasting, the authors stated the fact of the serious depth of the problem of innovative insufficiency in the oil sector in comparison with other sectors and they built six scenarios for the development of these companies. The applied methods made it possible to not only come to the conclusion that with the current level of investment in R&D in the oil and gas sector, Oil Companies may find themselves in difficult conditions, especially if breakthrough technologies show themselves in the non-hydrocarbon energy of the future, but also made it possible to determine the most important directions for the development of Oil Companies, including the formation and development of the oil and gas industry 4.0, marketing strategic management of the activities of these companies.

This article discusses the current state and trends in the development of the electric power industry in Kazakhstan. An analysis of the energy supply and energy intensity of Kazakhstan’s GDP is provided in this paper. The results of the foresight of the risks and opportunities of the energy industry are described. This study identifies the relationship between the traditional development of the energy industry and the development of alternative energy sources. In addition, the work examines the risks and consequences of various trends in the development of national and global energy. Previous studies have shown that government efforts are insufficient in developing an alternative energy sector in Kazakhstan. The research results show that there is a need to transform energy production from traditional sources towards greater efficiency and environmental friendliness, as well as the active involvement of the business community in the development of an alternative energy market. This is expected to attract more investments and transfer technologies to maintain the country’s position in the energy market of the future.

The methodological problems of identifying ecosystems as business models are revealed and systematized, their unique qualities, innovative potential are revealed, and their typology is studied. The systemic nature of ecosystem business models is established and the process of their scaling is described on the basis of the project approach.

The author considers the controlled process of designing and functioning ecosystem business models, carried out by applying a multi-project approach, which implies the formation of conjugated and complementary projects that are implemented in a complex manner. A model for creating and managing an ecosystem and a methodical approach for evaluating the effectiveness of an ecosystem's functioning is proposed.