The starting point for this research is the authors' hypothesis that global innovational networks play an important role in the development of the modern global economy because they stimulate international cooperation in the innovational sphere, the translation of knowledge in the global economic system, and general scientific and technological development and production development. The purpose of this article is to verify this hypothesis, conduct a complex study on the phenomenon of global innovational networks, and determine their purpose and role in the development of the modern global economy. The methodological basis of this research is founded on the logical modeling of economic systems and methods of structural and functional, systemic, and problem analysis. In the process of the research, the authors studied examples of global innovational networks created based on modern Europe that include countries from all over the world, namely, Horizon 2020, ERA.Net RUS, and Eurocores (European Collaboration Research). The authors also conducted complex analysis of statistical information on various global innovational networks, the dynamics of the quantity of innovational projects, realized participation in global innovational networks, and the significance of the global innovational indexes of countries of Western Europe (Great Britain, Germany, France, and Italy), Central and Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Latvia) and Russia in 2005-2014. The authors provide a sense of global innovational networks, including their peculiarities and advantages; build a structural and logical model of the global market of innovations; and determine the role of global innovational networks in the development of the modern global economy

At the present stage one of the most important factors in the economic growth of Russian regions is the production processes modernization based on the best available technologies (hereinafter—BAT), ensuring the reduction of the negative impact on the environment in cost-effective ways. The most important conditions for the successful implementation of BAT at regional enterprises is the creation of general institutional conditions at the all-Russian level and the supply of enterprises with domestic technologies meeting the criteria of the best available technology. Over the past several years, large-scale work has been carried out in Russia to amend legislation, prepare BAT reference documents, and form the institutional conditions for their implementation. However, sustainable outcomes in specific regions will require the further development of regional innovation systems, consistent with the needs of local enterprises in BAT. The article proposes a general regional mechanism for managing the sustainable development of an innovation system based on BAT. For its successful implementation, a set of practical recommendations for the Rostov region has been formed. Within the framework of the innovation regional infrastructure it was proposed to create a new institute for the implementation of BAT—the Regional BAT competence center, priority areas for the development of potential and promising BAT in the region were identified, a general pattern of interaction of the Regional BAT competence center with other participants in the process was developed.

The paper representing the author’s study of the role of Russian oil and gas companies in combating climate change considers the issue of ensuring sustainable development, which is currently becoming more and more relevant. Using the analysis and synthesis techniques and the analytical and statistical study results, the authors have concluded that the climate change issue is a huge threat to humanity and requires an immediate solution. Oil and gas companies being one of the largest environmental pollution sources should first and foremost take appropriate measures to combat climate change. A systematic approach as the main one has been chosen to study this issue, due to which such diverse elements as sustainable development, the state, and oil and gas companies that have previously been studied separately are considered from a holistic perspective. The paper has proven that the largest Russian oil and gas companies such as Gazprom PJSC, LUKOIL PJSC, and Rosneft OC PJSC recognize the importance of actions to combat climate change and not only include sustainable development goals in their policies and strategies but also implement specific responses to climate change, thereby making a significant contribution to achieving the goal of combating climate change. The paper materials are of practical value for state authorities in terms of improving policies implemented in the field of sustainable development and drawing up regulatory documents and programs. Also, the research results may be considered by oil and gas other industry companies that have not yet passed to more sustainable business development models.

The article is devoted to investigate the problem of creation and improvement of country's infrastructure based on public-private partnership (further referred as PPP). As an object of research, authors look at public relations, that arise during the implementation of projects under the framework of the PPP law. The article considers the norms of the PPP law, as well as other laws, that regulate various aspects of agreements under PPP. As a result of conducting research, authors conclude that first of all, the difference between PPP and other forms of collaboration between the state and private sector (e.g. rent, privatization) is in its private principles, legal mechanisms and forms of realization. Such relations require a well-developed normative-legal basis. Secondly, the main idea of the stated law is not the opportunity for the private party to purchase the object of the agreement, but a wide opportunity to develop an effective form of PPP. Given this, authors point out, that the law about PPP possesses a number of features, that need to be considered alongside with various branches of legal rights. After the law was accepted, there was a need to reconsider a number of normative-legal acts of federal and regional significance in the aspect of public investment and budgetary guarantees. Given this, it is necessary to investigate the problems of public-private relations regulation in a complex manner, which will allow to define the key directions for the development of this institution.

The purpose of the article is to determine the development trends of the best available technique installation mechanism and innovative institutions as suppliers of Russian analogues of such techniques in Russia and its regions. The best available techniques are considered in this article as the latest techniques, initially formed in the innovative sector with their subsequent implementation and inclusion in the category of the best available ones. The sources of this technique are considered as regional innovation systems, in which the innovative investigations are created and tested. In this regard, when forming a mechanism for the best available technique installation in the Russian regions, including the forest sector, it is necessary to ensure communication with the innovation sector, which would form the industrial enterprises’ demand for innovative environmental investigations. Taking into consideration the manufacturing industries’ linkage, the necessary innovations in the forest sector have been analyzed. Forestry is a supplier of raw materials for furniture and paper industries. Therefore, the modernization of reference books on the industries should be appropriate and comply with the programs for the forestry development in the Russian Federation.