The article describes the application of the Smart City concept and the economic opportunities it creates, infrastructure and services, and opportunities to improve governance. The main features of the Smart City concept, development directions and evolution, standards and solutions, and factors and obstacles to its implementation have been analyzed by the author. The experience of different countries in the application of digital technologies is discussed. The article provides the scope and structure of the "smart" market, application stages, and scenarios The international experience in this direction was widely analyzed and examples were shown. The article talks about smart cities, the construction of which has already begun in Azerbaijan. The application of the smart city concept in Azerbaijan has been studied. It is stressed that the spread of digital technologies for the construction of a smart city in Azerbaijan is a prerequisite. The Network Readiness Index (NRI) identifies the indicators that are holding back Azerbaijan in the ranking for 2021.

The author analyses classification of the methods for evaluation of an enterprise's innovative potential. According to the author, the most effective model taking into account the uncertainty factor is the model based on the theory of fuzzy sets. The model has obvious advantages in comparison with the expert and statistical methods of evaluation, since it allows us to minimize the evaluation errors. The scientific-practical value of the results consists in a possibility of their application in a combination with the analysis of the official statistical data in the course of perfection of the state scientific and technical and innovative policy in the direction of a more intensive use of the scientific knowledge and achievements in the interests of modernization of the economy of Azerbaijan. The proposed approach can ensure an information integration of the economic zone of the scientific organizations and be used for a complex research of the industrial, innovative and economic-administrative processes within the framework of development of science.

The article describes the application of the Smart City concept and the economic opportunities it creates, infrastructure and services, and opportunities to improve governance. The main features of the Smart City concept, development directions and evolution, standards and solutions, factors and obstacles to its implementation have been analyzed by the author. The experience of different countries in the application of digital technologies is discussed. The article provides the scope and structure of the "smart" market, application stages and scenarios. International experience in this field was widely analyzed and examples were given, comparisons were made and suggestions were made. The article talks about smart cities, the construction of which has already begun in Azerbaijan. The application of the smart city concept in Azerbaijan has been studied. It is stressed that the spread of digital technologies for the construction of a smart city in Azerbaijan is a prerequisite. The Network Readiness Index (NRI) identifies the indicators that are holding back Azerbaijan in the ranking for 2021. In our study, based on the growth dynamics for 2017-2020, the forecast was calculated by analyzing the trend in the ICT development index in Azerbaijan for 2022-2025.

The paper develops and presents an appropriate model toolkit that allows assessing the relationship between the calculated indices of economic sentiment and confidence for the main types of economic activity. The aim of the study is to experimentally substantiate the relevance of data on the opinions of technological economic agents and assess the value of this information for the statistical description and analysis of macroeconomic trends, including economic cycles and unforeseen and prolonged crises. The main hypothesis about the cyclical sensitivity of composite indices, in particular the index of economic sentiment in relation to the dynamics of the physical volume of GDP, is tested. The authors calculate a composite indicator of aggregate economic sentiment and, based on a consistent analysis of the relationship between the index of physical volume of GDP and the indicator of economic sentiment, identify aggregate empirical patterns and features of the cyclical development of technological enterprises. Accordingly, the turning points of the business cycle are discussed and the leading nature of the proposed index of economic sentiment is affirmed. The importance of the composite indicators in the economic analysis of entrepreneurial behavior in the implementation of technological innovations is shown. The nature of the calculated Economic Sentiment Index was established, and its predictive capabilities for monthly and annual real GDP growth rates using autoregression and error correction models were investigated. The stages of calculating and setting indices with the application of the DEMETRA+ statistical package were implemented.

В статье рассмотрены существующие системы оценки деятельности организаций, кон-цептуальный подход кформированию системы мо-ниторинга инновационной деятельности, методика оценки научно-технологических комплексов эконо-мических зон Азербайджана.Вопросы оценки инновационного развития эконо-мических зон рассматриваются на основе статисти-ческих данных, воздействия, оказываемого соци-ально-экономическими условиями в экономиче-ских зонах на инновационный потенциал.Исследованы система мониторинга оценки деятель-ности организаций, механизмы усовершенствова-ния системы управления инновационным потенци-алом субъектов, структурная схема системы управ-ления инновационным...