Innovative approaches to the history of exploitation and new development of the Russian Arctic

Abstract

The placement of productive forces, endogenous economic growth and innovative search with creative destruction are the three sources of forming the new economic development theory of the Russian Arctic. From the Soviet school the tradition of linking the process of exploitation with the placement of productive forces was used. From the European regional science, the notion that every social process in the regions is subject to the general laws in the framework of the new theory of endogenous economic growth was used. From the North American frontier theory there was used the notion of an innovative search for opportunities for economic development in the newly exploited territory. The modern process of exploitation is characterized by spatial unevenness, center-peripherality, multiactor, the unprecedented role of resource corporations as agents of glocalization; the heterogeneity of time by the stages of the exploitation process (what was expressed significantly lesser in the planned administrative-command model of new exploitation) and the enormous role of project management (project financing, project legislation developed for a specific project of new resource exploitation). A feature of modern exploitation is that it implies the coexistence of two schemes - from scratch and on the foundation of the former infrastructural exploitationб which have different effects and regularities in territorial structures, exploitation cycles, etc. Innovative approaches to the history of exploitation and new development of the Russian Arctic on the example of modern exploitation projects that link the global conjuncture and local technological processes as well as a new nature of an experimental, educational and spatially localized type was considered.