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Purpose: revealing interrelation of small business development and innovativeness of Russian regions. Methodology: to enable the analysis of interrelations of levels of small business development and innovativeness of Russian regions, they are presented as five large groups which are homogeneous in terms of a set of parameters characterizing the concentration of small enterprises, workers, production volumes in the small business sectors of manufacturing, construction, transport, and trade. These interrelations were recorded based on the division of regions within the selected clusters, according to the indicators of the All-Russian rating of innovative development. Conclusion: as follows from the analysis, it has been established that at a qualitative level it is possible to detect the conformity of levels of small business development and innovativeness of regions. However, within the first three clusters ranged according to levels of small business development, there is a strong differentiation of regions according to their degree of innovativeness. This prevents from asserting with certainty that the abovementioned interrelation has a clear quantitative dependence. There is a clear direct relationship between levels of development between groups of regions. In Clusters with low level of small business development, most regions are characterized by low ratings of innovative development. It cannot be argued that the dependence identified has a causative-consecutive nature. More likely, there are various manifestations of socioeconomic activity of population and organizations throughout the country as an institutional characteristic of administrative-territorial entities of the country. No relationship was found between the levels of innovativeness of regions and the sectoral structure of small business.

Purpose Determining the methods of changes that ensure achievement of their goals with preservation of basic parameters of socio-economic systems. Discussion Any real socio-economic system, being open and interacting with the external environment, experiences certain fluctuations (random deviations of the system from a certain average state). Under the influence of energy and things that come from the outside, these fluctuations strengthen and start “shattering” the old ties between the elements of the system. The fluctuations are random deviations from the balance in the course of interaction with the environment; with the weakening of internal ties, random changes lead to the necessity for changes of the system. At the same time, the necessity for changes does not mean their determination. Which direction of further movement near the critical point is selected by the system depends primarily on the range of random circumstances or targeted management. Results During selection of the direction of changes, the sub-system of management should take into account that in a new state the managed system should adopt enough inputs from the environment for its preservation—in order to compensate the output and spending of energy and materials used in the process of functioning.