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At the present stage of the transition to sustainable development, when the share of a green economy in technologically advanced countries reaches one third of GDP, overcoming the structural crisis of the Russia is inseparable from reducing the technological gap and structural imbalances in the economy. These imbalances alienate Russia from ecologically and technologically advanced countries. Therefore, it is highly relevant to develop a methodology for assessing the structural convergence of the economy in the context of the transition to sustainable development, accompanied in developed countries by a new type of structural shift caused by the expansion of convergent technologies, the emergence of new principles of sectoral genesis and the formation of a green economy. The deepening of the divergent nature of Russian economy development was the result of a series of negative structural shifts that consolidated the dominance of extractive and resource-intensive industries, which threaten the final loss of technological identity, consolidation of the recessive trend and a lag in the transition to sustainable development. Therefore, today it is extremely important to formulate a methodology for assessing the structural convergence of Russian economy with technological and ecologically advanced countries, taking into account both quantitative and qualitative aspects.

The main criterion for the sustainable development of social-andeconomic systems is the efficiency of functioning, taking into account the current environmental conditions. At the same time, favorable opportunities for carrying out activities, performing a certain role, confirming the significance in the future period are created. The analysis of the organization of enterprises’ innovation activities made it possible to establish the main trends in entrepreneurial behavior, to identify the features of innovation implementation, taking into account modern business conditions. As a result of the study, the authors found out the reasons for the low innovation activity at the enterprises in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, identified restrictions on the introduction of new technologies, the promotion of innovative products, the influence of factors on changes in the structure of financing innovations. Based on the opinions of specialists, the article highlights favorable opportunities for sustainable development of the region in the course of technological transformation, its resource provision, taking into account the increase in the innovation potential of organizations with the active assistance of the state to the innovation infrastructure development. The ongoing innovation processes determine environmentally oriented social changes leading to the development of society, contribute to increasing the innovations’ receptivity, the life quality and become the main tasks of sustainable development of the regional economy.

In the context of the transition of mineral extractive economies to sustainable development, the role of scientific and innovative support of this process is increasing. Universities are key components of this structural breakthrough. For the Russian economy, interaction and competition between federal universities are especially important, which, on the one hand, offer new technologies of "green" mining, and on the other, they form a high-tech breakthrough. The authors of the study have analyzed the competitiveness of Russian federal universities based on a developed methodology. This allows them to identify leaders and outsiders among these educational organizations and determine their strengths and weaknesses. The results allow the authors to determine the competitiveness of federal universities based on aggregated indicators that consider the influence of internal and external environment factors. The developed and tested methodology is based on the performance indicators of educational organizations, the "Project 5-100" indicators, and the indicators of international competitiveness.

At the present time the task on increasing the efficiency of the social and economic development of the country prevails in Russia. It contributes to increasing the social and economic potential of Russia. In this context, there is a need to develop theoretical and methodological provisions of estimating the efficiency of the social and economic development of Russia. In spite of a great number of works on the economic development of the country, it is necessary to note insufficient consideration of methodologies and indicators related to increasing the efficiency of social and economic development as a system. The existing methodologies of estimation are meant to measure indicators for every specific period. It cannot objectively estimate social and economic development. Thus, this article offers the development of theoretical provisions on estimating the efficiency of social and economic development in dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]