The article is devoted to current issues of the impact of regional policy on competitiveness and economic activity of the regions of Ukraine. The theoretical aspects of regional policy and its main directions of influence on the economic activity of individual industries are considered in the article. Also, the article considers the main problems and crises. At the same time, the article considers the influence of different factors on the region at different levels, beginning from establishing the interrelation of the influence of the region on the enterprise and vice versa and finishing with the influence of external, national, and international, environment on the region. Also, the article considers some approaches to the definition of the concept "competitiveness of the region" and on this basis, the views of various scientists to the definition of the concept "competitiveness of the region" are considered. The article examines the concept of "regional competitiveness" from several sides, depending on the scale, and provides several formulas that can be used to establish the level of competitiveness of the region. The article considers the system of indicators for characterizing the competitiveness of the region proposed by some scientists. At the same time the tasks, which have to be solved by the local and national authorities, are also considered, and the main problems, which have to be solved in order to achieve the optimal competitiveness of the region, are established. At the same time the main tasks for the budgetary policy, which must be fulfilled for the stable development and functioning of the regions of Ukraine in modern conditions, are established. Innovative development as a tool for the influence on the competitiveness of the region and enterprises, which are and work in this region has been offered. The ways of activation of innovative development in the region are considered. Ways of improving the competitiveness of the region are considered.
Tkachenko et al. (Tue,) studied this question.