Abstract: This article describes the research results on the role of wood processing industry in Russia’s Economic Security Strategy. The authors prove the importance of performance criteria of this industry, as it currently experiences the following innovative changes: improvement of processing technology; expansion of the use of raw materials and final products; formation of the new assessment methods of the effectiveness of investments in this area, considering risks, which allows the investors to make decisions on capitalization of their financial resources in wood processing. Over a long period of rime, high prices on natural resources did not stimulate the development of high-tech industries. The subject of this research is the innovative methods and means as the investment objects of wood processing industry. Methodological and theoretical foundation contains the works of the Russian scholars in exploring the wood processing industry, its marketing, management and logistics. The suggested method of risk assessment in decisions-making on funding the innovation-investment projects allows solving multiple issues associated with managing the spatial-economic development of natural resources of the particular territories, as well as substantiate the placement of economic structures in the regions for socioeconomic development. However, the risk factors for wood processing industry that affect the optimal functioning and development of the markets, considering the specificity of certain forest zones, remain insufficiently studied. As a result, the proposed methodology will be able to improve the state of the industry in the overall volume of export for achieving the strategic indexes of Russia’ economic security in the long-term perspective.

Abstract: The subject of the study is the organizational and economic state of the Russian research complex. The main goal of the work is to describe the current state of the scientific and research base in Russia. In the course of the work, methods of logical and statistical analysis, synthesis, data extrapolation and forecasting were used. The methodological basis of the study was the work of domestic and awakened scientists, legislative and regulatory acts of state authorities. The article analyzes the costs of research and development in the Russian Federation, including comparative characteristics in relation to the country's GDP. To identify the research potential, the general structure of organizations performing scientific research and development by sector of activity in the Russian Federation was presented. Analysis of the sources of financing has made it possible to determine the prevailing influence of the public sector, while in the advanced economies, industrial enterprises are the "locomotive" of development. The application of research results is possible at the level of the formation of a scientific and practical basis for determining critical points in the development of the research complex of Russia. In the course of the work, methods of logical and statistical analysis, synthesis, data extrapolation and forecasting were used. The methodological basis of the study was the work of domestic and awakened scientists, legislative and regulatory acts of state authorities. The novelty of the study is to justify the need for the formation of an updated management system for Russia's research complex, taking into account the identified point indicators that characterize its current state. At the end of the study, it was concluded that the state of Russia's research complex does not allow the economy to move to an innovative type of development in a timely manner without additional measures aimed at attracting private investors to the research sector.