Elena Dmitrieva

When analyzing the phenomenon of individual human capital, one cannot fail to take into account the factor of the quality of life of both the individual and his/her family members, which is especially important in 2024, which has been declared the Year of the Family in the Russian Federation. The aim of the study was to analyze the relationship between solving intrafamily social problems associated with unable to work family members and improving the quality of regional human capital. It is shown that effective regional policies aimed at meeting the social needs of unable to work family members (children and the elderly) affect the ability of the working population to ensure their professional development, which ensures an increase in the quality of regional human capital.

The apaper considers the approaches to definition of value of a brand. Based on analysis of brands rating in 2005–2014 by Interbrand, the author makes the conclusions about the impact of 2008 global financial crisis on the value of the top brands and defines the place of brand value in the company's competi-tiveness.

The article discusses the theoretical and methodological aspects of business development, perceptual ambiguity of the term, the dependence of the development of small business in Russia on the state of the education market and the labor force.

The paper proposed and considered multifactorial model of analysis of regions of the Russian Federation. The basis of the idea of ​​building a spatial model was based on the methodology of the modified ABC-analysis, where the main characteristics were considered: the production of goods and services, the dynamics of production and the volume of innovative products and services in the region. The analysis results are of practical importance for the development of strategies to strengthen the unity of economic space and the innovative development of our country.