The paper deals with the issues of innovation development of economy through integration of universities with innovation companies. By way of an example of OJSC Perm oil machine engineering company” and the Perm State Technical University the problems of development of the enterprises, high school science and possible solutions by creation of innovation clusters and research centers are considered. An organizational scheme for establishment of research centers and organizational structure of management of the given centers as well as the tools for innovation development in terms of the system approach are also discussed in the paper.

In the article, the problem of the methodological process support of regional tax benefits is reviewed. The method of tax benefits assessment, accepted in Perm Region, was chosen as an analysis object because the relatively long period of application of benefits has allowed to build enough statistics base. In the article, the reliability of budget, economic, investment, and social effectiveness assessments of application benefits, based on the Method, is investigated. The suggestions of its perfection are formulated.