Innovative Clustering of Mining Regions as a Tool for Sustainable Development of Resource-Extracting Country

Increasing the degree of mineral processing directly determines the environmental burden on the nature of countries that concentrate on the extraction of mineral raw materials. In the modern world, with the transition to the priorities of advanced technological structures, the creation of a dynamically developing innovative system is becoming increasingly important for mineral extracting countries in the context of the transition to sustainable development. Due to the large territorial fragmentation of the Russian mining regions, it is difficult to identify development of mechanisms and tools for each of them, which provide for the formation of a new technological structures based on the use of the latest advances in science and technology and will help putting the economy on a sustainable development path. The author examines the aspects of the organization of innovation activity at the regional level and substantiates the need for innovative modernization of resource-producing regions, in particular through the creation of innovative regional clusters. The article discusses the prospects of innovative modernization of the coal mining cluster in Kemerovo region.