Mesoeconomics as a new form of industrial development

The article examines the development of mesoeconomic approach to the analysis of economics and its scientific potential. Addressing the specifics of mesoeconomic approach development, the author considers the evolution of ideas about mesoeconomics in foreign and domestic literature and demonstrates the three approaches to the problem explored in foreign literature: from the point of view of regional economics, institutional theory and methodological approach. It shows that, taking into account the ideas of foreign authors, Russian scientists have significantly expanded the field of scientific research in mesoeconomics, which has embodied in a number of scientific areas that tend to separate from each other. Exploring the reasons behind the interest in mesoeconomics and paying tribute to the achievements of domestic science, the author explores whether mesoeconomics can become a new direction in economic analysis. The author draws attention to the limitations of evolutionary approach to the problems of mesoeconomics, albeit acknowledging it as the necessary and possible solution. Considering the demand for expanding the analysis tools for the new phenomena in the modern economy, the article concludes that mesoeconomics has a significant scientific potential. Its implementation involves determining the nature of the subjects that form the mesospace, as well as establishing the causes of their occurrence. The author sees the reason in contradiction generated by modern hypercompetition — the need for continuous innovative leadership and the impossibility of providing this alone, which is resolved through the emergence of a fundamentally new form of production — intra-production cooperation of specialised, legally and economically independent firms.

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