Assessment of the University’s Contribution to Regional Development

–The results of many years of research in the field of assessing the mutual influence of regions and entities operating within the region are presented. In this article, the authors presented a fragment of a unique development a methodology for assessing the contribution of a university to regional development. Considering the importance of the Strategic Academic Leadership Program announced for the implementation of the Strategic Academic Leadership Program for the development of science, education, technology in the Russian Federation, the authors offer a practical toolkit for determining quantitative assessments of the impact of educational institutions of higher education on progress in different spheres of life of the regional environment and society. The classification and ranking of indicators, economic assessments of the contribution of the Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University to the economic development of the Novgorod region, examples of projects implemented by the university aimed at increasing the intellectual potential of the region are presented. Methodological recommendations can be useful both for the authorities regulating the modernization of higher education in the country and for regional authorities in the development of mechanisms that provide a synergistic effect from the “universityregion” collaboration, as well as for heads of universities who are currently formulating programs for the development of universities to receive grants of Strategic Academic Leadership