Published: 15 March 2019
The determining factor for sustainable economic growth is ensuring timely and sufficient investment resources. It is important for the region that such sources can be used on a longterm basis. It is also important that they are aimed not only at maintaining existing technologies and industries, but also contribute to the formation of industries of a new technological structure, digitalization. Official statistics indicate a disproportion in the socioeconomic development of Russia’s regions. Disproportions are aggravated by both heterogeneity in natural geographical and demographic parameters, and uneven regional investment space. In this regard, the analysis of the current dynamics of investments in the region and the study of their growth opportunities are of theoretical and practical interest.The article assesses the dynamics of investment support in the Kursk region, identifies trends that have led to changes in the structure of investment financing sources, as well as in the sectoral focus of investments. The problems that impede the flow of investment into the region were identified and measures to intensify work with investors were proposed.