Abstract:

The article discusses some approaches to assessing the impact of changes taking place in the sys-tem of higher education on the social and economic processes of the regional development, to classifying direct and spillover effects in the framework of creating the programs of the strategic development of the region. A model of higher education development taking into account the spillover effects implementing the principles of the digital economy is proposed. A task to ana-lyze the cross-impact of various factors as well as their impact on the basic economic growth factors in the region is set in order to assess the impact of changes taking place in the develop-ment of higher education on the processes of social and economic development in the region.