This article deals with the formulation of a decision support system (DSS) in the field of regional development management. The review of existing approaches in this area presented here attests, on the one hand, to their diversity, and on the other hand allows us to draw conclusions about the need to address several methodological and practical issues of decision support in terms of innovative development of regions.
      Based on this, the goal of the research was to develop the concept of DSS to justify the parameters of an innovative development strategy for regional development based on adaptive mechanisms for coordinating the interests of economic agents.
      The methodology of the study is based on the synthesis of various approaches in the framework of integration into the structure of adaptive simulation models of problem-oriented knowledge bases with the mechanism of logical inference, as well as intelligent technologies for processing semi-structured information used to find solutions in the process of shaping and adjusting the parameters for managing innovative development of a region.
      The result of the study is a theoretical justification for developing problem-oriented DSS, including a description of the interrelated stages that determine the main design features of this tool. In the framework of the study, a conceptual scheme for implementing DSS in the field of managing innovative development of regions is proposed, and the key functional blocks of the proposed tools are described. In addition, the place of existing tools in the structure of the regional development management system is determined, and we show the possibilities of their use in the formation of forecast-planned assessments of the development of the region, as well as in the evaluation of the effectiveness of alternative management actions.
      The proposed tools will expand the possibilities of applying the methods of management theory and decision support, intelligent information technology, economic and mathematical methods and modern computer simulation technologies for strategic planning of socio-economic systems of macro- and meso-level. In practice, the tools may be of interest to public authorities in solving problems in in the formulation of innovative regional development strategies for Russian regions, the formation of medium-term forecasts and the justification of the parameters of social, economic and budgetary policy.