Research Fellow at the International Laboratory for Digital Transformation in Public Administration, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor Aisylu Ataeva acted as an official opponent at the defense of the dissertation of Irina Shorokhova on the topic «Influence of concentration effects on the innovative development of regions» for the degree of candidate of economic sciences. The defense was held at the meeting of the Dissertation Council 24.2.280.01 on economic sciences at the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education ‘Vladivostok State University’.