Problems of the development of the digital economy at the regional level

Abstract

In order to identify and study existing problems objectively hindering the development of digitalization of regional economies, in the article the analysis of the intensity of the development of the digital economy in Russia for the period 2010–2017 years. On the basis of the expert survey and subsequent procedure results in ranking as the most important problems for the development of the digital economy at the regional level were identified: (1) the outflow of skilled personnel in the field information and communication technologies from the regions, characterized by relatively low level of digitalization, occurs at both the national and the global level; (2) limited the amount of demand at the regional level, to a greater or lesser extent manifested in all market segments (corporate, Government, households).