Neo-industrialization of the Russian economy: Technological and digital development

Abstract

Ensuring the competitiveness of the Russian economy under an increasing market uncertainty, and growing negative impacts from global competitors necessitates innovative modernization of the Russian economy as an imperative of its transition to a new technological mode. This highlights the importance of implementing the neo-industrial transformations in the Russian economy, the large-scale application of breakthrough technologies in production, the development of the manufacturing industry on a new technological basis, the increase in the share of high-tech industries and in production of the new generations of goods ("products of the markets of the future") using the potential of the NBIC–convergence. The necessity, main opportunities and current problems of digitalization of the Russian economy are substantiated. The authors believe that the digital economy program realization can offset to some extent the negative impact of sanctions on the future neo-industrial development of the country. The updated mechanisms to stimulate the new industrial development in Russia – technology platforms and related innovative clusters are pointed out. Technology platform is a complex mechanism for transforming relations of the disparate participants into a consolidation relationship aimed at a common result achieving in the neo-industrialization process. The technology platforms' potential to generate clusters corresponding to its profile, based on the joint use of the innovative technologies is mentioned. The necessity of the theoretical justification of the content and trends of neo-industrialization as well as the formation of an appropriate regulatory and legal framework for its realization in Russia is proved.