Principles and conditions of convergent-induced structural shift

The article considers the formation of principles and conditions for a structural shift caused by the development of convergent technologies, and the Russian problems of the economic sector in which they are commercialized and diffused. In the Russian economy, there are no prerequisites for initiating a convergent-initiated structural shift, both in the framework of the catch-up industrialization model and due to re-industrialization as well, since the necessary reproductive, institutional, social conditions for technological modernization of the economy in the sixth, convergent-technological layer lack. The authors argue that at present there is a need for a detailed study of the theoretical foundations of the structural shift induced by interpenetration of technologies, network clustering of manufacturing industries, formation of large industrial structures of a new type in which technological convergence will build new production chains with sufficiently higher surplus value. Therefore, the analysis of principles and conditions for the implementation of a convergent-induced structural shift is of particular importance in the context of growing danger for Russia to lose its technological identity and deepen the gap in the level of social-and-economic development of advanced countries, in which economy structure has an expansion of convergent-technological industries. The result of this expansion should be the formation of new sectors and branches of economy, the major increase in labor productivity, the establishment of relations between the state and business of a new type, social restructuring. The article deals with the directions of structural policy, integrating the imperative of convergent technological development that implements the institute of high-tech public-and-private partnership. These include the following: “cultivation” of formal and informal institutions that provide generation of convergent technologies, their commercialization and diffusion; integration of the system of financing fundamental science and applied start-ups in the framework of high-tech public-and-private partnerships; implementation of measures to reduce the risks of long-term investment in innovative projects in the framework of scientific and industrial integration.

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