Formation of Scientific and Industrial Complexes in the Digital Economy

Abstract

The rapid development of the digital economy determines the need to increase the scientific potential and innovation activity of domestic enterprises. The purpose of the article is to study topical issues of scientific and innovative and institutional development of production in Russia, as well as to substantiate the feasibility of forming scientific and industrial complexes in the industrial sector of the country. The object of research is research and production associations, large industrial enterprises and complexes, elements of innovative infrastructure operating in the digital environment. The scientific novelty of the work consists in determining the content of the scientific and industrial complex as a set of integrated enterprises, scientific organizations, design institutes and service assets that function as a single structure and form a common production and engineering cycle in order to produce competitive high-tech products. The list of advantages of the scientific and practical complex in relation to independent (autonomous) enterprises and other forms of market cooperation of economic entities is defined and justified. The applied significance of the work is to identify and analyze systemic problems that hinder the implementation of the economic, scientific and innovative potential of Russian industry. These include the crisis of the state infrastructure approach to innovative industrial development; the weakening of economic ties between industrial complexes and scientific organizations; reduced investment in enterprise modernization; and the dynamic change in business conditions under the influence of the digital economy. As the results of the research, the article presents a model subject-functional structure and an algorithm for the formation of the scientific and industrial complex, which ensure the integration of the potential of industrial, scientific and infrastructure organizations. The research materials can be used by the management of industrial enterprises and research organizations as a theoretical and methodological, information and analytical base for preparing and implementing reforms in the real sector of the domestic economy.