The effects of convergence of regional systems in the digital economy

Abstract

The present study is devoted to the extremely important at this time problem of improving the management of the information space in the region under the transformation of the world economic paradigm, which consists in the digitization of economic relations of economic entities. In constructing the methodological base of the research, the basic principles of information theory were used, as well as the authors' earlier research on this topic. One of the key features of the study is the use of the entropic approach used in the first half of the 20th century by C. Shannon, in combination with the previously identified and proven author's approach to calculating the synergistic effect from the convergence of information spaces that takes place in the digital economy. On the basis of theoretical and methodological methods, author's model is developed, on the basis of which a surface characterizing the decrease in the entropy of clusters of information systems in the regional information space created during the convergence is constructed using three-dimensional modeling. The patterns of this decrease are shown, as well as practical approaches to the calculation of the quantitative characteristics of the processes occurring. In the study, based on the revealed regularities, taking into account general scientific interdisciplinary methods, including entropy and synergetic approaches, it is shown that the obtained results characterize the current changes in the sectoral economic structure, and the proposed methodological approaches are appropriate for managing the processes of regional informatization during the transition to a digital economy.