The role of strategic management in the development of high-tech companies and ensuring their economic security

The article examines the strategic aspects of ensuring the economic security of high-tech companies of the Russian Federation with a view to their further development. The aim of the article is to determine the significance of the strategic planning factor for ensuring the economic security of high-tech companies and the further sustainable development of their business. The results of the study. The article analyzes key indicators and development trends of Russian high-tech companies. It is concluded that highly developed domestic technology companies have secured a high level of economic security. Possible strategic directions of further development of leading private high-tech companies of the Russian Federation are considered. It is shown that strategic management is a necessary tool to ensure their economic security and practically necessary for the further development and corporate growth of these companies. The necessity of developing high-tech companies specialized strategies for corporate growth, innovative development, access to foreign markets, which will allow them to realize the existing powerful export potential, is substantiated. Findings. The article concludes that the dynamic development of the institute of «national champions» and the NTI (National Technological Initiative) market participants in modern conditions is practically impossible without the use of strategic management tools.