Imitation activity in the field of innovation and the military-industrial complex as a threat to the economic security of modern Russia

This article considers the current problems of development and innovation activities in the Russian Federation and the need to transfer the Russian manufacturing sector to modern high-tech rails. However, despite the fact that the country's top leadership emphasizes the course of innovative development as having no alternative, the relevant ministries, large state and non-state corporations, hinder implementation activities or imitate them still play an important role. For this reason, there are outright failures in the production of certain types of weapons, dual-use products, microelectronics, mechanical engineering and other important industries in the Russian Federation. The problem of imitation activity becomes urgent under modern conditions of political instability and military-technical risks which influence national and economic state security. The article reveals objective and subjective factors that caused high-tech activities to be pushed back in the recent past for many years.