High-tech Industries of Russia: Current Situation and Development Trends

摘要

Within the scope of this work, it was found out that there is no unified methodology for assessing the development of high-tech industries both in foreign and domestic practice, and accepted in the modern literature classification of the industry as highly technological industry is rather conditional. We took under study the most common approaches to the classification of industries according to the level of their manufacturability. The work is based on the classification of high-tech industries, which was adopted by the Rosstat (the Federal State Statistics Service) in 2014 in accordance with the recommendations of the Eurostat and the OECD (the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) and the national peculiarities of the functioning of these industries. We have regarded the role of innovations and innovative activity in the effective development of high-tech industries in Russia, as well as the possibility of long-term economic growth. The efficiency of efforts to develop innovations and innovative activity in the Russian Federation, as well as the current state of high-tech branches of domestic industry were estimated. Having analyzed the state of high-tech industries in Russia, we determined strategic problems and formulated the directions of their solution.