The Digital Economy of the Region: a Distributed Infrastructure of the Industry Ecosystem

• Main Authors: Igor Grishin, Rena Timirgaleeva
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: FRUCT 2019-04-01
• Series: Proceedings of the XXth Conference of Open Innovations Association FRUCT
• Subjects: digital economy; Industry 4.0; digitalization; platform of digital products and services
• Online Access: https://fruct.org/publications/abstract24/files/Gri.pdf

The paper analyzes the main processes occurring in the digital economy worldwide and shows the place and role of the Russian Federation in the implementation of these processes. The task of the study was to develop proposals for the formation of the sectoral ecosystem of the region's digital economy. It is shown that in the rating of countries introducing technologies for digitalization of economic relations, Russia is in the group of "novice leaders" (the level of digitalization is higher than the level of economic development) but so far lags behind the leading countries, such as South Korea, the Netherlands and China. The article substantiates the conclusion that it is advisable to build a virtual environment on the basis of university data centers constructed on the basis of new principles of the innovative engineering solution that allows it to scale and connect new participants, if required, without additional investments. The digital products and services platform is an essential element of the ecosystem of the digital regional economy and allows linking resources and consumers of products and services. The set of the most important tasks that should be solved while creating the organizational and technological platform of the regional sectoral ecosystem include creating a cloud for individual sectors of the regional economy, launching cloud-based industry services and individual projects, digitalizing the life cycle in the cloud, developing an environment of business tools and creating an integrated data center systems. The proposed structure of the sectoral ecosystem of the region's digital economy is universal and can be applied to most industries in different regions of the country.