Технологические драйверы социализации экономики индустриального региона

Abstract

The authors reveal key technological factors and drivers for socializing the economy of an industrial region. They focus on the Ural macroregion and prove that the processes of socializing an industrial region's economy are closely related to the development of industrial production, which constitutes the 'genetic core' of the economy for this type of territories. The article substantiates and demonstrates that technological drivers of an industrial region's economy socialization are closely related to the digitalization of industry, which is initiated, to a great extent, by traditional core sectors of the Ural economy (military-industrial complex, metallurgy, mining, mechanical engineering, etc.). The development of 'end-to-end technologies' (digital, additive, information, nanotechnologies, Internet of Things, Big Data, artificial intelligence) constitutes a major driver for an industrial region's economy socialization. The authors pay special attention to the processes of digitalization of the region's economy.