Economic Benefits and Costs of Platform Solutions in the Modern Development of Natural Resources of the Russian Arctic

Abstract

The article describes a new platform business model for the development of natural resources in the Arctic, which had emerged in recent decades and replaced the conveyor model of large industrial mining plants of the Soviet era. Using the example of new resource projects in the Russian Arctic, we analyze its main advantages associated with high adaptability, labor productivity, innovation, widespread use of artificial intelligence technologies, and the disadvantages associated with extraterritoriality and social alienation from the territory of presence. The role of the state in these conditions is analogous to the role that the branch trade unions had played in the industrial era: it is to protect labor over capital. We are talking about the formation of the state regulation of corporate social responsibility in the Arctic, about the use of the institution of social license for the company, which has proved its efficiencyabroad, partnership agreements with the municipal and regional authorities of the Arctic territories. Contemporary priorities of the public policy in the Arctic, which are aimed at raising the level of real incomes of its residents to the national average and helping to attract private investment in the Russian Arctic, do not in any way work to correct the imbalances between labor and capital arising in the platform business model.