Nanotech Innovations—The Basis of Efficient Energy Transfer

Abstract

AbstractThe relevance of the research is due to the significance of breakthrough nanotech developments that, for the last decade, are actively applied in the world economy, both in high-tech and in traditional industrial sectors (especially in green energy). There has been a steady tendency to the inculcation of nanotechnology primarily as a promising source of sustainable economic growth of leading countries in the contemporary world of open innovations. The goal of the study is to consider the process of nanotechnologization in the system of international economic relations, and specifically, in the field of oil and gas production, in transition to the sixth technological structure. The following research tasks are set to consider the promising resources of nanotech in the sectors of the world economy; to identify new growth points in the real sector of the economy; and to determine modern nanotechnological trends in the oil and gas complex. According to the goal of the research, scientific methods such as analysis, synthesis, comparative analysis, and system approach were used. Institutional analysis let us describe market architecture of nanotechnologies. Results obtained as follows: (1) The further achievements of nanoscience will provide a conceptual contribution to the world industrial production and revolutionary change in most technological methods and value chains with increasing returns. In this regard, the total number of patent applications filed and patents received by the flagships of national nanoindustry systems is substantial. (2) The points of sustainable growth of the real sector of the world economy and separation of its traditional branches in the new economic normality conditions lie in the modernization of these industries through the accumulated improvements of nanotechnology. Quite competitive and the works are deployed in this direction in Russia. (3) Moreover, the serious innovative potential for implementation and commercialization of nanoelaborations remains in the fuel and energy complex in the transition period to the sixth technological structure.KeywordsConvergence of techno-economic paradigmsMachinery constructionElectronicsArtificial intelligenceInformaticsEnergeticsOil and gas productionJEL ClassificationO31O34O25O14