Socio-economic Ecosystems, Sustainable Economic Development and Digitalization of the Economy

Abstract

Modern economic science does not yet have a holistic theory explaining how to solve the problem of sustainable development of socio-economic systems in the context of new technologies and digitalization of the economy. In the article, the author explores new forms of business organization—the business ecosystem from the point of view of the role they play in the modern economy, how they affect the activities of economic entities and the sustainable development of the economy. The aim of the article is to study the ecosystem as an economic phenomenon, as a component of the country’s socio-economic system, as a possible driver of sustainable economic development in the context of the digitalization of the economy. To achieve this goal, the following tasks are solved in the article: the phenomenon of the ecosystem in the economy is studied from the point of view of various scientific approaches; factors that impede and contribute to sustainable economic development are investigated; explores the role of digital technology in ensuring sustainable economic development. The study is based on the use of general scientific and specific research methods, such as: analysis, synthesis method, method of rational reconstruction of science, comparative analysis method, generalization method and others. The method of comparative analysis revealed differences in views on the essence of economic ecosystems of domestic and foreign scientists; the synthesis method allowed us to identify approaches to the study of economic ecosystems in modern economic science; the method of rational reconstruction of scientific knowledge made it possible to establish differences in relation to knowledge as a factor in economic development in economic studies of eastern and western economic thought; The generalization method has become the basis for the formulation of research results.KeywordsBusiness ecosystemsKnowledge economyEconomics digitalizationSocio-economic ecosystemsEconomic policy of the stateJEL CodesA10P10P16