National Technology Initiative within the framework of industrial policy implementation and regional development

In modern conditions of socio-economic, political-legal and administrativeeconomic development, as well as the geopolitical position of Russia, National Technology Initiative (NTI) can act as a tool for modernization and digitalization of the national economy of Russia as part of industrial policy and regional development. The high priority of the task of systematic implementation of the import substitution strategy determines the relevance of efficient use of all available mechanisms, including NTI. The initiative presumes that innovative ideas that are born and implemented with the help of NTI projects will have large-scale positive effects on the development of Russia in the near future. Such effects include: the leading positions of domestic companies in the new world markets, improvements for the quality of life of the country’s population, digital reindustrialization of the Russian economy, increase of the number of innovative products in the country’s exports, etc. The development of NTI requires new, innovative approaches in the organizational, managerial, economic, social, law enforcement and other spheres of public life. The authors analyze the tools and mechanisms of industrial policy aimed at stimulating innovative activity in the regions, and also consider the role and place of NTI in Russian industrial policy and as a solution for spatial development problems.

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