Russian Model of the New Industrialisation: Formulating the Problem

The paper frames the arguments for the new industrialisation in Russia, which will enable the country to overcome its technological backwardness and increase the rates of economic growth up to the world average. The authors analyse the programmes of Russia's strategic development drawn up by domestic economists and experts as well as consider the long-term government programme “National Technological Initiative”, which may become a prerequisite for a strategy of the new industrialisation. The paper concludes that despite various treatments of the new industrialisation the economists are unanimous about existing necessity to change the current model of the country's socioeconomic development and absence the alternative to the new industrialisation. The authors prove that the term “Russian model of industrialisation” should be introduced into scholar literature arguing that the model possesses a number of specific traits, particularly, the role of the state structures is significant, the process is reliant only on the country's own resources, formation of the industrial production sector occurs independently..