ROLE OF HIGHER SCHOOL IN THE FORMATION OF THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

The authors carry out modeling of long-term economic cycles of the national economy and analyze on this basis the system-forming factors that generate its phase shifts. Realized assessments based on the economic and mathematical modeling methods have made it possible to determine the prospects and time horizons for the transition of the Russian economy to the channel of the fourth industrial revolution, to carry out factor analysis on this basis and to reveal the role of higher education in the system of future transformations. The results of the research made it possible to identify the main problems in the system of higher education in Russia in terms of limiting the pace and quality of development of the Russian economy in accordance with emerging global principles and mechanisms of economic growth. The method of conducting the research is based on the use of statistical analysis tools for a wide range of data characterizing the institutional and market potential of national economy for the period from 1962 to 2017 as well as descriptive analysis tools, which revealed the main shortcomings in the system of higher infrastructure, economic stability education, limiting the prospects for formation of economic development rates in accordance with the identified next cycle of long-term development of the Russian economy. The novelty of the research consists of the developed conceptual approach of determining the key directions for development of higher education, taking into account the global trends in the transformation of reproduction processes and projected phases of economic transformations in the national economic system