TO THE THEORY OF A MODERNIZED AND REGULATED STRUCTURAL SHIFT IN THE ECONOMY


Taran E.A., Slesarenko E.V, Zhironkin S.A.

At present, the problem of modernizing the Russian economy acquires a structural sense, defining its technological and socio-economic identity, setting long-term trends in the involvement of production factors, inter-sectoral overflow of investments. The search for models of structural transformation of the economy is driven by the need to identify the most effective combination of market self-regulation and government regulation in overcoming the de-industrial structural shift. To this end, the article discusses the relationship between modernization of the economy and a positive structural shift in it, starting with profound changes in the reproductive system. The views on the role of the state in ensuring the structural transformation of the economy, taking into account the growing importance of incentives for entrepreneurial activity in the newest technological sectors are systematized. It is concluded that it is necessary to integrate the regulation of the reproductive, sectoral and technological structures of the economy into a single set of structural policies designed to ensure a positive structural shift of the modernization type. Keywords: modernization of the economy, structural shift, catching modernization, de-industrialization, structural policy, structural regulation. Highlights: the approaches to the study of regulated structural shifts were systemized, their modernization type was shown as a result of the systemic structural regulation of the economy; the connection between the structural shift in the economy and its modernization, which consists in profound changes in the reproductive system on sectoral, social, innovative and technological proportions, was presented; the possibility of combining innovation, sectoral, investment policy in a single complex of modernization structural policies was identified.

Ekaterina A. Taran Ekaterina, a senior lecturer of Tomsk Polytechnic University; Ekaterina V. Slesarenko, a senior lecturer of T.F. Gorbachev Kuzbass State Technical University (KuzSTU); Sergey A. Zhironkin, Doctor of Economics, Professor of Siberian Federal University, Professor of Tomsk Polytechnic University.


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