The conditionality of technological sovereignty on the change of technological modes

Abstract

The paper examines the relationship between technological sovereignty (TS) and shifts in technological paradigms (TPs). It demonstrates that achieving technological sovereignty in a modern economy requires consideration of the long-term patterns of techno-economic development characterized by successive technological paradigm shifts. The study argues that Russia has largely missed the window of opportunity for achieving a technological breakthrough within the sixth technological paradigm. Russia's core industries associated with the sixth technological paradigm remain at an embryonic stage of development, whereas leading economies, including the United States, China, and South Korea, had completed this stage before the 2008 global financial crisis. The paper concludes that achieving technological sovereignty requires a substantial increase in investment in research and development, together with the systematic adoption of effective institutional practices, particularly those developed in China.