Authors: Yakov P. Silin, Yevgeny G. Animitsa and Natalya V. Novikova

Abstract:

The paper discusses the essence of the concepts “new industrialization”, “industrial revolution” as well as the issues of forming and developing the productions of the fifth and sixth technological modes in the economic space of Russia and Ural region. The authors prove that the implementation of the concept of new industrialization in Ural region can be the most relevant response to the challenges of external environment, because the region has all indispensable prerequisites for this: necessary human capital, high concentration of scientific-technological, production, institutional, infrastructural and other important resources. New industrialization in Ural region will allow the region to create a balanced, independent from outside influence regional economy, which is oriented towards activating internal sources of development, utilizing the potential of multi-faceted infrastructure, and advantages of the “middle” region. In addition, new industrialization will enable Ural region to create conditions for regional economy’s breakthrough to the sixth technological mode; accumulate, retain and enhance “postindustrial potential”; support rejuvenation of traditional industries; find ways out from the maze of approaching “new normal”.

Keywords: industrialization; industrial revolution; technological mode; region; high-technology production; nanotechnology.

For citation:

Silin Ya.P., Animitsa Ye.G., Novikova N. V. Pered vyzovami tret'ey volny industrializatsii: strana, region [Facing the Challenges of the Third Wave of Industrialization: Country, Region]. Izvestiya Uralskogo gosudarstvennogo ekonomicheskogo universiteta – Journal of the Ural State University of Economics, 2016, no. 3 (65), pp. 14–25.