Evolution of Old Industrial Regions in the Economy of Russia
Evolution of Old Industrial Regions in the Economy of Russia
Natalia Yu. Sorokina
Candidate of economic sciences, associate professor, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Candidate of economic sciences, associate professor, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Yuri V. Latov
Doctor of economic sciences, candidate of economic sciences, professor, Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of economic sciences, candidate of economic sciences, professor, Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Doctor of economic sciences, candidate of economic sciences, professor, Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of economic sciences, candidate of economic sciences, professor, Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Journal of Economic Regulation, 2018, Vol. 9 (no. 1),
The article is devoted to the regularities of the evolution of old-industrial regions from the point of view of the theory of wave-like change of technological structures. Formation of the old- industrial regions is caused by a "failure" of development, when the region, successfully mastering the "old" technological wave, misses the beginning of the "new" technological wave. For the first time the phenomenon of the formation of the old- industrial regions manifested itself in imperial Russia, when the "mining engineering civilization" of the Urals and Altai, successful throughout almost the entire XVIII century, in the first half of the XIX century. Entered a state of protracted stagnation. "Explosion" of the number of old-industrial regions of Russia occurred in the last quarter of the twentieth century: the majority of industrial centers were synchronously formed during the Soviet industrialization of the 1930s–1950s. And therefore synchronously entered a state of qualitative lag from the latest technology. In modern Russia there is an internal heterogeneity of the old-industrial regions – in their composition territories can be identified that are at different stages of evolutionary development. The prospects of development as industrial-type territories are far from being all regions that currently belong to the old-industrial type. This will lead, in the long term, to a reduction in the number of industrial-type territories, which cannot be regarded as an unambiguously positive process, as it casts doubt on the success of the re-industrialization policy. Currently, within the group of old-industrial regions, the process of formation of new types of territories is actively under way, the emergence of which is associated with the spread of high technology and should lead to the strengthening of the role of industrial regions in ensuring post-industrial development of the country.
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