The article is devoted to the issues of the sustainable development of such a representative of the ecosystem as a special economic zone. The subject of the study is the organizational interactions that arise between resident companies, clusters within the technopolis and the management company. The conducted research is aimed at determining the criteria for the expediency of selecting participants in the ecosystem, identifying indicators for assessing the effectiveness of their joint functioning. The objectives of the study were to identify key trends in the formation of business ecosystems; to formulate the principles of managing the sustainability of the ecosystem, to determine the levels of sustainability and indicators for measuring it. The methodology of scientific research is based on the assessment of the digital maturity of business processes, the theory of interaction between organizations and the platform approach. Statistical processing methods of reports on management companies, grouping and rating the attractiveness of technoparks for investors were used during the study. The article formulates the principles of sustainability of the business ecosystem, defines the levels and indicators for their assessment. The results of the study are addressed to employees of management companies of special economic zones, heads of executive authorities responsible for the development of industrial policy. The development of research in the field of sustainable development of business ecosystems is related to the consideration of information security issues for agents of the digital economy.

Research on the business processes digital transformation is of great interest among Russian and foreign scientists. The domestic economy’s development pace at the present stage is largely associated with widespread digital transformations. Over the past decade, Russia’s innovation performance, and the pace of digitalisation, has remained at a satisfactory level, which is not in line with the global trend. Branches of the economy, corporations, and small economic entities face the problem of adapting to the digital world. In the context of the upcoming economic crisis, the growing number of threats to economic sustainability, the task of increasing the pace of digitalisation is most acute. The study considers the main technologies in the concept of scientific and technological development of the Russian Federation, analyses the digitalisation tools and key sectors of the domestic economy. Based on the information provided, recommendations for the business digital transformation have been formulated. Due to the relevance of the topic, the results of the study have formed the basis of subsequent researches.

The growing need for digitalisation of business processes determines the competitiveness of companies in the global and Russian markets. In the current conditions, the importance of reducing physical labor for employees, organizing the working atmosphere and, of course, automating important parts of business processes are the main factors in the life of a modern enterprise. However, the implementation of digital transformation, especially in the current conditions of partial economic isolation, is a complex and ambiguous process. Within the framework of the study, methods for assessing the level of digital maturity of enterprises in the manufacturing sector will be considered. Based on the information provided, recommendations for the digital transformation of business, based on an assessment of the level of readiness for transformation will be formulated.