Industrial Policy in Productive Area: Aspects of Ecosystem Development

Abstract

Today the ecosystem approach to the industry development is being discussed both in academic and research quarters and on the level of guidance systems of regions, industries, cluster structures and separate enterprises. Ecosystems of different types, productive, entrepreneurial, digital can change the object field of trends, steps and tools of industrial policy. In conditions of sharp geopolitical crisis that caused the necessity of intensification of innovative product output needed to ensure technological sovereignty of Russia within the shortest period of time, the role of state in regulating and coordinating industrial ecosystem development is growing. The article partly demonstrated the theoretical base of industrial ecosystems and analyzed the way industrial policy can be realized, which was illustrated by the Udmurt Republic. The author proceeds from the fact that industrial ecosystem in the region is being formed right now. He reviewed the present measures of support meant for regional actors of ecosystem that are implemented by bodies of executive power and institutions of development. The author came to the conclusion that it is necessary to set up in the region the Agency on innovation development and put forward a project of its organizational structure and competencies. He also pointed out to significance of digital platforming of industrial ecosystem of the region in order to improve effective interaction between regional actors and to ensure sustainability of ecosystem.