Research and Educational Centers as a Matrix of Institutional Collaboration Between Business, Science, and Education in the Context of Digital Transformation in Society

Abstract

The global economic and social changes prompted by digital transformation are a comprehensive process that alters both the structure and image of traditional goods and services markets. As the digital paradigm has been seeing enormously rapid changes, and since emerging digital jobs have not been assigned with sustainable requirements and definitive skills set as of yet, there is a pressing need to introduce new forms of interaction between economic agents. More specifically, cooperation today is able to stand in as the organizational form to fully cater to the requirements of economical digitalization, globalization and comprehensive economical integration, it can "blend" national and faith-based features with the new forms of online and offline education. The article shows the efficiency of Research and Education Center (RECs), them being a matrix of institutional collaboration between business, science and education set against the backdrop of digital transformation in society.