Assessing the effectiveness of achieving technological sovereignty

Achieving technological sovereignty should currently be considered as one of the main challenges for the Russian economy. The prospects for the socio-economic development of the state largely depend on an adequate response to it. The purpose of the work is to develop methodological aspects of assessing the effectiveness of achieving technological sovereignty. The analysis of scientific literature and forecasting and planning documents showed that the state pays priority attention to issues of scientific and technological development and support for high-tech industries. As a result of the studies, two main approaches to assessing the effectiveness of achieving technological sovereignty were identified – target and industry. Using the first approach, the effectiveness was assessed according to the degree of achieving the goals presented in the Concept of Technological Development in the context of federal districts. The analysis carried out on the basis of the target approach showed that the Volga Federal District is the leader, and the Siberian and Far Eastern Federal Districts are outsiders, which is largely due to the insufficient level of development of manufacturing industries. The industry analysis was performed for high-tech industries of pharmaceutical production and computer production. The analysis showed that the dynamics of production and investment of the type of activity “Computer production” are approximately at the level of manufacturing industries as a whole. At the same time, the type of activity “Pharmaceutical production” is characterized by fairly high growth rate of production and investment. Similar results were obtained when analyzing the profitability of sales and assets of these industries. Low values of the profitability indicator of computer production assets do not allow the industry to attract sufficient volumes of private investment, ensure a high level of investment and innovation activity and digital transformation of the economy based on the domestic technological base. The assessment of the competitiveness of high-tech industries is based on the analysis of the factors of employment dynamics using the “shift–components” method. The results obtained within the framework of this approach confirm the conclusions made earlier about the presence of internal unfavorable factors in the computer production industry that hinder its development.