Technological Development as a Factor of Ensuring the National Security

Abstract:

The high technological level of the economy is one of the conditions for the effectiveness of economic growth. This level in the article is proposed to be considered from two sides. On the one hand, it ensures the sustainability of economic development. On the other hand, it creates prerequisites for technological and, in general, economic security of the country. Due to the crisis development (since 2008), the authors suggest to consider the second direction as a priority. Technological development is seen as a factor in ensuring national economic security. A promising economic model is built on the ability to generate innovations, develop and introduce new technologies into production. These abilities must be realized within the country. This avoids its dependence on external actors. In support of this idea, the authors have established a correlation between national competitiveness, the level of socio-economic development of the country and its technological level. A technological innovation requires the formation of a national innovation-technological ecosystem. This ecosystem covers the real sector of the economy, as well as the social sphere (education, culture, health, etc.). To form such an ecosystem, national re-industrialization is necessary. Reindustrialization requires measures for its resource, methodological and ideological support. The article substantiates the composition of such measures (the use of national financial reserves, the expansion of the practice of program management, the legal provision of re-industrialization, ensuring the availability of credit resources for the modernization of the fixed capital of industrial enterprises, etc.) and the positive consequences of their implementation.