From industry 4.0 to Society 5.0: challenges for sustainable competitiveness of Russian industry

Abstract

The globalization and digitalization of the world economy keep up to date the problems of attaining sustainable competitiveness for the Russian industrial enterprises. The purpose of investigation is to study the ways of solving these problems on the basis of integrated approach combining the key provisions of concepts of competitiveness of enterprises, sustainable development and information society. The authors have given consideration to interrelation of digitalization objectives and goals of sustainable development reflected in the concepts of Industry 4.0, Society 5.0. The problems of adaptation of the Russian industry to the changes in process and state support to these processes have been revealed. A necessity of shaping a comprehensive methodology under conditions of global digitalization of economy and society on the basis of investigating the genesis of theory and methodology of ensuring competitiveness and sustainable development has been substantiated.