Technology Investment and New Global Growth Architecture: A Case Study of Russian Technological Sovereignty
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https://doi.org/10.63290/jhmsr.v2.i2.44Keywords:
Technological Sovereignty, Digital Economy, Artificial Intelligence, Russia, Global GrowthAbstract
The research article explores the theory that strategic investment in technology is the main driving force of transformation that will determine 21st century economic and geopolitical structures across the globe. Going beyond the conventional factors of production, this paper suggests that national competitiveness and resilience are now characterized by control over algorithms, data and digital ecosystems. This study is done as a qualitative, single-case study to examine the explicit strategy of technological sovereignty of the Russian Federation. Through the analysis of the main policy documents, the program of the Digital Economy of the Russian Federation and the National Strategy of the Development of Artificial Intelligence, as well as official words of prominent politicians, the paper will discuss how one of the nation-states forms an internally strong and prospect-oriented model of development. The results indicate a multi-dimensional national approach that includes investments in digital infrastructure, artificial intelligence (AI), human capital building (STEM education), and the implementation of technology to achieve sustainability. Russia illustrates a holistic model in which the technological prowess is not only regarded as an economic instrument but is a national security, social development, and world power necessity in the growing multipolar world. The article concludes by saying that although the process of sovereignty has its own challenges in terms of global cooperation, strategic prioritization of technology cannot be ignored in countries that want to find their way through the complexity of the new global growth architecture.
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