Analysis of Digital Economy Indicators and Their Impact on the Innovative Activity of Russian Organizations

Abstract

Digital technologies being the main driving force of the innovative development of the country's economy as a whole for the past five years. Digital transformation, influencing all spheres of life, including organizations of various types of economic activity, and penetrating into all financial and economic processes, contributes to systemic technological breakthroughs as a result of increasing the level of innovative activity of subjects. However, the use of digitalization tools in organizations requires appropriate competencies of human resources. The purpose of this study is an economic analysis and comparison of the parameters of digitalization, provision of digital competencies and innovation activity of enterprises (organizations) of the Russian Federation in the context of their industry affiliation. The paper analyzes the key indicators of digitalization of business in the Russian Federation and identifies current trends in this area. The assessment of the level of provision of Russian organizations with specialists in the field of ICT is given. According to the results of a comparative and correlation analysis of the indicators of the proportion of ICT specialists and the innovative activity of organizations in the sectoral context as a whole, a noticeable (on the Cheddock scale) causal relationship between the indicators under consideration was revealed. The results obtained can be used both for further scientific research of digital and innovative issues, and in practice in order to substantiate management decisions by enterprise management and public authorities.