Financial strategy for modernization of fixed capital of Russian enterprises to strengthen their technological sovereignty
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The study focuses on the problem of maintaining Russia’s forward position in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The study is devoted to the development of scientific and practical recommendations for improving the financial support for the modernization of fixed capital of Russian enterprises. A review of all-Russian statistics of Rosstat for 2017-2022 is conducted and processed using trend and regression analysis methods. Capital expenditures on R D act as an indicator of financial support, and the involvement of enterprises in technological innovations, depreciation of their fixed capital and the intensity of its renewal act as an indicator of the results of technological upgrading of fixed capital. The financial perspective of technological modernization of Russian enterprises is revealed. A conclusion is made about the need to strengthen the technological sovereignty of business entities; a significant increase in financial support for their activities to modernize fixed capital is required. The study systematizes trends in the modernization of fixed capital of enterprises in Russia in 2017-2022, the imposition of which on future periods revealed the threat of Russia losing its global technological leadership. A model has been compiled that quantitatively characterized the technological response to scaling up the financing of modernization activities in Russia. Taking this into account, a financial strategy for the renovation of the fixed assets of Russian enterprises has been developed to strengthen their technological sovereignty in the period up to 2027. The strategy includes a target for increasing capital expenditures of organizations on RD and the expected return on it in the field of modernization of the fixed capital of firms in Russia in the period up to 2027. The developed strategy supports the implementation of the Concept of Technological Development of Russia until 2030, allowing to improve its financial support.
Source: RUDN Journal of Economics
Language: English
Subfield: Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4416627483