Educational platform of region’s digital modernization in Industry 4.0
ISSN: 1074-8121
Article publication date: 2 October 2019
Issue publication date: 16 October 2019
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to substantiate the importance of an educational platform for digital modernization of modern Russia’s regions in Industry 4.0 and to determine the functions and conceptual foundations of organization of regional market of educational services for execution of functions for stimulation of digital modernization of Russia’s regional economy.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors use the method of regression analysis for studying the influence of the indicators of adaptation of the market of educational services to the conditions of Industry 4.0 on efficiency of digital modernization of economy of the regions of the Volga Federal District of the Russian Federation as of late 2018-early 2019. The information and empirical basis of the paper is materials of the index “Digital Russia” of the Moscow School of Management “Skolkovo.”
Findings
It is determined that the market of educational services plays an important role in the process of transition of regions of modern Russia to Industry 4.0, performing two functions: training of personnel who are capable of working with digital technologies and training of personnel who are capable of creating new digital technologies at a region’s companies. As a result, the educational platform of digital modernization of the regional economy is formed. The developed conceptual foundations of an organization of the regional market of educational services for execution of its functions on stimulating the digital modernization of Russia’s regional economy allow for three variants of the process of training of personnel: within execution of the order of partner companies in a regional technological park, within participation of the region’s companies in a tender for training of personnel and within an independent initiation of the process of training of personnel by universities based on the results of digital marketing.
Originality/value
The offered authors’ recommendations ensure the following advantages during the creation and development of the educational platform of a region’s digital modernization in Industry 4.0: high marketing activity of universities, direct sequence of training of personnel and improved treatment of the effectiveness of regional universities as the ratio of efficiency in personnel training to expenditures, which stimulates competition between universities and maximization of effectiveness of educational platform of a region’s digital modernization in Industry 4.0.
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Acknowledgements
Retraction notice: The publisher of On the Horizon: The International Journal of Learning Futures wish to retract the article “Educational platform of region’s digital modernization in Industry 4.0” Elena N. Grishina, Elena A. Lysova, Irina P. Lapteva and Eleonora V. Nagovitsyna, which appeared in the special issue “Education as a platform for Industry 4.0: management and legal regulation” edited by Elena Popkova, On the Horizon, Vol. 27 Issue 3/4 (2019). It has come to our attention that there are concerns that the peer review process was compromised, and that as a result, the findings cannot be relied upon. The publisher of the journal sincerely apologises to the readers.
Citation
Grishina, E.N., Lysova, E.A., Lapteva, I.P. and Nagovitsyna, E.V. (2019), "Educational platform of region’s digital modernization in Industry 4.0", On the Horizon, Vol. 27 No. 3/4, pp. 180-186. https://doi.org/10.1108/OTH-07-2019-0040
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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