Technologies as the Key Resources of Modern Regions: Digital Inequality and Solutions for Technological Conflicts in the Regional Economy
Technology, Society, and Conflict
ISBN: 978-1-80262-454-0, eISBN: 978-1-80262-453-3
Publication date: 16 September 2022
Abstract
This chapter is aimed at reflecting technologies as the key resources of modern regions, identifying the essence and modelling the digital inequality of Russian regions, as well as forming the methodological foundation for the consistent resolution of conflicts in the regional economy of Russia. Through the example of the regional economy of modern Russia, the method of the variation analysis is used for the analysis of differences between regions that are individually investigated in relation to the level of digitalization, and their regression dependence on the level of technological development is determined. As a result, it has been found that Russian regions are characterized by a number of conflicts due to their multi-aspect inequality; these include innovation conflicts, investment conflicts and quality of life conflicts. The abovementioned conflicts are mainly caused by differences in the provision of technological resources to regions (in their digitalization). The novelty and fundamental significance of this chapter consist in the clarification of the cause of spatial inequality through differences in the provision of technological resources to regions. The unique character of this chapter consists in justification of the technology factor of the emergence of inequality and conflicts of regions. This chapter proves that technological inequality exacerbates other aspects of inequality and conflicts of regions. Originality and practical relevance of this chapter consist in the evaluation of the prospects and development of recommendations for conflict management in Russian regions through overcoming differences in their technological support and accelerating the pace of their digitalization.
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Acknowledgements
The research was performed within the grant of the President of the Russian Federation for state support for the leading scientific schools of the Russian Federation (NSh-239.2022.2) Academic leadership in the space of development of transprofessional identity and formation of the new economy market in the conditions of digitalization and regionalization of higher education.
Citation
Kalinin, P.A., Tolmachev, A.V., Tikhonovskova, S.A. and Lifanov, P.A. (2022), "Technologies as the Key Resources of Modern Regions: Digital Inequality and Solutions for Technological Conflicts in the Regional Economy", Popkova, E.G. and Chatterji, M. (Ed.) Technology, Society, and Conflict (Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development, Vol. 30), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 27-36. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1572-832320220000030004
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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