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World Innovative Digital Expansion: Characteristics of the Moment

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This article is devoted to the development of innovative digital military technologies. The authors set themselves the goal of deepening the understanding of the most important areas of the global technological transformation, as well as the complexity and interdependence of the main critical and emerging military-oriented technologies in the main centers of the digital innovation shift. The financial support and the most important features of R&D development in the United States, Russia, and China are analyzed, and the strategic nature of their competition is emphasized. Particular attention is paid to key digital functionalities, especially artificial intelligence and quantum computing. It is noted that the desire of the United States for global technological and military-technical leadership in the context of dynamic changes in technological development and, accordingly, the emergence of not only new opportunities but also new challenges spurs on the study of global innovation and digital development.

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Notes

  1. Domains are a term that refers to the types of armed forces and is increasingly used in the foreign military literature and official publications, although this concept has not yet been defined doctrinally.

  2. “Manufacturing on demand” is a new concept of production in the context of the intensification of digitalization processes and the development of technologies such as, for example, 3D printing, laser cutting, etc. Products are manufactured only if necessary and in the quantity (volume) required at the moment. In the foreign literature, the term “manufacturing on-demand” has already acquired a stable character.

  3. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

  4. СHIPS, Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors.

  5. Note that information and communication technologies belong to the previous stage of the industrial cycle.

  6. The corresponding agreement was signed between the digitalization company for the nuclear industry Tsifrum and the Russian Quantum Center.

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This article was supported within the project “The Postcrisis World Order: Challenges and Technologies, Competition, and Cooperation” under a grant of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation program for research projects in priority areas of scientific and technological development (agreement no. 075-15-2020-783).

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Pankova Lyudmila Vladimirovna, Dr. Sci (Econ.), is Head of the Department of Military-Economic Security Research at the Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS. Ol’ga Vladimirovna Gusarova is a Researcher in the Department of Military-Economic Security Research at the Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS.

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Pankova, L.V., Gusarova, O.V. World Innovative Digital Expansion: Characteristics of the Moment. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 92, 617–628 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331622050124

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