Impact of economic digital transformation on technologically leading enterprises development

In modern economy, technological leadership and digital technologies are becoming key factors of development both at the global level and at the level of individual countries and territories. The purpose of the study is to systematize business strategies of enterprises related to technological leadership and to study the impact of modern digital technologies on traditional technological leaders and their development strategies. In the theoretical part of the study, a review and systematization of domestic and foreign sources devoted to technological leadership, innovative development, and economic digital transformation have been carried out. In the empirical part of the study, technical efficiency has been calculated, and technological leaders have been identified for three Russian industries. Based on these leading enterprises’ websites content analysis, their use of modern digital technologies has been assessed. A conceptual model of technological leaders development in the context of economic digital transformation has been developed, a classification of technological leadership strategies has been given, and a correlation of these strategies with the types of innovations and their corresponding digital technologies has been proposed. The significant potential for digital technologies development among technologically leading enterprises and a set of constraints associated with the lagging digitalization of business in the country have been identified. The issues of stimulating business digitalization in Russia and the issues of small enterprises, which, due to limited financial and other resources, are lagging far behind in the digitalization process, have been described.

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