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The modern universities role in the formation of the digital wave of Kondratiev’s long cycles
https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2019-12-123-140
Abstract
The article presents the results of the study of the universities’ transformation problems as a source-integrator-translator of new knowledge and technologies in conditions of digital transformation of the economy. It is shown that the modern stage of scientific and technological progress does not contradict Kondratiev’s concept of long cycles, but has its own characteristics. The hypothesis about the significance of the influence of universities on the formation of an upward wave of long cycles is confirmed on a long historical period. The current key aspects of changes in the interaction of higher education and the economy as a whole are analyzed taking into account dual problems: advanced training and delayed generalization by universities of actual transformations of the economy. The vision of the mission of the classical university (digital literacy in society) and the technical university (the formation of basic professional competences of modern engineer and researcher) is presented. Recommendations on the need for platform solutions in the organization of interactions in the field of education, on changing models of university activities taking into account the development of EduTech are given.
Keywords
university,
Kondratiev long cycles,
digital economy,
knowledge economy,
modernization of education,
EduTech
JEL: I20; I23; I28
About the Authors
Petr I. Kasatkin
MGIMO University
Russian Federation
Moscow
Russian Federation
Moscow
Julia A. Kovalchuk
MGIMO University; Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)
Russian Federation
Moscow
Russian Federation
Moscow
Igor M. Stepnov
MGIMO University; Financial University under the Government of Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Moscow
Russian Federation
Moscow
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For citations:
Kasatkin P.I., Kovalchuk J.A., Stepnov I.M. The modern universities role in the formation of the digital wave of Kondratiev’s long cycles. Voprosy Ekonomiki. 2019;(12):123-140. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2019-12-123-140
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