FACTORS AND CONDITIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GLOBAL SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL CONVERGENCE OF THE LARGEST COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

Abstract

Background. The paper studies and systematizes the factors and conditions for the development of the global scientific and technological convergence of the world's largest economies. Materials and methods. The countries were compared according to the level of scientific and technological development, where the key factors used were: GDP per capita (PPP), thousand dollars per capita; the number of researchers engaged in R&D per thousand people of the population; expenditures on research and development, % of GDP. Based on the classic convergence assessment model using the compound interest formula, the calculation of the scientific and technological convergence of the largest countries in 2020 is given. The countries are grouped by the level of scientific and technological convergence within the framework of the Shell/DPM model. Results. Based on the calculations obtained, a logical-information model of industrial policy was built within the framework of the global scientific and technological convergence model. Conclusions. A model of global scientific and technological convergence has been developed, which differs from classical approaches in the composition of the key factors of the model (the use of GDP per capita according to PPP, the number of researchers involved in R&D, the amount of research and development costs), reflecting the specifics of the resource support for the transition to a new technological order, which makes it possible to carry out a typology of industrialized countries according to the level of scientific and technological development.

Keywords

• global scientific and technological convergence
• shell/dpm model
• gross domestic product
• r&d
• logical information model