Russian Machine Tool Industry in the Context of Global Competition: Current State, Challenges and Development Prospects

Ensuring economic security and technological sovereignty are inextricably linked, as both factors affect the state’s resilience to external challenges and threats. The article analyses the industry of production of means of production, namely, machine tool industry. The degree of development of this industry has a direct impact on the level of competitiveness of the economy of any country in the world. The events of 2022, related to the special military operation, became a turning point. They gave an impetus to the expansion of production capacities. The role of sanctions’ imposition on the Russian economy is clearly reflected in the dynamics of the volume of production of metalworking machines in physical terms. In 2023, the growth in the production of machine tools amounted to 24,7%. However, it is mostly provided by increasing the production of basic machinery. During the analysis of the foreign machine tool industry, the downward trend in European leaders in the production of machine tools is identified. It confirms the importance of research and development work in order to create modern domestic technologies to accelerate economic growth. The issue of strategizing the industrial core of the national economy plays an important role in the context of the problem under consideration. Nowadays, the Russian system is characterized by the imperfection of the applied methodology for the development and implementation of industrial development strategies. The OTSW-analysis of the machine tool industry in Russia, which focuses on the initial identification of opportunities and threats, is proposed in the article. It allowed identifying a promising direction of the domestic industry development, related to ensuring domestic demand for machine tools thanks to the innovation activity growth and achievement of Russian Federation technological sovereignty. General and specific methods were used during the study. Common methods include comparative analysis, modelling, correlation analysis, as well as analysis of regulatory legal acts and statistical data. The OTSW-analysis of the Russian machine tool industry was used as a specific method.

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