Dynamics of structural changes in the economies of foreign countries and Russia and the development of convergent technologies

In the present work, the authors propose a methodological approach for modeling the processes of economic growth of territory is formed by the development of convergent technologies. Taking into account the correlation analysis, indicators that describe to impact of global information technologies on changes in the structure of the economy were selected: the cost of purchasing computers and the cost of purchasing software. The assessment of structural changes in the regional economy was carried out using the coefficient of structural changes by K. Gatev, which was considered concurrently with the measures of the growth rates of indicators of the information technology sector. This study revealed that there were the largest changes in the structure of indicators in the Russian Federation in 2010 and 2011. These changes were lag behind in two years in comparison with foreign countries, where themselves changes had a radical view and value of the coefficient was much higher than in these countries.