Problems of digital development and industrial diversification: legal and economic aspects

The initial conditions for digital transformation and modernization of Russian industrial production are creating negative and positive factors. The negative factors include the de-industrialization of Russia, its high technological dependence on imports, and insufficient investment. The positive factors are the high intellectual level of specialists; maintaining, and in some fundamentally new directions, advanced positions in the defense industries; abundant and unique raw materials and territorial resources and opportunities for industrial and digital infrastructure development; maintaining the potential preservation of opportunities for accelerated solutions to the problems of intellectual property development and commercialization and for the integration of the considerable potential of scientific and technological developments into the digital transformation of industrial production. Methods: the research is based on logical methods of analysis and induction, empirical methods of description and interpretation. Purpose: to determine negative and positive factors in the digitalization and modernization of industry of the Russian Federation. Results: the authors identify the main problems, drivers and points of growth for accelerated development and diversification in this area of the economy, and they formulate some proposals aimed at creating legal and economic conditions conducive to solving the identified problems.