The impact on the Russian criminal law of the evolution of certain areas of innovation (on example of the development of biotechnology)

The paper attempts to analyze the effect that various directions and types of innovative activity have on law. Changes in social relations in recent years, as is commonly thought, are associated with the development of technologies, robotics, artificial intelligence, digitalization, genetic engineering, etc. Taking for granted and sometimes superficially studying these trends, the legislator fixes and details such concepts in the legislation. At the same time, no analysis has been carried out and no answers have been given to the questions: how are the indicated terms and directions for changing social relations related to each other, is there something in common that allows them to be combined into a more systemic component? According to the author, the domestic legislator in the current Criminal Code does not take into account the recent trends resulting from innovative activities, namely the development of telemedicine technologies and the possibility of selling medicines via the Internet, when differentiating responsibilities. It seems that all the indicated changes and innovations in social relations are associated with one process, namely, innovative development. Moreover, digitalization, informatization, the development of biotechnology, robotics, etc. are components of one more general and unified process, namely the development of innovation. The author investigated these changes using the example of criminal law and in relation to such a direction of innovative activity as the development of biotechnology.