DIGITAL INTEGRATION AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY: ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN EXPERIENCE

The article is devoted to the study of digital integration (DI) in industry in Germany and South Korea, as well as the practices of stimulating its development when implementing industrial policies in these countries to consider their experience in Russia.
The purpose of the paper is to determine the possibilities of using foreign practices in the management and development of digital intelligence in the industrial policy of our country. The main methods of the research are the content analysis, the method of comparative economics, as well as the general scientific theoretical and empirical methods. The object of the study is the industrial sector in Germany and South Korea, i.e. the countries of the «digital leaders» group, identified as per the Digital Intelligence Index.
In the article the author examines the ways of the DI development in the industrial sector of two countries and the effectiveness of the policies pursued in them to support this process. The limited scope of DI coverage of the industrial sector is noted, the specifics of the participants in these processes and the requirements for the subjects of their management are identified.
The results of the study are the conclusions about the viability of state support for DI in the industry of the two countries, despite the limited results of the economic and political courses conducted in them; about the shortcomings accompanied the development and implementation of government efforts; as well as the advisability to consider them when implementing industrial policy in Russia DI to develop, incl. a differentiated approach to the involvement of different industrial subjects in DI, the need to prepare relevant government structures to manage this process and coordinate their efforts among themselves. The conclusions drawn have a theoretical and practical orientation and can be used in the activities of authorities at different levels of governance and in the economic performance of domestic industrial organizations.

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