Digitalization of the economy and barriers to entry into high-tech industries
The article considers approaches to forecasting the future on the basis of the fact that the economy is becoming digital, in this case, we look for entry barriers into high-tech industries, including their dual nature, the benefits they provide and the risks they carry. Ten main barriers are identified: intellectual property, marketing strategy, market power of giants, infrastructure, political confrontation, national security, life cycle of high-tech goods, staffing, global value chains, technological saturation. The methodological basis of the research is based on the General scientific methods: the analysis of domestic and foreign literature on the problems of digital economy and the entry barriers into the industry; the generalization of the knowledge and systemically structured integration of the proposed barriers. Main results: •The Digitalization of the economy carries a change in the traditional barriers of the entry into the industry, as the physical boundaries of production, storage, trade and any other traditional principles of doing business disappear. •The main barrier to free economic space will be the intellectual property. By now, it is already included in the trade turnover alongside goods and services, and every year its importance grows more and more. •The main risks that the economy of the future carries are disharmony and reduction of the creative component Of the human Creator, the world economic order will change in the near future, so it will integrate all social, economic, political and other systems.