Features and comparative characteristics of technological transformation in Singapore and Japan
Technological transformation is considered in the article as a result and simultaneously a process of change of technological modes. The current state of international economic development is characterized by the leading world economies undergoing a series of such changes in technological modes, first - against the background of the industrial revolution, then - of the information revolution. The current state of the world economy is characterized by the clustering of countries according to the intensity of technological transformation - while the world leaders are mastering the elements of Industry 4.0 (as the next phase of transformation), a number of countries are not able to fully integrate into the global processes of technological transformation. The results of this clustering are naturally manifested in the concentration of promising technologies, patents, competencies (in fact - assets, resources) in a relatively small group of countries, which lock into themselves the world flows of capital, goods, services and economically active population. As a consequence, the processes of creating products and services with high added value are closed in the loop of economic leaders, which positively affects the budgetary capacity of governments, the growth of the population's income, quality and standard of living. In such circumstances, it is particularly relevant to study the experience of countries that are the most advanced in technological transformation (Singapore and Japan were chosen as such), in order to import effective solutions into the practice of public and corporate governance of the Russian Federation.