Post-normality as a window of strategic opportunities for industrial development in Russia

The author substantiates in the article that the period of global changes of a systemic and structural nature, forming new parameters, factors and conditions that create turbulence and increase uncertainty, should be perceived for Russia not as a new normality, but as a period of postnormality. It is shown that, taking into account national interests and goals, this period should be used as a window of industrial strategic opportunities to strengthen national and economic independence and form technological sovereignty. Special attention is focused on the formation of a solid industrial core through the processes of new industrialization or reindustrialization of the Russian economy, which can contribute not only to the transition to a new normality, but also to its active formation. It clarifies that the process of reindustrialization will require the mobilization and use of available resources and competitive advantages, as well as a strategic approach. To this purpose, as a theoretical and methodological basis for systemic reindustrialization, the author suggests using the methodology of industrial strategizing, which is one of the directions of the Russian scientific school of strategizing, the founder and leader of which is Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor Vladimir L. Kvint. The competent application of the methodology of industrial strategizing will not only form a solid industrial core, ensuring technological sovereignty, but will also open up opportunities for Russia to become one of the key translators of the formation of a new system of “norms”.

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