The article clarifies the contents of such phenomena as the development of “sustainable (green) industry”, “sustainable (green) energy”. Reveals their place in the unfolding processes of the fourth industrial revolution. Emphasized the main trends in “green” modernization in the production process of companies. Identified economic, environmental and social benefits as a result of carried out different scales of European and American industrial companies environmentally and socially responsible industrial policy on the principle of “Cradle to Cradle system”. Presented and analyzed examples of activities of specific companies engaged in a gradual transition to the principles of “green economy”. The article considers examples of international regulation, aimed at the development of sustainable development and the creation of conditions for the industrial revolution acceleration In this regard, significant to note the prospect of development of the corporate sector towards the wider application of renewable energy sources.

As of today the exports of services from Russia take a small part in the total volume of Russia’s goods and services export. The biggest success was attained in the exports of high-technology services of State Atomic Energy Corporation “Rosatom” and in the exports of software in IT industry. The potential of the exports of the other types of high-technology and intellectual services has not been totally unlocked yet. The positions of the exports of educational services have been lost in large part and in need of recovery. There are objective preconditions in Russia for development of the exports of transport and tourism services. The rise in exports of high-technology and intellectual services can be achieved by upgrading of the intellectual property protection for the Russian organizations and individuals abroad. The other source of the rise in exports - the government support in customs and exchange regulation and the subsidy assistance of global marketing.

Technological transformation processes allow you to move to a qualitatively new level of business technology. This suggests that the occurrence of so-called cognitive era. In these circumstances, the development of new management technologies and approaches in management, in particular, the cognitive management. Discusses the application of cognitive technologies business process management in the digital economy.

Regulators of the Russian software market over the past five years have a significant impact on the market: from the serious requirements about the protection of personal data in information systems to the policy of import substitution. This article contains a part of the results of the author’s research that covered 79 experienced engineers and managers in all federal districts of Russia. The expert’s panel reviewed the change in costs and efforts in software development projects connected with stricter requirements for collecting and storing personal data, evaluated import substitution of system and application software and determined the possibilities of using technologies, based on open-source code. The results of the study are accompanied by brief recommendations of the author.

The article presents a systematic analysis of state of arts in the US science, its organization and development prospects. Particular attention is paid to challenges in the scientific and technical sphere, which the Donald Trump administration is faced with, as well as first steps in this area. The experience of the US science organization, its role in future design, in assessment and evaluation of large scientific and technical projects, in decision of national security issues that can be used and adopted in reform of the scientific and technical sphere of Russia is discussed in details.

The article deals with megaregional trade agreements TTIP, TPP, RCEP, CETA, JEEPA/JEFTA. Special attention is drown to the explanation of convergence of participants as well as to the contradictions among them. In particular, the author emphasizes the differences between the US, from the one side, and EU, Canada, Japan, from the other side, in the approaches to further trade liberalization. The author have also made assumptions about immediate prospects of MRTA.

In recent decades, the world faces active integration processes at both regional and global levels. Trade and economic unions are created and agreements are signed. One of the latest agreements signed at the interregional level is the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) - an agreement that covers foreign economic cooperation between Canada and the European Union (EU). CETA is an example of a new model of multilateral, comprehensive regulation of trade and economic relations. CETA went beyond the WTO, covering new areas of foreign economic cooperation. This article examines the history of international economic cooperation between Canada and the EU, analyzes the development of foreign economic relations between countries. In particular the article considers the background for CETA signing as the culmination of economic interaction between Canada and the EU countries. The author analyzes the agreement and identifies the priority areas of current and future potential cooperation. This study is one of the first in the field of studying interregional integration of a new type. The study of this issue can be useful for integration in other interregional agreements.

Inequality as a development issue came to the central field of scientific interests in the world in the middle of the 20th century. Recently the international community recognized the importance of the problem by including it as one of the goals in the UN2015 agreement on the goals of sustainable development. The Russian inequality was formed during the transitional crisis of the 1990s mostly due to the fall in GDP by 43% and the specifics of privatization. In 2000s social inequality is marked by rigidity, despite economic growth. Since significant inequality adversely affects the growth and society, its decline is important in the long term and should become a part of the country’s strategy in the future.

The article describes the macroeconomic consequences of the overvalued ruble policy (1996-2010s). It explains the impact of carry trade on financial crises in 1998, 2008-2009, 2014. The five scenarios of future financial crises are discussing. Reveals the “formula” of New Course macroeconomic and financial policy that includes, as an element, a moderately weak ruble.

The article discusses the concept of world-class universities and the author’s understanding of the term, allowing not only to identify these objects but also to quantify their international potential. The hypothesis that education is a “secondary” function of society and follows on the success and needs of the real economy. Based on ranking of QS company the analysis of the international positions of the leading universities of countries belonging to BRICS and states of African, Latin America and Asia. The reference point was used at Harvard University. The analysis excluded the countries of the British Commonwealth and the United States, which unconditionally dominating in all Global University rankings. It is shown that Russia today has only one world-class University - the Moscow state University. M. V. Lomonosov, which has the most simple among all the identified universities of this kind. Revealed weaknesses of the domestic University system.

The article deals with the new challenges of transition to sustainable development in the world and Russia. Analyzes the long-term goals of sustainable development for Russia, the role of ecosystem services in the world and the country, indicators of sustainable development, the transition to green economy. For greater stability, you can not increase the amount of natural resources and at the same time increase the level of material well-being of the population due to the policy of “win-win” and the decoupling effect. The country needs a federal compensation ecological and economic mechanism that would take into account the value of regional ecosystems and their ecosystem services for the country and all mankind. It is important to support the transition to a model of green economy, which is largely due to the economic modernization objectives. Taking into account national priorities and features Russia needs to develop a system of sustainable development indicators.

The article analyzes the implementation of some projects approved in the long-term Strategies for socio-economic development of regions and constituent entities of the Federation. It is revealed that the complexity of the coordination of interests of the state, regions and private companies gives rise to a change in the timing and extent of implementation of the first infrastructure projects, and inside them - transport. The conclusion is made about necessity of development of complex projects of development of regions of the new development and may be returning to the practice of territorial-production approach of the Soviet period, as well as project evaluations based on the use of economic spatial patterns.