This article examines the impact of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) on the economy, society and human beings. Research of the World Economic Forum (WEF) allows to identify the key drivers of technological change, as well as to anticipate the main features of the new economic world. “Uberization” of economy is spreading rapidly into new markets services, including in Russia, and creates a “joint use economy”. In the near future Blockchain technologies will have a strong impact on the banking sector and will lead to a reduction in operating costs. The use of “Internet of things” (IoT) is growing rapidly especially in industry, energy and transport, as well as in the construction of “smart cities”. Within the framework of the project “National Technological Initiative” (NTI), the Russian government has identified the most promising markets and technologies that will allow Russian companies to be competitive in the long term of 10-20 years. In addition, the meta-council on new WEF technologies has published a report “Top 10 New Technologies 2016” in June this year, which lists the most important and promising technological trends of the future. The article describes the implications of new technologies, including the negative ones - unemployment, cybercrime and others.

Today the introduction of innovations in manufacture of industrial products, agricultural products and services has become the key factor of economic growth and competitiveness of national economies throughout the world. Innovative development has become a global competition for technology and human capital. Russia’s objectives are ensuring a high level of welfare on the basis of the transition to an innovative path of development and acceleration of scientific and technological progress, strengthening the geopolitical role of the country as one of the global leaders. Over the years, venture market has appeared and the main elements of the innovation system has formed in Russia. In the field of innovations Russian Federation moves towards state management of the innovation. To accelerate innovative development of the country, it is necessary need to give more opportunities for the development of private initiative, as it is done in the leading countries. Successful application of the use of developed countries innovative capacity for achievement economic growth can serve as a benchmark for Russia. National innovation system of the Russian Federation is fundamentally differs from NIS in developed countries, both as by the level of development and efficiency of functioning and by its organizational structure. Social, cultural, historical and economic factors are in the basis of these differences. Competent adaptation of its individual elements to the Russian conditions can improve the competitiveness of the innovation sector and the Russian economy as a whole.

The article examines the trends of commercial demand on international market on the products and services of the space industry and their application in social-economic spheres in different countries. The authors draw attention to satellite connection services, Global Navigation Satellite Systems etc. It presents the analysis of market structure and regional structure of demand on certain space products and services. It examines main drivers of demand for major types of space products and services under the prospects of their using in specific industries and spheres of economy. Also it describes the main consumers of space information into the modern conditions. Under modern socio-economic conditions it is done a prediction on further development of space market.

Relevance of the work due to the need to find opportunities to practice implementation of industrial policy, formulated in the new federal law. The subject of research is the Russian small and medium business (MSB). The aim of the article is to identify the composition of functions and mechanisms for MSB needed to implement the above policy. To achieve the goal proposed to use the model of the “window of opportunity” Overton, which for the “window of opportunity” for MSB to use the enlarged economic space levels of the hierarchy. This approach allows a new level of quality to give advice on the use of the capacity of MSB to enable them to participate in meeting the challenges of the new industrial policy. It is concluded that this approach allows a new level of quality to identify the potential for MSB to enable them to participate effectively in the implementation of the new industrial policy.

In this article the author examines the phenomenon of the spread and the different approaches to the typology of global value chains, as well as the economic benefits from participating in them. Currently, in the areas of high economic activity scientific and expert community regards the global value chain as one of the tools to increase the degree of economic integration of the regional economies. On the basis of expert opinion survey the prospects of Russian-Belarusian integration were summarized, and the author concluded that at the current stage of integration the most effective way to participate in global value chains would be embedding in them small and medium enterprises of the two countries. The most promising strategy to increase participation in the global value chain would be a method of “lifting up the chain” shown by some countries in Southeast Asia. The author proposed a number of practical actions in the area of institutional organization and industry orientation of deepening the Russian-Belarusian integration through participation in global value chains. Particular attention should be paid to the development of neoindustrialization process that is able to fundamentally change the current architecture of the global division of labor.

The notion of inequality arises in the process of comparing objects and usually characterizes the difference of the objects in terms “more” or “less”. The inequality of people and economic entities in society can both stimulate and suppress the initiative. It, as different processes and phenomena, has its positive and negative effects. On one hand, an inequality stimulates the successful development of a number of members and groups of a community. That is a positive effect. But such progress is at the expense of some other members and groups of a community. That is a negative side of an inequality. Some elements and parts of the community degrade, collapse, disappear. In this article we regard the Russian Federation, its population and regions, and some foreign countries as subjects of inequality. Some of the dangers of geopolitical inequality for the economy of Russia and of inequality in the country for the Russians and the subjects of the Russian Federation are discussed in the paper. The author says that geopolitical inequality destabilizes the world community, threatens the peaceful existence of different countries, Nations, cultures, religions. Inequalities in the development of constituent entities of the Russian Federation and tremendous gap in incomes and property status of Russians, induce a risk of growth in the number of law violations, public discontent, social unrest and class stratification of society.

The paper analyzes integration projects of the EU, US and China - rivals in the post-soviet space. Their implementation seriously challenges the making and functioning of the Eurasian Economic Union, which embraces Armenia, Byelorussia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic and Russia. Special attention is focused on China’s strategy of post-soviet space development and its new stage linked with the Silk Road Economic Belt realization.

The cyclicality of underwriting profits for the property-liability insurance industry has been extensively researched. The underwriting cycle refers to a repeating series of phases that insurance markets go through. The sequence of hard and soft markets may be observed in prices, profitability, and supply (capacity) for insurance. In this study we try to describe in detail phases of insurance cycles and its characteristics. We put a special emphasis into crises (hard markets). We also present some historical data about crises, its causes and consequence on the example of the US insurance market.

The article deals with the preconditions, organizational model, and the main factors that determined the fall of prices on the world oil markets in 2014, we studied the most important both objective and subjective aspects of the extremely nonequilibrium price dynamics caused by the global financial manipulations in world oil markets. Analyzed key trends change the financial policy of the USA, passing by inflirovaniya dollar and the credit pump contributing to the weakening of the dollar to the measures aimed at strengthening of the dollar; measures designed to format the most important financial and stock markets in the US and the UK, where the bulk of the operations carried out with the oil; measures to streamline the policies of some countries (OPEC and others.); measures for the “Building” of the corporate sector; information policy forming “reflective” reaction of players in the financial and commodity markets, as well as the governments of oil-consuming. On the basis of the key trends to develop an organizational model that includes the sequence and interaction of these factors with access to the main market players excretion of large amounts of money from derivatives and futures on oil, naturally lead to the collapse of oil prices. The conclusion about the necessity of forming common markets of oil and petroleum products EAEC, including the unification of the regulatory framework in relation to the sale and transportation of oil and oil products, as well as the formation of an integrated international - under the EAEC - a mechanism of regulation of oil and oil products, including pricing issues.

Globalization of world economy is closely connected with increasing of external debts in the international financial market. In 80-90-s of the last century sovereign external debt crises were associated with developing countries only, however, at present the problem of a rapid growth of the developed countries’ external debt is more vital. The article examines dynamics, structure, specifics and major trends in the external debts of the various countries for the last ten years. The comparative analysis has allowed to evaluate the current state and forecast the prospects of the coming external borrowings of Russia. The article has a hypothesis that a rapid growth of the developed countries’ external debts can provoke a new wave of the world financial and economic crisis. The analysis substantiates the need to stimulate the co-operation between international institutions and national regulators in order to hold a unified financial approach to supervising sovereign debts of the different countries.

The article regards rapidly growing companies as a tool for the analysis of micro-economic development. The objective of the paper is to identify ways to apply information about fast-growing companies in the management of economic processes, to prove that the study of growing companies has become a new tool and method of microeconomic analysis and a way to identify economically active regions, industries and sub-industries. The article analyzes the existing approaches to the definition of high-growth companies, notes the spheres of application, advantages and disadvantages of these approaches. It is concluded that the applicability of the “soft” selection criteria of fast-growing companies is to identifying centers of economic growth, while the “hard” criteria allow to study the most successful companies and to identify strategies for success. The use of “hard” criterion makes the analysis of fast-growing companies a valuable tool for the study of entrepreneurship. Fast-growing companies, selected according to this criterion, are empirical approximation of the theoretical concepts of entrepreneurial firms.

The article considers the financial situation of the mosaic of regional machine-building complex of the Novosibirsk Region (NSR) in the period of economic sanctions for Russia. The article deals with the financial behavior and strategies of machine-building enterprises of the Novosibirsk region. The article covers the topic of the study of statistical data on the financial status of machine-building enterprises of the region. The authors identify the main issues and areas of sustainable development of regional financial engineering in the conditions of economic blockade. In the work carried out is the processing of statistical data that allowed to give the quantitative characteristics of the performance of the machine-building enterprises of the region under the conditions of sanctions. The study used the methods of analysis, synthesis, integrated approaches, comparisons, and other methods of systematic knowledge. The authors made conclusions about the reasons that caused the difficult financial situation of the machine-building enterprises in recent years, and the need for enhanced cooperation of business and government in the framework of the policy of import substitution and economic security.

This article provides an overview of the key English terms used in the information support of modern development. Identified the key information systems used in the development in accordance with their hierarchy, and shows the basic control information flows. The tendencies of development of systems management of construction projects in the General system of the global network economy. It justifies the approach of system development of information tools of management of investment-construction projects of complex infrastructure projects throughout their lifecycle from project initiation to disposal of the object. Examples of the major manufacturers of software for information management, which use aggregation of information flows and integrate management decisions into a single global system.

Problem solving training companies in the IT industry is inextricably linked with the tasks of reproduction and development of personnel potential of universities. The pace of development of information technology make the IT industry is sensitive to the skills of the involved professionals. Professional competence of IT-specialists depend on the quality of their teaching, from the professionalism and skills of academic staff. Therefore, the decision of problems of formation of personnel potential of the IT industry is inseparably connected with the tasks of reproduction and development of personnel potential of the systems of vocational training. The article deals with problem of forecasting of demand for skilled personnel of information technology. Presented a model system of reproduction of human potential of the University and the organization of the IT industry in the context of continuous professional development. Described the links between educational structures, labor market and potential employers. Presented fragments of the dynamic model implemented in the computer simulation system Anylogic 6.9.0 University. Presented scenarios of the model.

The central part of the article is presentation of methodical approach to the analysis of the demographic situation dynamics on several indicators for multiple territorial objects, allowing evaluating each territory according to the degree of the demographic situation tension in general. For this type of analysis several indicators of demographic threats has been selected, on which the dynamics for regions of the Siberian Federal District (SFD) on the background of the all-Russian tendencies has been presented. The integral indicator of demographic security is also used (IIDS). Having compared the dynamics of IIDS for all subjects of the SFD three groups of regions in terms of demographic security in 1990-2014 are selected. It is shown that almost all regions with a low level of demographic security are the border territories of the Russian Federation, having the state borders with Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China. Thus, these regions require special attention from the authorities of different levels and the adoption of appropriate management decisions in order to remedying the situation in the field of demographic security. IIDS elaboration represents the scientific and practical interest, since it allows to look after the demographic situation in the whole on the territory of region, the Federal District or the country, analyze its dynamics and do comparative analysis across time and space. This IIDS can be used to develop measures of demographic policy at the federal and regional levels, as well as taking other managerial decisions to ensure demographic security.

The availability of high-quality indicators system is a precondition for any statistical analysis. Statistical indicators system is a set of interrelated and mutually corresponded statistical indicators with a strictly ordered structure aimed at solving a particular statistical problem. There are a lot of different systems of economic and statistical indicators that allow to make quantitative and qualitative assessments of socio-economic processes and programs, but they are not sufficiently informative to conduct a full economic and statistical analysis. The author believes that the most high-quality and representative system is a combination of indicators of national accounts and operational business statistics. The resulting system consists of five blocks of indicators characterizing structure, dynamics, product demand, trends and promising of industrial production. The sources of the content information database are public databases and it is positively evaluated. Finally, the resulting statistical indicators system of industrial production in Russia should be full and sufficient both for high-quality and complete analysis of the domestic industry, and for review analysis of the industry of main trading partners, Russian industry mostly depends on.