Monitoring regional technological development and sovereignty: an organizational mechanism

The article reveals the specifics of organizing technological development monitoring at the regional level, considering the goals and objectives of national development in the technological sphere, as well as the need to create clarifying indicative parameters for conducting an economic analysis of the level of technological independence. The objective of the study is to develop groups of indicators that are integrated into a unified system for monitoring regional technological development and allow for the assessment of interregional inequality to develop a set of preventive, operational, and strategic measures for achieving technological sovereignty in the modern world. The research objective is to examine the current legislative framework, which sets the direction of technological development in the Russian Federation; to consider approaches to organizing technological development monitoring and analysis of the level of interregional technological development; and to develop indicators for monitoring regions by the level of technological development. The research methodology is based on the theory of technological and regional development, dialectical and system-complex approaches, methods of generalization, systematization, critical analysis, induction and deduction, expert and point assessment. The study states that the regulations for monitoring technological development at the national level lack consistency and there is a lack of a unified methodology for interregional analysis. Authors developed the goals and objectives of a regional system for monitoring the level of technological development, proposed a definition of the concept of «regional technological sovereignty», and identified the structural components of the regional technological development ecosystem, their qualitative characteristics, and a mechanism for their assessment. The study’s findings can provide insight into the issue of interregional disparities.