Modern Challenges to the Management of Industry Drivers (Russian Mechanical Engineering Example)

Seeking for the solution of the problem of ensuring the growth and development of national economies, modern researchers and practitioners actively turns to the sectors that act as drivers. The state support of such sectors opens great prospects for the growth and development of production in their countries. This is of certain interest for Russia that nowadays faces the most pressing tasks of enhancing economic life and strengthening its position in the world economy. Naturally, there is reflected in modern government documents of our country, ensuring the growth of the domestic economy and its transition to an investment model of development and this is often associated precisely with state support for sectors among national drivers. The high rates of such actions make it necessary to specifically turn to the analysis of the state support for these industries; their development in the prism of administrative effect on them by the state and the assessment of the efforts results. This paper depicts the solving of this problem. The authors have chosen the Russian engineering industry as the object of the study. It supposes to be as capable of outstripping the growth of the entire national economy and ensuring its presence in international markets. Besides, the sector includes industries that are critical to the rest of the economy (machine tool manufacturing f. ex.), as well as those forming a new technological order, including electronics manufacturing and aircraft manufacturing. Analysis and assessment of state support for these industries, as well as the machine-building sector, constitutes the main content of the research. General scientific principles and research methods were as a methodological basis as well as statistical, comparative and content analysis. The authors analyzed the main directions and mechanisms of state support for the machine-building complex. In this perspective, there has been proposed an assessment of the state and dynamics of the sector; highlighted the prospects for its development in a pandemic; outlined the main directions for improving its state support and prospects for turning into a driver of the national economy