Assessment of the Level of Technological Sovereignty of the Russian Federation based on the Integral Index

Elena M. Korostyshevskaya 1, Olga V. Stoianova 2, Andrei V. Agashin 1

1 St. Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2 Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Abstract

Russia's national technological sovereignty as an achievement of competitiveness and independence of the national economy in critically important sectors is currently under threat from external influence from Western states and a number of sanction restrictions. This is especially evident in such key areas as energy, automotive, and microelectronics, which has significantly widened the technology gap between Russia and a number of leading countries in terms of technological development. At the same time, a significant methodological gap in the field of promoting national technological competitiveness at the global level remains the way to determine the level of technological sovereignty in the context of energy transition and transformation of innovative systems. There is no corresponding indicator for measuring and tracking the dynamics of this indicator in space and time. The purpose of the work is to develop a methodology for a comprehensive assessment of the level of technological sovereignty of the Russian Federation based on an integral index. The hypothesis is that the level of technological sovereignty can be adequately measured and tracked in dynamics using an index based on six interrelated sub-indexes: industry structure, foreign trade in technology, technology production, research potential, human resources, and financial potential. The research procedure includes the development of a methodology for assessing technological sovereignty, the collection and evaluation of statistical data to build the author's methodology for calculating the integral index of technological sovereignty, and its testing on official statistical data for 2023-2024. The results of the study indicate that in 2023-2024, the technological sovereignty index decreased by 0.6 percentage points from 78.5 to 77.9%, which is primarily due to a decrease in the production of advanced manufacturing technologies, including fundamentally new ones, for the first time since 2020. The theoretical significance lies in overcoming the methodological gap by creating a comprehensive toolkit for measuring technological sovereignty, integrating existing approaches to its assessment. The practical significance lies in the fact that the proposed TSI index can be used by government agencies to monitor, set goals, and evaluate the effectiveness of policies in the field of technological development and national security.

Keywords

technological sovereignty; economic security; technological sovereignty index; advanced production technologies; human resources; energy transition.

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About Authors

Elena Mikhailovna Korostyshevskaya

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Department of Economic Theory and Economic Policy, St. Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia (191123 Saint-Petersburg, Tchaikovsky street, 62); ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9722-6898 e-mail: korostyshevskaya@spbu.ru

Olga Vladimirovna Stoianova

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Economic Informatics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia (119991, Moscow, GSP-1, Leninskie Gory, 1, building, 46); ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7281-2708 e-mail: ovstoyanova@list.ru

Andrei Vyacheslavovich Agashin

Post-Graduate Student, Department of Economic Theory and Economic Policy, St. Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia (191123 Saint-Petersburg, Tchaikovsky street, 62); ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3694-2908 e-mail: smashk379@gmail.com

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Korostyshevskaya, E.M., Stoianova, O.V., Agashin, A.V. (2026). Assessment of the Level of Technological Sovereignty of the Russian Federation based on the Integral Index. Journal of Applied Economic Research, Vol. 25, No. 2, 482-516. https://doi.org/10.15826/vestnik.2026.25.2.016

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Received December 4, 2025; Revised January 15, 2026; Accepted February 23, 2026.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/vestnik.2026.25.2.016

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