Dr. Glenn Diesen workshop “Geoeconomics in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Restructuring of Global Value-Chains”

Dr. Glenn Diesen is a Professor at the faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at Higher School of Economics. He specializes in the geoeconomics, Russian foreign policy, European and Eurasian integration, neoclassical realist theory and neomodernist political philosophy. Dr. Diesen is also the author of several books and journal articles on Russia's approach to European and Eurasian integration.

Abstract

To what extent does the Fourth Industrial Revolution impact global value chains as a relatively modern sphere of geoeconomics? The working paper first surveys how technology has become increasingly important for competitiveness in global value chains, which subsequently incentivises government support for technological development as the main tool for great power rivalry. Over the past decades, Western governments and corporations have cooperated to develop technological leadership with high-value activities and concurrently engineer hierarchically-structured global value chains.

With the US and China taking the lead, Russia’s ideal strategy in the new geoeconomic race towards high-tech autonomy and influence is to develop ‘technological preparedness’ in terms of the ability to absorb and implement changes. This will enable Russia to develop innovative advantage in niche areas and to increase diffusion of innovations in other states by producing spin-offs to be implemented into a Russian technological platform (domestic companies and technologies).

The paper argues that the future distribution of power will largely depend on the ability of governments to support technological development in domestic corporations, implement/adopt new technologies in society, establish autonomous domestic technological ecosystems, and manipulate the speed of technological diffusion in regional and global agreements.

Venue : 17 Malaya Ordynka, room 315

Time : October 22, 2018 at 16:00

The seminar will be held in English.

Registration is required for the event.

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In case you have any questions, please, contact Daria Vakhrusheva dvakhrusheva@hse.ru and Natalya Zheltonogova natalta.zhelt@gmail.com, team of International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism.