Choice of Innovative Technologies as a Factor of Modernization of the Industrial Plants

The article analyzes the need to develop a new type of interaction between providers of the equipment and its end-users in a changing social and cultural reality. This type of interaction is a guarantee of innovative modernization of Russian industrial facilities, as it is based on a revision of the...

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Main Author: E. A. Panfilova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MGIMO University Press 2015-04-01
Series:Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta
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Online Access:https://www.vestnik.mgimo.ru/jour/article/view/336
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description The article analyzes the need to develop a new type of interaction between providers of the equipment and its end-users in a changing social and cultural reality. This type of interaction is a guarantee of innovative modernization of Russian industrial facilities, as it is based on a revision of the social reality in light of new information and/or knowledge. The choice of innovative technologies that contribute to fruitful and qualitative relationships among the actors of the social process acquires significance since there have been changes in the role, objectives and potential of technology. The author focuses on the changes in perceptions of social time and space, reflection of consumers (the impact of economic, social and psychological factors on their decision to purchase), and suppliers. There is a reflection of the habitus of social actors in the context of social interaction, based on the organization of innovative practices. Today technology is also reflecting, its symbolic characteristics, contained in the codes of signification, become more important, than technical ones. The research is based on in-depth interviews with experts from the pharmaceutical industry aimed at identifying the factors influencing the decision to purchase an innovative high-quality imported equipments and machinery, which would contribute to the modernization of the existing production process. The author concludes that adequate reflection which promotes the creation and dissemination of new social practices based on close and confidential contacts and development of flexible communication tools would provide for successful modernization of Russia.
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spelling doaj.art-630c99f8902a47d6af4ebc6ec381f0012024-02-07T10:17:06ZengMGIMO University PressVestnik MGIMO-Universiteta2071-81602541-90992015-04-0102(41)26126810.24833/2071-8160-2015-2-41-261-268336Choice of Innovative Technologies as a Factor of Modernization of the Industrial PlantsE. A. Panfilova0Mosraw State Institute of International Relations (University) of the MFA of RussiaThe article analyzes the need to develop a new type of interaction between providers of the equipment and its end-users in a changing social and cultural reality. This type of interaction is a guarantee of innovative modernization of Russian industrial facilities, as it is based on a revision of the social reality in light of new information and/or knowledge. The choice of innovative technologies that contribute to fruitful and qualitative relationships among the actors of the social process acquires significance since there have been changes in the role, objectives and potential of technology. The author focuses on the changes in perceptions of social time and space, reflection of consumers (the impact of economic, social and psychological factors on their decision to purchase), and suppliers. There is a reflection of the habitus of social actors in the context of social interaction, based on the organization of innovative practices. Today technology is also reflecting, its symbolic characteristics, contained in the codes of signification, become more important, than technical ones. The research is based on in-depth interviews with experts from the pharmaceutical industry aimed at identifying the factors influencing the decision to purchase an innovative high-quality imported equipments and machinery, which would contribute to the modernization of the existing production process. The author concludes that adequate reflection which promotes the creation and dissemination of new social practices based on close and confidential contacts and development of flexible communication tools would provide for successful modernization of Russia.https://www.vestnik.mgimo.ru/jour/article/view/336modernizationinnovative equipmentreflexivityreflexive modernityhabitusself-reflection
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Choice of Innovative Technologies as a Factor of Modernization of the Industrial Plants
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modernization
innovative equipment
reflexivity
reflexive modernity
habitus
self-reflection
title Choice of Innovative Technologies as a Factor of Modernization of the Industrial Plants
title_full Choice of Innovative Technologies as a Factor of Modernization of the Industrial Plants
title_fullStr Choice of Innovative Technologies as a Factor of Modernization of the Industrial Plants
title_full_unstemmed Choice of Innovative Technologies as a Factor of Modernization of the Industrial Plants
title_short Choice of Innovative Technologies as a Factor of Modernization of the Industrial Plants
title_sort choice of innovative technologies as a factor of modernization of the industrial plants
topic modernization
innovative equipment
reflexivity
reflexive modernity
habitus
self-reflection
url https://www.vestnik.mgimo.ru/jour/article/view/336
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