The Sixth Technological Structure: Some Economic Scenarios for Enterprises

Abstract

Some scenarios of changing the economic characteristics of enterprise development with the advent of the sixth technological structure are investigated in the paper.

The trends of the change in the specific indicators of energy, material, and labor intensity of Russian organizations are considered. It is shown that on the horizon of 20–30 years, with current trends (without acceleration), the specific cost indicators are expected to decrease to 30 %, which will lead to significant changes in the profitability of enterprises.

The following are considered as target indicators: a) business value (EV) and b) multi-year economic added value (EVA). It is shown that organizations that do not “respond” to technological changes at times “lose” on the target indicators and in fact will be uncompetitive.