Currently, the country's regions have set a course for the transition from an export-oriented raw materials development model to an innovative one, for the production of high-value-added products, and the achievement of technological sovereignty. The trajectory towards the development of its own technologies is also observed in the timber industry of the Vologda region. It is aimed at increasing the competitiveness of enterprises and increasing the efficiency of production, but at the same time, a number of factors limit progress in this area. The purpose of the research is to study the features of the technological development of the Vologda region timber industry. The tasks include identifying the factors determining technological development, describing the main trends and identifying its limiting problems. The key factors are highlighted in accordance with the scheme of stages of the introduction of new technologies. Financial support, government initiatives, availability of resources, equipment, infrastructure, environmental requirements, and a number of other factors are of the greatest importance among them. Currently, in the branches of the timber industry, there is a trend towards digitalization, automation and robotization of production, the formation of new materials and products with predefined properties based on the use of technologies from other fields of knowledge, greening, and the development of energy- and resource-saving technologies. The main limitations of the technological development of the studied complex in the region are the low degree of processing of raw materials, the low interest of manufacturers themselves in making products more complex, low volumes of reforestation, lack of personnel and insufficient investments. The research was conducted using methods of systematization, generalization and analysis. The information base includes data from monitoring of technological trends at the Higher School of Economics, industry news agencies, strategic documents, and foreign and domestic research.
Currently, the country's regions have set a course for the transition from an export-oriented raw materials development model to an innovative one, for the production of high-value-added products, and the achievement of technological sovereignty. The trajectory towards the development of its own technologies is also observed in the timber industry of the Vologda region. It is aimed at increasing the competitiveness of enterprises and increasing the efficiency of production, but at the same time, a number of factors limit progress in this area. The purpose of the research is to study the features of the technological development of the Vologda region timber industry. The tasks include identifying the factors determining technological development, describing the main trends and identifying its limiting problems. The key factors are highlighted in accordance with the scheme of stages of the introduction of new technologies. Financial support, government initiatives, availability of resources, equipment, infrastructure, environmental requirements, and a number of other factors are of the greatest importance among them. Currently, in the branches of the timber industry, there is a trend towards digitalization, automation and robotization of production, the formation of new materials and products with predefined properties based on the use of technologies from other fields of knowledge, greening, and the development of energy- and resource-saving technologies. The main limitations of the technological development of the studied complex in the region are the low degree of processing of raw materials, the low interest of manufacturers themselves in making products more complex, low volumes of reforestation, lack of personnel and insufficient investments. The research was conducted using methods of systematization, generalization and analysis. The information base includes data from monitoring of technological trends at the Higher School of Economics, industry news agencies, strategic documents, and foreign and domestic research.
the article was prepared in accordance with the state assignment for the VolRC RAS on the research topic FMGZ-2025-0012 “Structural and technological transformation of the regional economy in the context of ensuring national security of the Russian Federation: monitoring, regulation and forecast”.