At the beginning of last year, Russian business faced the withdrawal of foreign suppliers of proprietary software and high-tech electronic components. This caused difficulties in the work of companies who was engaged in the supply of abroad components. Situation required additional financial and time costs for the restructuring of processes.

However, it should be noted that domestic manufacturers already encountered difficulties with the supply of microelectronics during the COVID-19 pandemic, when large European manufacturers, while faced with a multiple increase in demand and difficulties with production and logistics, stopped selling equipment for data processing centers and servers.

One of the vectors of state policy has been the development of technological sovereignty in order to avoid similar problems in the future and provide support for domestic producers. This program involves its own scientific and technological development and the modernization of existing infrastructure to gain complete independence from foreign goods. The achievement of technological sovereignty is designed to reduce the dependence on foreign software, create your own printed circuit boards and electronic devices, and produce competitive products and solutions.

State support is aimed at developments in such industries as information and communication technologies, biotechnology, space systems, energy, medicine and others. The modernization of these areas requires the constant evolution of existing electronic systems, the creation of new products, as well as the constant replacement of obsolete components.

As mentioned above, one of the promising areas included in the program for technological sovereignty is healthcare. Russian entrepreneurs are already starting to bring new products to the market that will ensure a sustainable level of modernization and digitalization of medicine. Manufacturers are also conducting scientific research to promote their own topical solutions on the market. One of these companies is Caduceus Electronics, a resident of the Dubna Special Economic Zone, whose work is aimed at research, development and creation of electronic components and software for medical equipment.

As part of the instructions approved by the President of the Russian Federation, the growth of companies implementing R&D in the electronics industry is expected to create new industries in the key areas in the next 5-7 years. This will make it possible to build the basis of Russia's technological independence and open the way to equal international technological cooperation in the most important areas of global development and provide employment for several million people.