Global division of labor in IT as a condition of IT globalization 2.0

Abstract

The work examines trends in the global division of labor in the field of information technology. The inclusion of an increasing number of countries, including developing ones, in the development of the global IT market should become the basis for the re-globalization of the IT industry or IT globalization 2.0. The methodology used was the analysis of scientometric data on scientific publications in the field of IT. To confirm the effectiveness of using scientometric analysis, a study of correlations between publication activity and IT market development was conducted. The study showed in which countries and in which IT areas new products should be expected to appear. In particular, it was shown that in the IT industry as a whole, the number of scientific studies conducted in recent years by scientists from the BRICS countries is greater than the number of such studies by scientists from the G7 countries. If we consider scientific publications in certain areas of IT, in some cases they are relatively evenly represented in different countries, which corresponds to the approach of IT globalization 2.0, and in some areas there are leading countries that are significantly ahead of other countries, which carries risks from the point of view of globalization. The proposed analysis and methodology can become the basis for a methodology for monitoring the global IT market from the point of view of Russia’s import independence.