Theoretical and methodological foundations of the research of economic modernization

The article is devoted to the development of theoretical foundations of the phenomenon of economic modernization. According the results of the research, the economic modernization is a process of quantitative and qualitative technical and technological, institutional, organizational and managerial transformations of the system (enterprise, industry, industrial complex, etc.) and its subsystems in order to ensure sustainable competitiveness, implemented through the adaptive potential of the system to changes in the external dynamic environment and at the same time serving as an impulse for its transformation. The components of economic modernization are considered. It is shown that economic modernization is based on the replacement of live labour with mechanized, automated and robotic labour and includes the accompanying transformation of labour relations. It is concluded that economic modernization based on robotization is a fundamentally new stage in the development of productive Forces.