Developing Moscow High-Tech Exports

Ivan L. Lyubimov – Senior Researcher of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, PhD in Economics (Moscow, Russia). Е-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Diana G. Mirakyan – Junior Researcher of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow, Russia). E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Using regional data on labor, exports and education, this paper provides a description of the current export structure of the economy of Moscow and discusses its potential prospects. The diversification of high-tech exports, which includes both, products and services, might include solutions helping to establish complex public transport systems, developing medical tourism and higher education.

The article was written on the basis of the RANEPA state assignment research programme.

Key words: economic complexity, service export, comparative advantages, product space, technological proximity.

JEL-codes: L6, L9, O4, P23, R1.