Suggestions and Comments to the Draft Concept of Economic Development of Donetsk and Luhansk Regions

A vision of the strategic future of Donbass as a region of high technological culture, which should develop on the basis of a neo-industrial model of modernization based on the introduction of the latest achievements of science and technology, is proposed. The necessity of developing a strategic course for the development of the ideology of industrial development of the Donetsk region under the influence of external and internal challenges and threats has been substantiatedThis is necessary for the restoration and development of the industrial complex of Ukraine, for the development of the intellectual, scientific, production and personnel potential of the region, to achieve high quality production standards. The directions and mechanisms for the implementation of this idea, due to the use of the capabilities of the platform economy, information and communication and digital technologies, are proposed, which significantly increase the number of potential participants in the implementation of the Strategy, attract additional resources, ensure competition, transparency, efficiency of their interaction and mutually beneficial cooperation. The authors revealed the basic conditions, the existing institutional opportunities for the implementation of the Strategy for the reunification, revival and development of Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine. The institutional conditions for the "reset" of the Donbass economy are revealed. Proposals to the Action Plan to overcome obstacles and intensify actions for the revival of Donbass in the political, social and information spheres, in issues of reintegration and the establishment of peace have been substantiated. Attention is focused on the need to develop the current National Platform "Dialogue for Peace and Safe Reintegration", on the implementation of all-Ukrainian projects of cultural interregional integration; projects for the reintegration of children from the occupied Donbass and Crimea. The key position of the authors Donbass is a region that is able to retain its role as the industrial center of Ukraine and develop on the basis of neo-industrial models by introducing the latest technologies in Industry 4.0. Donbass is a territory of powerful innovation and investment growth, which is capable to ensure high competitiveness of the economy of the region and Ukraine as a whole. This requires the implementation of the strategic course of Ukraine aimed to build the country's industrial complex as a whole, and to develop the competitiveness of the national economy and industrial regions.