Establishment of research competencies in The context of Russian digitalization

The configuration of global markets undergoes substantial changes as affected by digitization. Many traditional industries become less significant in the global economy structure alongside the rapid growth of new sectors, generating fundamentally new needs. The determinant rote in the ongoing transformation is acquired by research and invention, which requires creation of system of research and invention management in digital economy field enabling coordination of efforts of interested parties - representatives of the Federal Agencies of Executive Authority, companies, higher educational establishments and scientific organizations. Intensive development of digital economy society inevitably involves tasks in knowledge management field. The priority sources are information and knowledge acquired from the knowledge-based experience. And, competencies, being a competitive position on the market, are innovativeness, expert knowledge, creativeness, cognition. Therefore, transition from physical to digital economy requires fundamentally new approaches not only in industries and factories, but also in formation of human resources for digital economy: education, staff training, establishment and innovative human capital management. In the paper we considered approaches, tools and mechanisms of formation of key conditions for digital economy staff training and perfection of the educational system which must provide digital economy with the competitive work force. The crucial point of the approach must be formation of the support system of exploratory and applied research in digital economy (research infrastructure of digital platforms), providing technological independence of every direction of transparent digital technologies which are competitive on a global basis.