The Role and Specificity of Human Capital in the Formation of a Digital Economy

The article analyzes the process of transformation of human capital in the digital economy and reveals the current specifics of human capital, formed under the influence of digital technologies. Using systemic and synergetic research methods allowed us to consider the modern digital economy as a dynamic, self-developing system in which human capital is the primary source of innovative transformations. The authors discuss the mechanism of the dynamics of current social processes that influenced the formation of new qualitative content of human capital. They highlight the following global trends in the development of modern human capital: the transformation of human capital into an independent factor of production, the increasing role of intellectual capital in the digital economy, the emergence of new requirements that modern employers place on human capital. It is proved that, at present, human capital takes the form of intellectual capital associated with the heuristic nature of new knowledge. The authors conclude that the young generation is becoming the bearer of modern intellectual capital, in which unique values, a new type of motivation, new forms of communication, and new skills (including digital) are actively being formed.