Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0: Challenges and Opportunities, The Case Study of Russia

The article is devoted to Industry 4.0 and the Fourth industrial revolution. Society 5.0 develops the concept of Industry 4.0 taking into account current social and technological challenges in the direction of its humanization and expansion beyond the technological, organizational, and economic transformation of industrial production based on cutting-edge scientific and technical developments. So, the task of identifying challenges and opportunities for implementing the concepts of Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0 for Russia is updated. To try to find answers to these questions, the authors of this article developed a questionnaire and conducted a survey of representatives of the Russian business community (mainly industrial enterprises). The results of the survey below provide information about the opportunities and risks of Russian enterprises in connection with the implementation of the concepts of Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0. According to the survey analysis in the implementation of the concept of Society 5.0 in Russia it should be set not only as priorities of technological development at the national level Also mechanisms for motivating the business community should be developed in the field of socially-oriented technologies. Based on the results of an empirical study, it can be concluded that the economy of the Russian Federation on the way to transition to a digital society faced the same problems and restrictions as most countries of the world.