Chapter 15 Integration Mechanisms as Sources of Overcoming Technological Inequality and Overcoming the Conflict of Business Interests in the Digital Economy: Clusters, Special Economic Zones, Technology Parks and PPP

Purpose: The purpose of the work is to consider the integration mechanism as a source of overcoming technological inequality. Also, the authors considered the problems of using clusters, special economic zones, technology parks, public–private partnership (PPP). Design/methodology/approach: Statistical and regression analysis are used as research methods. This work analyses the materials of a survey among Russian employees who were transferred to remote work in 2020, which allows specifying the essence of technological inequality in Russia. A classification of technologies that allow clusters to influence the reduction of the technological gap and overcoming conflicts of business interests is proposed, and the classification of types of government policies is presented. Originality/value: It is proved that the features of the digital economy development at the present stage largely depend on the degree of technological inequalities of countries. This work fills in a gap in the literature that consists in the uncertainty of the potential of integration mechanisms in entrepreneurship regarding the contribution to the reduction of technological inequality. This work’s contribution to the literature consists in substantiating the presence of this potential on the example of clusters, special economic zones, technology parks, and PPP.