Analyzing the trends in the digital economy and the factors of industrial clustering

Today the digital economy makes a considerable contribution to the world economy and the economies of individual countries and is reasonably one of the priority ways for the development of the former. Correspondingly, it is important to determine the tendencies in the digital economy, which will define the global trends in the immediate and distant future. One of the objectives of the study is an attempt of the authors to define the development trends of the digital economy based on the research of scientometrical indicators. In addition, the authors systematized the externalities and internalities of the industrial clustering processes. The object of the research is the digitalization processes both in Russia and abroad, and the factors that affect economic clustering. The research is aimed at defining the role of the digital economy in modern processes of global transformation, revealing the development trends of the digital economy based on the study of scientometric databases, as well as analyzing and classifying the economic clustering factors, including: economic, scientific and technological, institutional, geographic, global and legislativel.The methods used at various stages of the research include the methods of mathematical statistics, correlation-regression analysis, expert methods, as well as classifications, a comparative literature review, and correlation of the data obtained by Russian and foreign authors. The authors note that interest in the digital economy grows every year and currently this growth is exponential. In the scientific article authors describe the areas and programs of development of the digital economy in Russia and in some foreign countries. It is highlighted that most of the research in the digital economy is dedicated to digital technology application. Based on the analysis of the scientometric databases of the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) and Scopus, the development trends of the digital economy were shown.