Creating programs, holding training, improving continuously the digital competencies level of entrepreneurs is an urgent need for economic development at the present stage. Forming professionally competent personnel can improve the quality of work performed and ensure high labor efficiency in a competitive environment. This requires using the ways and methods, such as public dissemination of digital competencies, restructuring of the secondary education system, reorganizing university education, enhancing corporate education, building educational platforms, and encouraging the mastery of digital competences at the microlevel. To develop the potential of Industry 4.0 in Russia, it is important to implement the following initiatives: targeting; informatization of industry, or a program of education and transfer of best practices of IT sector and digital industries to industrial sectors; creating engineering clusters, and developing sectoral roadmaps of digital transformations. Thus, creating and implementing the national curriculum of general and professional digital competencies/knowledge is a priority on the way towards the accelerated development of the digital economy.

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