Economic Passionarity: Formation Peculiarities in the Digital Age

The paper substantiates the relevance of passionarity research in the economic aspect. Based on the allocation of its socio-cultural peculiarities, its main characteristics are determined depending on the level of economic development. Digital transformation has become the basis for the formation of intellectual and informational passion that acts as a driver taking on large technological, production, and investment risks to achieve their goals mainly associated with personal success and/or public recognition. The results of a comparison of methods for analyzing economic passionarity made it possible to identify the existing limitations. Taking them into account, methodological provisions were developed for systematizing indicators for the quantitative assessment of economic passionarity in the conditions of the transition to a digital economy: (1) the presence of a close relationship between the processes of formation of economic passionarity and technological transformations; (2) the priority of scientists, their close relationship with business elites and representatives of government bodies; (3) recognition of the high level of importance of economic passionaries in the progressive dynamics of development of economic systems at different levels; (4) the study of cause-and-effect dependencies between the existing conditions for the formation of economic passionarity, its quantity, as well as the resulting influence on economic processes; (5) the focus on the existing features of the statistical base presented in statistical yearbooks. These methodological provisions became the basis for systematizing indicators for a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of economic passionarity in the context of the transition to a digital economy.