Diversification of the Defence Industry Complex as a priority direction for Russia’s innovative development

The purpose of the study is to determine the degree of influence of the diversification of the defence industry on the level of innovative development of the national economy. To achieve this goal, the following tasks were solved: theoretical developments in the study of the essence and history of the development of diversification were summarised, promising directions for the development of this process in the Russian Defence Industry Complex were defined, the main problems of the development of the defence sector were revealed and the directions for their solution were substantiated.In the course of the research, the methods of empirical (observation, measurement, comparison) and experimental-theoretical (historical, logical, hypothetical) level of learning were used, with the help of which the facts of evaluating the phenomenon were collected, verified and systematised, and non-random dependencies were identified and the causes and consequences were determined. For the logical study of the collected facts and the development of concepts and judgments, the methods of the theoretical level were applied (study and generalisation, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction).The result of the study was a well-grounded conclusion that the main reasons for the development of diversification processes in our country are the reduction in the volume of state defence orders and the need to stimulate the innovative development of the production of civilian products. In turn, the development of diversification can become the basis for increasing the economic stability of the defence industry and accelerating innovative transformations in Russia.