Pablic Law Incentives for the Develipment of the Information Technology Industry as Instrument for Ensuring Technological Sovereignty

Abstract

The article examines the public law mechanism for stimulating the development of the IT industry in Russia as an instrument for ensuring technological sovereignty and achieving technological leadership. Based on the analysis of normative legal acts and empirical data for 2022—2025, a contradiction is identifi ed between formal indicators of import substitution and the actual level of technological independence. The legal nature of the transformation on the public law mechanism for incentivizing IT industry development is examined, carried out through the adoption of new federal laws, the tightening of IT accreditation rules, and reorientation of grant policy. A comparative analysis of the Russian mechanism with the models of China and India is conducted. A three-tier model for assessing software domesticity (formal, functional, and structural) is proposed.