Socio-economic development in conditions of digital transformations: regional features, strategic analysis, and prospects

The article's purpose is to study socio-economic development in the conditions of digital transformations, the implementation of strategic analysis, and the determination of further prospects. Approbation of the proposed methodological approaches and the corresponding mathematical toolkit was carried out, which allows calculating the economic potential of the IT sector's development in Ukraine. With the help of systematic approaches, the authors have singled out the regions with the highest prospects for socio-economic development based on SMART specializations. It has been proven that when forming strategies for the socio-economic development of regions, an essential element is to determine their SMART disciplines. The conducted analysis made it possible to assess the possibility of implementing SMART specialization in the IT regions of Ukraine, which can become a crucial priority direction of their strategic development.