A new market for technological solutions, emerging in the context of Industry 4.0, the challenges of the digital economy and artificial intelligence, globalization and de-globalization, a pandemic and a new global order, a "green" and circular economy, puts forward new requirements for the management of manufacturing businesses, which, in turn, determines the need for new directions for the development of business education.
Modern trends in business education combine the search for new formats of education, the transformation of MBA programs, including digitalization and online learning, meeting the need for lifelong education, and strengthening industry ties with universities.
Currently, according to the experience of interaction between industrial companies and universities, there is a definite need for greater integration of business and technical education, in particular in the context of the introduction of advanced manufacturing, the development of new materials and technologies, "post-covid" restructuring of supply chains, etc.