Labor Migration, Knowledge, and Creativity Under NIS.2: Reproduction of Human Potential in the Process of the Nootransition
Noonomy and Noosociety. Almanac of Scientific Works of the S.Y. Witte INID · Vol. 5, No. 2 · pp. 11-25
Abstract
This article furthers the study of labor migration as an indicator of the transfor-mation of the political economy category of “labor” within the theory of noono-my. Prior works have substantiated the spatial and functional modalities of labor migration and examined digital employment as a form of labor function dis-placement. The present study shifts the core analysis toward the migration of knowledge, understood as the movement of open and mastered knowledge im-plemented into activity. Knowledge is treated as the primary substance of the aromorphosis of labor; labor, as the method of its objective realization; and crea-tivity, as the highest form of knowledge-intensive activity, in which what is known receives objective embodiment in a design, a mental object, and a socially useful innovation. The essence of this transition is that labor gradually emerges from the regime of external necessity and unfolds as a form of human measure, responsibility, and the creation of a new social result. It is substantiated that a territory develops to the extent that it reproduces knowledge-intensive functions within its own educational, research-and-production, and cultural space, retains the creative function, and transforms worker mobility into the circulation of hu-man potential. The article concludes that under the conditions of NIS.2, labor mobility policy must be viewed as an integral part of the reproduction of human potential, and its substance must be determined by the embedding of knowledge in labor, the expansion of human creative participation, and the institutional consolidation of the knowledge-intensive functions of the new industrialization.
Keywords: noonomy, nootransition, NIS.2, knowledge, knowledge-intensive labor, knowledge intensity, creative labor, creativity, mental object, labor migration, knowledge migration, functional migration, spatial migration, embedding of knowledge, human potential, new industrialization
For citation
Bodrunov S. D., Dmitriev N. D. (2026). Labor Migration, Knowledge, and Creativity Under NIS.2: Reproduction of Human Potential in the Process of the Nootransition. Noonomy and Noosociety. Almanac of Scientific Works of the S. Y. Witte INID, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 11-25. DOI: 10.37930/2782-6465-2026-5-2-11-25