Сonceptual framework for forming a national innovative system

Abstract

The historical process of the formation of the conceptual foundations of the national innovation system is described and the objectivity of the implementation of such a process in developed countries is substantiated in connection with the transition from the «old» economy based on the traditional approach («Fordist economy» - Fordist) to the «new (neofordist) economy» (Neo-Fordist), which in the last decade of the last century has evolved into the «new» (Post-Fordist), called the knowledge-based economy, or innovative economy. The process of introducing the concept of “national innovation system” into scientific circulation, substantiating the foundations of the NIS concept and determining the basic methodological principles of NIS formation, which include following the ideas of J. Schumpeter on com-petition based on innovations and scientific developments as the main factors of economic dynamics, recognition of the special role knowledge in economic development and consideration of the institutional context of innovation as a factor that directly affects its content and structure.