Fundamentals and contemporary challenges of establishing and developing a modern system for assessing the state of scientific and other innovative activities

Abstract

The socio-economic progress of each country at the modern stage is unthinkable without the intensive use of innovative approaches and the formation and constant improvement of a corresponding highly effective unified national system. At the modern stage, under the direct influence of all the above factors, the doctrine of the formation and optimization of the national system of innovative development, which is based on the joint efforts of the state, the corps of scientists and engineers, business and civil society, has come to the fore. Thus, exact identification of the main characteristics of the innovative systems and the development of most accurate, reliable and objective methods for their quantitative assessment are extremely relevant. It is currently widely believed that the most comprehensive and accurate measure of the efficiency and productivity of the innovation process is the Global Innovation Index (GII). However, the set of tools currently used for this purpose is characterized by a quite narrow spectrum and often deserves sharp criticism. Accordingly, it is not unfounded to believe that the GII index is more a measure of a country's financial and economic efficiency than of its innovative potential. So, study and evaluation of the correlation of different indicators, exact determining the effectiveness of each innovative system, and developing of a scientifically substantiated specific plan for its improvement are urgently needed. In this regard, in our opinion it is logical to assume that in the modern era the global innovation index should be directly related to the sustainable development index and the knowledge society index, as well as to other newly developed characteristics