SCIENTIFIC TASKS OF INNOVATION

Abstract

The article analyzes the subject of innovation as an independent scientific direction, which has its own subject of research. It is shown that in scientific literature on innovation, including monographs and textbooks, there is no distinction between traditionally economic problems and problems of innovation activity. At the same time, opposite processes are taking place: private issues of economics are included in innovation, but the concepts of political economy, which form the basis of the methodology of economics, are not used. As a result, questions that constitute the core of the theoretical problems of innovation remain outside the scope of attention. The general picture of ideas about the subject of innovation in scientific publications is shown. Opinions are expressed on the features of research methods of innovation. Some scientific and practical problems are presented, which should be responded by innovation.