LEGAL ASPECTS SEARCH FOR NEW MEANINGS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCIENTIFIC ELITE
The transition to the post-industrial era, which is largely determined by the new conditions of socio-economic development of society, contributes to increasing the relevance of considering the legal aspects of the development of the scientific elite. It is the emergence of new technological directions in the development of society that will increase the actualization of interest in the role of the scientific elite. The main purpose of the article is aimed at understanding the role of the scientific elite in the prescriptive (normative) regulation of scientific activity that determines the successful development of society. This determines the formulation of the problems of legal awareness of the ways of interaction of science with various institutional structures and the nature of the selection of the scientific elite. This article highlights a whole set of properties and qualities through which the identification of the scientific elite is made, allowing it to play a significant role in the transformation of industrial society into post-industrial society. This article notes that the new meaning of the development of the scientific elite and the successful introduction of new technologies is determined by the existence of legal conditions for the development of open meritocratic communities based on liberal and democratic values, supported by a well-thoughtout state policy in the field of science and higher education, as well as in the expansion of business participation in scientific and educational projects.