The rating TOP - 50 countries in the sphere of innovation
The article presents an economic assessment of the so-called "domination" of South Korea's innovative technologiesof economy in the world. We consider the rating of the most prominent countries in the field of innovation for 2016. Highlighting the most important and significant aspects of the technology in South Korea, which allowed it to reach a leading position, leaving behind a lot of countries. Attention is drawn to someaspects of the innovation index on which there was a gradation of countries. For the Russian Federation it is necessary to "pull up" the areas such as engineering and high-tech development, which will increase the index of the last paragraph of «the potential development». Statistical evaluation of indicators of science and innovation allows operatively to respond to the priorities of the scientific and technical policy and enhance inter-country statistical comparisons which will allow, based on a generalization of global trends and the experience of countries at different levels of scientific and technological development, to form the concept of the dynamics of the processes of innovation in relation to certain the macroeconomic situation in Russia and its regions.