THE CONCEPT OF FORMATION OF NETWORK STRUCTURES IN THE FIELD OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION
Analysis of the problems of forming the national innovation system (NIS) has demonstrated the current lack of a systematic approach to identifying the directions of its development. The paper deals with a wide range of issues on the organisation of the NIS, and the development of mechanisms and instruments for its operation, including: a system of network structures in the form of holding company combining respective consortia, their architecture, and procedure for the formation; basic elements of building the consortia; organisational structures of the holding company management; and principles and procedures for the formation of a strategic plan for the NIS development. The proposed model of NIS naturally realises interaction of the government and the expert community in S&T and business. This model of NIS makes possible effective use of the S&T and industrial potential in the framework of co-operation and integration of stakeholders in the innovation process. It provides the permanence of the formation of the innovation cycle: from a scientific ideas and development of technology to the organisation of an industrial base, production, and promotion of innovation products to domestic and foreign markets. Institutionally, this NIS model has proposed a mechanism for organising an innovative economy based on a new technological structure whose growth points are produced by network structures.