INNOVATIVE ECONOMY: METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS
The article considers the innovative development as a main factor enabling the social-economic environment formation that offers a high rate of economic growth, gives the opportunity to solve complex scientific and engineering problems, implement the increasing role of human capital, to expand the market of intellectual products. The article shows the ratio of spontaneous and conscious in formation of innovative economy in the historical aspect, revealed the growing influence of conscious factors on socio – economic processes. The paper examines the concept of «virtual economy» and «virtual capital» and reveals the contradictions associated with their effects on the real economic life.