Ecological imperative of innovative functioning of the industrial sector of the economy
The parallel functioning of innovative and sustainable development strategies leads to the emergence of a formal methodological paradox in the form of an increasing negative technological impact on the environment due to the prevalence of economic criteria for evaluating production efficiency over social ones. This paradox determines the permanent growth of products that can be combined by the concept of «waste». To eliminate the methodological paradox, it is necessary to implement the environmental imperative by greening the regulatory framework governing all stages of the life cycle of innovative products.